422 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



minutely rusty-puberulous, nodes swollen. Leaves thinly coriaceous, 

 in whorls of 3 or opposite ; oblong-oblanceolate, shortly cuspidate- 

 acuminate at apex, narrowed at the base from above the middle ; upper 

 surface dark-olivaceous, glabrous, shining when dry, lower surface 

 almost dull, paler and in young leaves minutely puberulous especially 

 along the midrib ; margins thin, slightly recurved ; 4 to 6 in. long, 

 1-5 to 2 in. broad ; midrib stout, impressed above, raised beneath ; 

 main nerves extremely numerous, probably more than 50, but difficult 

 to distinguish from similar secondary nerves, usually at an angle of 80° 

 with the midi'ib, straight to join an intramarginal nerve at a little less 

 than -05 in. from the edge, much branched recurrently, raised on the 

 upper surface ; reticulations in a minute network ; petiole '3 to '5 in. 

 long, transversely corrugated when dry and bordered by the decurrent 

 edges of the blade. Cymes sessile, axillary, densely crowded, about 

 t\vice as long as the petioles ; bracts numerous, linear-lanceolate, 

 pubescent ; pedicels very short, bracteolate below the calyx ; buds 

 clavate, '5 in. long, tip oblong obtuse. Calyx '15 in. long, campanulate, 

 deeply cleft in 4 to 5 linear lobes, ■! in. long, pubescent outside, 

 glabrous within. Corolla-ivhe eylindric, dilated near the top opposite 

 the stamens, contracted at the mouth, which is annulately folded 

 within, pubescent within and on the upper half without, -4 in. long ; 

 lobes 4 to 5, ovate, erect or recurved, pubescent, margins incurved, 

 •15 in. long. Anthers ovate-lanceolate, apiculate, "05 in. long ; filaments 

 slender. Dish villous, appressed to the ovary. Ovary of 2 conical 

 carpels ; style very slender, -3 in. long ; stigma minute, capitate. Fruit 

 of 2, more usually 1, ellipsoid, long-pedicelled drupes, about 1 in. long 

 and -5 in. broad ; pericarp ribbed when dry, especially opposite the 

 placenta. Seed conform to the drupe ; albumen ruminate ; cotyledons 

 oblong ; radicle eylindric, rather long. 



Peeak: Scortechini ; at lower camp, Gunong Batu Poteh, Wray 

 1091 ; at Kwala Kangsa, Bidley 2895. 



Ridley's specimen is the only one with fruit and its leaves are rather thinner than 

 those of the other specimens, but otherwise it corresponds well enough. To this 

 species probably also belong Burbidge's specimens in leaf only from Borneo, and 

 Beccari's No. 333 from Sumatra, all in the Kew Herbarium. 



Species Imperfectly Known. 



8. Alyxia selangoeica, King & Gamble, n. sp. A slender climbing 

 shrub; branchlets the size of a crow-quill, pale brown, shining, angled. 

 Leaves coriaceous, opposite or in whorls of 3 to 4 ; obovate or oblanceo- 

 late, shortly and abruptly acuminate at apex, long cuneate at base ; 



