424 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



1. Eauwolfia peeakensis, King & Gamble, n. sp. A small shrub ; 

 branchlets somewhat fleshy, pale brown, as thick as a goose-quill, 

 sparsely lenticellate. Leaves fleshy in texture when green, membranous 

 when dry ; opposite or whorled, variable in size, glabrous ; lanceolate 

 or spathulate, rather long acuminate at apex, narrowly attenuate at 

 base ; bright green above turning dark brown when dry, greyish-green 

 beneath turning buif ; 4 to 8 in. long, 1 to 3 in. broad ; midrib broad, 

 often sinuous when dry ; main nerves 12 to 15 pairs, pale, starting from 

 the midrib nearly at right angles and curved upwards to and along the 

 margin ; secondary nerves and reticulations obscure ; petiole slender, 

 •5 to "75 in. long. Cymes corymbose, long-peduncled, 1 to 4 together 

 from the axils of upper leaves ; peduncle 1"5 to 3*5 long ; branches 

 dichotomous, ultimate ones subumbellate ; pedicels slender, -1 in, long, 

 •25 in. fruit ; bracts minute, triangular, caducous. Calyx-lohea ovate- 

 acuminate, "06 in. long, glabrous. CoroUa-tuhe slender, -3 to "5 in. 

 long, tubular, inflated towards the top, glabrous on both sides ; lobes 

 ovate, blunt, about -1 in. long. Disk annular, -04 in. long. Stamens 

 short, blunt ; anthers as long as the filaments. Ovary rounded ; style 

 filiform -15 to "2 in. long ; stigma cylindric-calyptriform. Drupes 

 crimson, connate only at the base, obliquely ovate, "5 in. long, -25 in. 

 broad, flattened; exocarp fleshy. Pyrenes crustaceous, prominently 

 rugose ; albumen thin ; cotyledons ovate ; radicle as long as cotyledons, 

 together -25 to "3 in. long. 



Peeak: Scortechini 920, 1161, 8410; Wray 3692; Bidley 2898, 

 5523. Pahang : Bidley 1166. 



This species is very near R. densiflora, Benth., of Ceylon, S. India, and the 

 Khasia Hills, but differs in the much shorter calyx-lobes, the narrower corolla-tube, 

 and the flattened drupes. From 11. serpentina, Benth., it differs in the veins of the 

 leaves starting nearly at right angles instead of obliquely, and in the larger, usually 

 more separated and flatter drupes and more pitted pyrenes 



2. Eauwolfia sumateana Jack Mai. Misc. 22 (1820). A small tree 

 reaching 40 to 50 feet in height, and 6 to 10 in. in diameter, with erect 

 stout branches and milky juice ; branchlets more or less quadrangular, 

 lenticellate. Leaves pergamaceous, opposite or verticillate, generally in 

 threes, sometimes in fours, elliptic-oblong to obovate-spathulate, shortly 

 acute or acuminate at apex, long-attenuate at base ; margins entire, 

 slightly reflexed ; both surfaces glabrous, the lower pale ; 6 to 8 in. 

 long, 2 to 3 in. broad ; midrib slender, very prominent, impressed above, 

 much raised beneath ; main nerves parallel, 32 to 35 pairs, nearly at 

 right angles (80") to the midrib, then straight, joining in a looped intra- 

 marginal nerve near the edge ; secondary nerves similar but fainter, 

 usually one only between each pair of main nerves ; reticulations very 



