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coriaceous, oblanceolate-elliptio, shortly acuminate, the base acute ; 

 both surfaces pale-brown tinged with olivaceous ; the upper quite glab- 

 rous, often rugulose from the depression of the nerves and reticulations ; 

 the midrib not depressed but channelled near the base ; under-surface 

 paler, the bold midrib, nerves and veins, and their interspaces in a less 

 degree pubescent ; length 8 to 12 inches ; breadth 3 to 4 in. ; petioles 

 •3 to '5 in., winged above ; stipules broadly triangular, obtuse or acute, 

 coriaceous, partly covering the inflorescence when young, more or less 

 persistent. Glomeruli somewhat longer than the petioles, hemispheric, 

 condensed, many-flowered ; flowers sessile, '2 in. long, imbedded amongst 

 numerous linear densely hirsute bracts somewhat longer than them- 

 selves. Oalyx tubular-campanulate or campanulate, narrowed to the 

 base, glabrous except the hirsute ovate or lanceolate lobes. Corolla in 

 the perfect flowers 3 in. long, salver-shaped, the tube narrow, glabrous 

 except the villous throat ; the limb with 5 narrowly lanceolate hirsute 

 reflexed lobes. Anthers 5, exserted beyond the dense villous hairs of the 

 throat, linear-oblong ; filaments short. In cleistogamic flowers (which 

 are numerous) the corolla smaller than the calyx but resembling it, 5 or 

 6 lobed. Fruit glabrous, ovoid, crowned by the slightly accrescent 

 calyx-lobes, about 2 in. long ; pyrenes 5. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 179. 



Malacca: Griffith (K.D.) 2935. Johore : Ridley 11177, 11179. 

 Singapore: Ridley 4il2l. Perak : King*s Collector 4i96. — Distrib. Bor- 

 neo ; Haviland 84. 



var. latibracteata, King & Gamble ; bracts of inflorescence broad, 

 obtuse, glabrous outside, hirsute inside, shorter than the flowers, often 

 becoming thick, white and polished when old, persistent. 



Selangor: Ridley 10196. Perak: Ridley 9^28) Soortechini 612. 



3. Lasianthus stipularis, Blume Bijdr. 997. A slender shrub 3 

 to 6 feet high ; all parts except the bracts and lobes of corolla inside 

 glabrous : young branches half as thick as a goose-quill, dark-coloured 

 when dry, smooth. Leaves membranous, oblong-lanceolate, shortly and 

 rather abruptly cordate-acuminate, narrowed from below the middle to 

 the short petiole; both surfaces pale-brown when dry, glabrous, the 

 upper shining ; main-nerves 9 to 12 pairs, curved, rather distinct on 

 both surfaces, the midrib grooved on the upper, prominent on the lower 

 surface; the main-nerves distinct on both ; length 5 to 7 in.; breadth 

 1-5 to 2 in.; petioles '25 to '35 in. long. Stipules broadly ovate-cordate, 

 sub-acute, "5 to '6 in, long, completely covering the inflorescence. Floiv- 

 ers nearly '3 in. long, on very short flat pedicels, surrounded by numer- 

 ous unequal narrowly lanceolate densely hirsute bracts longer than 

 themselves. Calyx campanulate, ridged ; the mouth with 4 or 5 broadly 

 triangular acute teeth. Corolla thrice as long as the calyx ; the tube 



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