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obianceolate, sab-acute, tapering in the lower third to the slightly- 

 rounded base ; both surfaces olivaceous when dry ; the upper glabrous, 

 shining, with the midrib and nerves slightly prominent ; the lower paler 

 with prominent transverse reticulations, downy between the veins; main- 

 nerves 8 or 9 pairs, slightly curved, ascending, thin but distinct on the 

 lower surface like the midrib; length 7 to 8 in.; breadth about 2*5 in.; 

 petiole about '2 in.; stipules linear, hirsute. Olomeruli shorter than 

 the petioles, bearing a few flowers hidden amongst numerous linear 

 bracts with many pale spreading hairs. Calyx sessile, '15 in. long, nar- 

 rowly campanulate ; the tube glabrous ; the lobes 5, acuminate, erect, 

 covered outside with long stiff white hairs. Gorolla and fruit unknown, 

 Singapore : Bidley 3620a. 



9. Lasianthus plavicans. King & Gamble, n. sp. Young branch- 

 es thinner than a goose-quill, clothed with dense short yellowish-brown 

 deciduous tomentum like the petioles. Leaves thickly membranous, 

 narrowly elliptic, the apex acuminate, the base cuneate ; upper surface 

 olivaceous-green, glabrous except the lower part of the midrib, the 

 nerves indistinct, shining ; lower surface darker and with much short 

 minute pubescence, especially on the 6 or 6 pairs of sharply ascending 

 bold main-nerves and conspicuous transverse veins; length 5 to 7 in.; 

 breadth 1'25 to 2 in.; petiole '3 to '35 in. short; stipules shorter than 

 the petioles while in flower (longer in fruit), oblong, blunt or acute, 

 adpressed to the stem, pubescent. Glomeruli about as long as the pe- 

 tioles, few-flowered, bearing numerons linear very pubescent bracts 

 shorter than the flowers. Flowers few, sessile or nearly so, '3 in. long. 

 Calyx narrowly campanulate, glabrous, constricted below the 4 large 

 triangular, spreading sparsely hirsute teeth. Corolla twice as long as 

 the calyx and exceeding the bracts, clavate in bud, glabrous outside 

 except for a few hairs on the back of the lobes, villous inside, salver- 

 shaped, the limb with 4 broad triangular teeth. Anthers 4, broadly 

 ovate, on short filaments ; style as long as the corolla. Fruit elliptic, 

 pointed towards each end, the apex crowned by the small calyx-teeth, 

 glabrous, '45 in. long, and -25 in. diam.; pyrenes 4, rugulose. 



Singapore: in the Botanical Garden jungle; Bidley 4394, 6927. 

 Perak : Scortechini. Pahang : Ridley 2223 ; King's Collector 10974. 

 VAR. suhglabra, King, hairs short, often deciduous. 

 Perak: Owr^is 1334. Selangor: Ridley 4!S9 5. 



10. Lasianthus longifolius, Wight in Oalc. Journ. Nat. Hist. VI. 

 514. Shrub or small, tree ? All parts quite glabrous ; young branches 

 as thick as a goose-quill, black when dry. Leaves coriaceous, broadly 

 or narrowly elliptic, sometimes oblong or oblanceolate-elliptic, sub- 

 acute or shortly and bluntly acuminate, much narrowed to the petiole, 



