420 Flora of the Malayan Peninsida. 



ovate-lanceolate, "05 in. long ; filaments slender. Dish of 5 densely 

 villous scales surrounding the ovary. Ovary of 2 rounded carpels, 

 puberulous ; style slender ; stigma globose v^ith a bifid apieulus ; ovules 

 1 in each cell. Fruit of 1 or 2 very shortly pedicellate ellipsoid drupes, 

 each drupe about -5 in. long and -35 in. broad ; pericarp crustaceous, 

 striate, slightly furrow^ed on one side opposite the placenta, transversely 

 ridged within. Seed 1, grooved on one side where it is attached to the 

 placenta, "4 in. long, -25 in. broad ; testa membranous ; albumen horny, 

 deeply ruminate in horizontal lamellae ; cotyledons ovate, •! in. long ; 

 radicle cylindric, thick, '15 in. long. 



Pebak : in the mountains, at 4,500 to 5,500 feet, Wray 230, 3846, 

 4116; Scortechini ; King's Collector 7405; Cantley, at Gunong Bubu, 

 5,040 feet. 



5. Alyxia pumila. Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 635 (1882). A small 

 climbing shrub ; branchlets as thick as a crow-quill, angled, reddish - 

 brown, minutely rugose, innovations with deciduous pubescence. Leaves 

 coriaceous, opposite or in whorls of 3 ; narrowly elliptic or ovate- or 

 lanceolate-elliptic, acute or shortly subacuminate at apex, cuneate at base 

 or slightly rounded ; both surfaces glabrous except when very young, 

 upper shining dark olivaceous, lower dull and pale almost yellowish ; 

 margins recurved ; -75 to 2 in. long, -35 to '75 in. broad ; midrib rather 

 slender, impressed above, raised beneath ; main nerves 15 to 20 pairs, 

 at from 75° to 80° with the midrib, very faint on the upper surface, 

 invisible on the lower ; secondary nerves few, faint, reticulations in- 

 visible; petiole "1 to -15 in. long, stout, bordered by the decurrent 

 margins of the blade. Cymes short, axillary, 5- or 6-flowered, on -25 in. 

 long peduncles. Calyx deeply 5-lobed; lobes linear, ciliate, -05 in. long. 

 Corolla-tnhe cylindric below, dilated near the top opposite the stamens, 

 then constricted above, '2 in. long, glabrous without, pubescent within 

 below the stamens ; lobes ovate, -05 in. long, glabrous, spreading ; 

 throat not annulate. Anthers lanceolate, acute, rounded at base, "04 in. 

 long. Dt'sA; 5-lobed, white-villous. Ovary 2-carpelled ; style slender; 

 stigma oblong. Fruit of 2, usually 1, short-pedicelled ellipsoid drupes, 

 each about "4 in. long, -3 in. broad ; pericarp crustaceous, shining, 

 grooved on one side. Seed conform to the drupe, grooved on one side 

 at the attachment to the placenta ; testa thin, separated ; albumen 

 horny, ruminated in flat lamellae. 



Kedah : at Gunong Jerai, Ridley 5504. Perak : top of Batu 

 Kusan, Scortechini 1621. Malacca : Maingay (K.D.) 1053 ; on Mount 

 Ophir, Bidley 10094 ; Lohh. 



6. Alyxia Forbesii, King & Gamble, n. sp. A climbing shrub ; 

 branchlets as thick as a crow-quill, 3-angled, pale brown, shining. 



