1904.] King & Gamble — Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 119 



distinct ; main-nerves 4 to 6 pairs, oblique rather straight ; length 35 

 to 5 in.; breadth l'25to 1'85 in.; petioles '25 in.; stipules elongated tri- 

 angular, acute, about as long* as the petioles, the midrib keeled. Cymes 

 spiciform, usually about as long as the petioles, their axes somewhat 

 elongated, bearing a few broadly lanceolate, acute or acuminate bracts 

 much shorter than the 6 to 12 flowers, all parts except the inside of the 

 calyx and the corolla-tube on both surfaces covered with short rather 

 thick hair. Floioers sessile, broadly clavate in bud, under '1 in. long. 

 Calyx as long as the corolla-tube, campanulate, with 5 small, spreading, 

 triangular teeth. Corolla-tuhe much shorter than the sub-globular 

 bluntly 6-lobed limb. Anthers 5, linear, embedded in the dense white 

 hair which lines the inside of the lobes. Fruit unknown. 

 Penang: Curtis 24i76. Perak: Wray 863. 



15. Lasianthus Wrayi, King & Gamble, n. sp. A small tree; 

 young branches twice as thick as a crow-quill, slightly compressed, 

 densely adpressed-pubescent. Leaves thinly coriaceous, oblong-lanceo- 

 late, tapering much and about equally to each end ; upper surface quite 

 glabrous, shining, faintly reticulate, olivaceous-brown ; lower surface 

 darker, adpressed-pubescent on the midrib and 5 pairs of rather bold 

 ascending little-curved nerves, the connecting veins bold, horizontal, 

 puberulous, the areolae glabrous ; length 3'5 to 5 in. ; breadth '75 to 1 in. ; 

 petioles about '3 in.; stipules triangular, acuminate, much shorter than 

 the petioles. Flowers '16 in. long, two or three on a very short axillary 

 tubercle having a few short broad pubescent bracts at its base. Calyx 

 •05 in. long; sessile, campanulate, with 4 small acute teeth, adpressed- 

 hirsute like the tubular corolla; teeth of corolla blunt. Anthers 4, 

 linear-oblong, inserted by short filaments in the villous ring in the throat. 

 Fruit unknown. 



Perak : at an elevation of 4500 feet ; Wray 257. 



16. Lasianthus Kurzii, Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 183. A shrub? 

 Young branches twice as thick as a crow-quill, densely olivaceous-tomen- 

 tose like the petioles, stipules, and under surfaces of the midribs and 

 main-nerves of the leaves. Leaves thinly coriaceous, oblong, acute at 

 both ends : upper surface dark olivaceous-brown, glabrous, shining, the 

 midrib somewhat depressed (when dry) ; lower surface dark-olivaceous, 

 pubescent on the distinct horizontal veins and on the 6 or 7 pairs of 

 ascending main-nerves, also on the veins and on the interspaces ; length 

 3*5 to 4*5 in.; breadth '75 to 1*25 in.; petioles "15 to '2 in.; stipules 

 lanceolate with broad bases, shorter than the petioles. Cymes sessile, 

 condensed, few-flowered, without the corolla shorter than the petioles, 

 with the corolla longer ; bracts oblong, acuminate, few. Flowers '3 in. 



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