1904.] King & Gamble— JF/o?a of the Malayan Peninsula. 117 



both surfaces shining, boldly and transversely reticulate, the lower 

 scaberulous; main-nerves 11 to 13 pairs, curved, spreading and like the 

 midrib very prominent and minutely hispid on the lower, less prominent 

 and glabrous on the upper; length 8 to 10 in.; breadth 2 to 3*5 in.; 

 petioles '3 to '4 in. ; stipules nearly as long as the petioles, coriaceous, 

 triangular, sub-acute or blunt, partly covering the inflorescence, decidu- 

 ous. Cymes shorter than the petioles, sessile. Floivers 4 to 6, sessile, 

 surrounded at their bases by sma-ll rufescenfc fimbriate bracts much 

 shorter than themselves. Calyx '2 in. long, sessile, coriaceous, tubular, 

 with 4 small blunt teeth, slightly puberulous outside. Corolla not seen. 

 Ovary 4-celled, 4-seeded. Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. III. 187. 



Malaga : Griffith (K.D.) 2936 ; Maingay (K.D.) 867. Perak : Wray ; 

 Ridley 7190. Selangor : Ridley 4904. 



11. Lasianthus constrjctus, Wight in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. VI. 

 515. A shrub; young branches twice as thick as a crow-quill, com- 

 pressed or sub-terete, like the petioles sparsely and deciduously stri- 

 gose. Leaves membranous or thinly coriaceous, narrowly elliptic or 

 elliptic-oblong, sometimes oblanceolate-elliptic, the apex rather blunt- 

 ly acuminate, the base cuneate or rounded ; both surfaces pale-oli- 

 vaceous, minutely reticulate, and more or less shining when dry ; the 

 midrib on the lower surface minutely and sparsely strigose, other- 

 wise both glabrous ; main-nerves only 3 to 5 pairs, ascending and little 

 curved, thin but distinct; length 3*5 to 5'5 in.; breadth 1*25 to 25 in.; 

 petioles '15 to '2 in., corrugated, sparsely pubescent ; stipules shorter 

 than the petioles, lanceolate, ad pressed- hairy, deciduous. Cymes ses- 

 sile, shorter than the petioles (sometimes slightly longer) condensed, 

 4- to 6-, rarely 10-flowered ; bracts minute or more usually absent, 

 Flowers small, sessile or sub-sessile. Calyx *1 to '15 in. long, thick, 

 narrowly campanulate, constricted below the 4- (rarely 3- to 5-) toothed 

 mouth ; teeth triangular, spreading, sparsely hairy. Corolla longer 

 than the calyx, funnel-shaped, glabrous outside, the tube '25 in. long, 

 villous inside, the limb as long as the tube and with 5 sub-acute lobes. 

 Fruit obliquely ellipsoid, tapering to each end, somewhat compressed, 

 4-ridged, rugulose, crowned by the small calyx, glabrous, *35 in. long ; 

 and -3 in. in diam.; pyrenes 4, sub-cylindric. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 

 188 (excl. syn. Kurz Fl. Burm.) Mephitidea sp. Griff. Notul. IV. 267 

 t. 474, fig. 4. 



Singapore: Ridley 4902. Selangor: Ridley. Burma: Griffith, 

 Perak : King's Collector 2564, 2780, 3591, 6065 ; Scortechini. Pahang : 

 Ridley 2222. Johore : Ridley 11183, 11189.— Distrib. Sumatra, Beccari 

 P.S. 952 ; Borneo, Haviland. 



12. Lasianthus singaporensis, King & Gamble n. sp. A shrub? 



