114 King & Gamble—- JPZora of the Malayan Peninsula, [No. 3, 



Wall. Cat. 8440 belongs here. 



6. Lasianthds RHiNOCEROTis Blume Bijdr. 996. A sbrub or small 

 tree ; young branches rather thinner than a goose-quill, covered like 

 the petioles with dense short rusty- tomentum. Leaves coriaceous, nar- 

 rowly oblong-lanceolate, acute, the base rounded ; upper surface glab- 

 rous, the midrib depressed when dry, the nerves depressed, the veins 

 inconspicuous ; lower surface everywhere hairy, the 10 to 12 bold oblique 

 ascending little-curved main-nerves and the stout midrib tomentose ; 

 the prominent transverse veins pubescent and the interspaces puberu- 

 lous; length 4 to 7 in.; breadth 1'5 to 2*25 in.; petioles "25 in. long; 

 stipules broadly triangular acute, pilose, '1 to '2 in. long. Glomeruli 

 sessile or on short pedicels, axillary, bearing very numerous narrow 

 bracts, the outer linear, the inner subulate, all softy rusty-pilose, mostly 

 •5 or '6 in. long, the inner sometimes shorter. Flowers much shorter 

 than the bracts and concealed by them, few, sessile or subsessile. 

 Gorolla with 5 deep concave lobes, pilose outside. Friiit ovoid, pointed, 

 blue, about 'IS in. long, separating into 5 three-cornered pyrenes. Miq. 

 PI. Jnd. Bat. II. 315. MepJiitidia rhinocerotis DO. Prod. 453; Korthals 

 in Ned. Kruidk. Arch. II. 220. 



Petiak : at elevations of 4500 feet and upwards. Scortechini 532, 

 537 ; Wray 237 ; King's Collector 3209, 3809. Selangor : Kelsall 1993. 

 — DisTEiB. Java. 



Closely allied to L. crinitus Jack, but differing in the characters of the hairs 

 and bracts. In that species the outer bracts are much longer than the inner ; in 

 this the outer bracts are not longer and only slightly broader than the inner. 



6. Lasianthus inaeqtjalts, Blume Bijdr. 996. A shrub ; young 

 branches twice as thick as a crow-quill, densely tawny-pilose like the 

 petioles. Leaves membranous, olivaceous-green when dry, elliptic, ob- 

 lanceolate-elliptic or oblong, shortly acuminate, more or less narrowed 

 to the rounded, sometimes slightly oblique, base ; upper surface shining, 

 glabrous, except the bold pilose midrib and puberulous nerves, minutely 

 reticulate; lower surface softly and sparsely pilose; length 3 to 6*5 

 in.; breadth 1 to 2 in.; petiole '2 to '25 in.; stipules linear, pilose, '6 or 

 •7 in. long, deciduous. Glomeruli axillary, twice as long as the petioles, 

 few-flowered, the bracts broadly ovate, abruptly acuminate, bearing much 

 yellow hair, especially externally, '7 in. in length. Flowers -35 in. long, 

 sessile. Calyx campanulate, with 4 deep unequal lanceolate spreading 

 lobes. Corolla shorter than the calyx, with a short tube and 4 oblong 

 lobes, glabrous inside, but outside covered like the calyx with long 

 yellow hair. Anthers ovate, almost sessile. Fruit narrowly ovoid, sparse- 

 ly hairy, crowned by the accrescent connivent calyx-lobes ; length '35 

 in. (of which nearly half is calyx); pyrenes 4, three-sided, rugose. 



