iOO King & Gamble— i^Zom of the Malayan Pemnsida. [No. 3, 



lower puberulous on the midrib, otherwise glabrous, laxly reticulate ; 

 midrib bold on both surfaces ; main-nerves 6 or 7 pairs, oblique, bold 

 on the lower surface, faint on the upper; length 3*5 to 5*5 in.; breadth 

 1*5 to 2*5 in. ; petiole '2 to "25 in. Stipules very short, connate into a- 

 sheath ; mouth with short bristles. Cymes one to three at the apices of 

 the branches, about 1 in. long (longer in fruit), laxly 3-flowered, the 

 peduncle angled, puberulous, with small lanceolate bracteoles in whorls. 

 Flowers '5 in. long; their pedicels about the same. Calyx funnel- 

 shaped ; the mouth with 4 deep linear-] anceolate spreading lobes. Corolla 

 twice as long as the calyx, tubular, expanding at the mouth ; lobes 4, 

 oblong, blunt; throat with a ring of hairs. Stamens 4, included. An- 

 thers curved, oblong ; their filaments attached to the tube. Dish coni- 

 cal. Ovary 2-celled, 2-ovuled. Fruit ellipsoid, smooth, '65 in. long ; the 

 remains of the calyx '2 in. long, blue when ripe. Seed solitary. 

 Peeak: Scortechini 511, 670 ; Kiiigs Collector 4138, 5020. 

 3. Saprosma ternatum. Hook. fil. in Bth. & Hook. fil. Gen. Plant. 

 II. 131; Fl. Br. Ind. III. 193. A glabrous shrub; youug branches 

 rather thinner than a goose-quill, pale when dry, compressed. Leaves 

 often in whorls of three, thickly membranous, elliptic or elliptic-lanceo- 

 late, rarely oblanceolate-elliptic, shortly and rather abruptly acuminate, 

 the base cuneate ; both surfaces pale-brown when dry, the upper shin- 

 ing ; the lower dull and paler; main-nerves 7 to 9 pairs, oblique, little 

 curved, pale and prominent on the lower surface, the reticulations trans- 

 verse and rather distinct on the lower surface only; length 4 to 8 in.; 

 breadth 1*5 to 325 in.; petioles '4 to 6 in. long, with many short un- 

 equal bristles at their bases and inside the connate setosely-toothed 

 stipules. Cymes solitary or fascicled, from 1*5 to 3*5 in. long, (longer 

 in fruit) axillary, pedunculate, or branching from the base ; the branches 

 lax, spreading, sparsely flowered ; the bracteoles few, linear. Flowers '4 

 in. long, on pedicels varying from '2 to '6 in. long. Calyx 1 in. long, 

 shortly carapanulate, the mouth wide and with 4 broad blunt teeth. Co- 

 rolla '3 in. long, salver-shaped, puberulous ; the tube wide ; the limb 

 •35 in. across with 4 or 5 broad reflexed lobes. Fruit ovoid or sub- 

 globular, crowned by the rather large calyx-teeth, '35 in. in diam.; 1- 

 seeded ; seeds ellipsoid. Kurz. For. Fl. Burma II. 29. Paederia ternatay 

 Wall. Cat. 6248 Roxb. Fl. Ind., ed. Carey & Wall., 11.520; DC. Prod. 

 IV. 471. MepUtidea sp.. Griff. Notul. IV. 267 ; Ic. PI. Asiat. t. 476. 



Perak : Scortechini 1163 ; Wray 2262, 2907, 2929, 3943 ; King's 

 Collector 1975, 2764, 3052, 4006, 4069, 6760, 8491. Pahang: Ridley 

 2225. Selangor : Ridley 8236. — Distrib. Andaman Islands, Burma, 

 Kiiasia Hills, Sumatra, Java. 



4. Saprosma Ridleyi, King & Gamble. A shrub ? Young branches 



