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innovations not tawny-pubescent. Calyx-lobes more rounded and 

 glabrous ; pedicels longer. 



Kedah : on Kedah Peak, Bidley 5506. 



Eidley's No. 2673 from Tahan Woods, Pahang, is very near B. laurifolia, but the 

 pedicels are much longer and the calyx-lobes not tawny-pubescent. The material is 

 insufficient for description. 



8. Bassia rupicola, King & Gamble, n. sp. A tree reaching 40 to 

 60 feet in height and 15 to 20 in. in diam. ; branchlets dark grey, 

 marked by the prominent scars of fallen leaves, innovations puberulous ; 

 leaf-bud scales ovate-lanceolate, '25 in. long. Leaves coriaceous; obovate- 

 oblong, bluntly acute at apex, cuneately attenuate at base ; dull and 

 glabrous on both surfaces ; 3'5 to 5-5 in. long, 1-5 to 2 in. broad ; midrib 

 thick, conspicuous ; main-nerves 8 to 10 pairs, starting at an angle of 

 45° with the midrib, then curving upwards, sometimes rather indistinct, 

 about "4 in. apart; reticulations many, obscure, obliquely transverse ; 

 petiole "5 to 1 in. long, grooved above and bordered by the decurrent 

 base of the blade, swollen below. Flowers fascicled, about 5 together, 

 in the axils of the leaves, on small tubercles; pedicels 45 in. long, 

 ferruginous-pubescent like the calyx and buds. Calyx-lobes 4, 2 outer 

 valvate; 2 inner valvate or imbricate, ovate, "2 to '25 in. long; all more or 

 less recurved and ciliate at tip. Corolla tubular-campanulate, lobes and 

 tube nearly equal, mouth of tube inside with a ring of soft ferruginous 

 hairs; lobes oblong, ciliate at tip, sparsely hairy without, nerves spreading. 

 ■Stamens 16, inserted above the ring of hairs in the mouth of the tube ; 

 filaments slender, -05 in. long, pubescent ; anthers ovate-mucronate, tip 

 ciliate, extrorse. Ovary ovoid; style curved, -3 in. long, stigma flat, 

 minute. Fruit not seen. 



Perak : in rocky creeks on Gunong Batu at 1,500 to 2,000 feet. 

 King's Collector 7411. 



9. Bassia pekakensis. King & Gamble, n. sp. A tree reaching 

 60 to 80 feet in height and a considerable girth ; branchlets thick, 

 dark grey, prominently marked by the scars of fallen leaves and the 

 tubercles on which the flower fascicles grew. Leaves coriaceous ; oblong 

 or obovate-oblong, shortly and abruptly acuminate at apex, acuminately 

 narrowed at base ; margins recurved, glabrous on both surfaces ; 4 to 

 6 in. long, 1-5 to 2-5 in. broad; midrib stout, prominent ; main-nerves 

 slender, indistinct, 14 to 18 pairs, starting at an angle of 50° with the 

 midrib, parallel, straight at first, arching near the margin to join in an 

 intra-marginal looped nerve which is also met by the secondary nerves 

 between the main ones ; reticulations faintly marked on both surfaces ; 

 petiole •75 to 1 in. long, rather thick, bordered above by the decurrent 



