260 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
petiole very short, scarcely 1—2 mm. long. Flowers in axillary 
racemes, 1—2 cm. long, puberulous, gradually elongating, on slender 
peduncles 1 cm. long; pedicels very short, pubescent ; flowers yellow 
or white, many, those not fruiting leaving prominent scars. Perianth 
tube slender, 6—8 mm. long: lobes 2—3 mm. long, alternately long 
and short, obtuse, incurved, glabrous. Hypogynous disk of 4 oblong 
scales, connected in pairs, I—2 mm. long. Ovary ovoid, glabrous; 
style slender; stigma globose, papillose. Drupe ovoid, red, glabrous, 
7mm. long. Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. I. 1. 879. 
KepaH. on Kedah Peak, Ridley 5482!. KeLanran: at Cam- 
posa, Ridley/. Perak: at Gunong Batu Pateh, Gunong Bubu and 
Gunong Mas, at 1300—1500 m., Wray 204!, 3834!, 4136!; tops of 
hills at 1260—1300 m., King’s Collector 2340!, 6985!; at Gunong 
Bubu, etc., Scortechini 336!, 792!; at Gunong Hijan 1800 m., Curtis 
2055!, Ridley 2900!. Panane: at Kluang Terbang and Bukit Setam- 
pat Telom, etc., Ridley 10904!, 13705!, 13796!, 16092!.—DisrTRIB. 
Java, Madura. The alpine specimens have smaller and more reddish 
leaves than those from lower levels. 
3. Wikstra@Mia RipLEyI, Gamble in Kew Bull. 200.(1912). A 
small shrub; branchlets slender, dark brown, terete, the uppermost 
puberulous. the nodes prominent. Leaves opposite, membranous ; 
lanceolate, rather obtusely acute at apex or almost acuminate, acute 
at base or somewhat rounded ; both surfaces olive-brown when dry, 
smooth, shining, glabrous; 5—1i3 cm. long, 2°5—45 cm. broad; 
midrib slender; main nerves about 8—10 pairs, obscure, irregular, 
oblique, with intervening occasional secondary nerves ; reticulation 
obscure; petiole very short, 2—3 mm. long. Flowers yellow, in 
terminal few-flowered (5—6) fascicles, on peduncles about 5 mm. 
long; pedicels very short, pubescent. Persanth-tube slender, 
elongate, up to 10 mm. long, glabrous; lobes ovate, 4 mm. long, 
subequal. Stamens inserted below the throat of the tube, the two 
rows 2—}3 mm. apart: filaments very short; anthers oblong, 1:5 mm. 
long. Hypogynous disk of 4 linear lobes, in two combined pairs, 1—2 
mm. long, hyaline. Ovary obovoid, hirsute at apex; style slender; 
stigma large, papillose. Druwpe with red fleshy pericarp, 6—7 mm. 
long, 5mm. in diam. Seed with crustaceous outer and membranous 
inner testa; cotyledons very fleshy. 
TRINGGANU: at Pulo Katam, Ridley!. Panane: at Pekan and 
Kwala Brawas, Ridley 1583!. (all in Herb. Singap.). 
