1904).] King & Gamble— -FZora of the Malayan Peninsula. 123 



for a verj few scattered adpressed hairs and for tlie strigose midrib ; 

 main-iierves not more than 8 pairs ; fruit crowned by calyx-lobes as long 

 as itself. 



Singapore : Ridley 5679. 



22. Lasianthus robustus, King & Gamble, n. sp. Young branches 

 terete, sub-glabrous, about as thick as a goose-quill. Leaves large, cori- 

 aceous, pale-olivaceous on both surfaces (when dry) and glabrous, oblan- 

 ceolate, much narrowed but not acute at the base ; upper surface corru- 

 gated from the depression of the nerves and veins, the midrib thin but 

 prominent ; under surface with bold large reticulations and stout midrib, 

 the 16 to 20 pairs of curved ascending main-nerves thin but prominent 

 length 8 to 12 in,; breadth 2*5 to 325 in.; petioles 4 in., stout, chan- 

 nelled ; stipules coriaceous, sagittate, pale, about '4 in. long (measured 

 to the end of the basal lobes). Cymes shorter than the petioles, con- 

 densed, ebracteate, few-flowered. Calyx shortly campanulate, glabrous, 

 about 1 in. long, the mouth with 5 or 6 obscure teeth. Corolla un- 

 known. Fruit sub-globular, 6-ridged, glabrous, crowned by the short 

 calyx-tube, -15 in. in diam., pyrenes 5 or 6. 



Malacca: (at Ayar Pannas) Ridley (without number). 

 Only a single specimen seen by rae, and that a poor one. 



23. Lasianthus coriaceus. King & Gamble, n. sp. A small foetid 

 shrub ; young branches terete or somewhat compressed, minutely pube- 

 rulous, the bark thick, pale and rugulose when dry. Leaves very coria- 

 ceous, oblong-elliptic, gradually and bluntly acuminate, the base cune- 

 ate; upper surface pale-brown when dry, everywhere glabrous, shin- 

 ing, the stout midrib and the main-nerves depressed ; lower surface 

 pale cinereous-brown, glabrous, dull ; the midrib very stout and promin- 

 ent; main-nerves 10 to 12 pairs, spreading but also ascending, ultimate- 

 ly glabrous, but like the midrib at first minutely adpressed, puberulous ; 

 intermediate nerves none, reticulations wide and indistinct; length 7 

 to 11 in.; breadth 2 5 to 3*5 in.; petiole about 4* in. stout, channelled; 

 stipules triangular acuminate, half as long as the petioles. Cymes axil- 

 lary, rather longer than the petioles, ou short peduncles, ebracteate, 

 bearing 3 to 5 sessile flowers. Calyx '15 in. long, widely tubular, trun- 

 cate. Corolla unknown. Fruit (flde Scortechini) deep purple, '25 in. 

 in diam., minutely hairy, crowned by the truncate, entire or faintly 4- 

 toothed calyx-limb ; pyrenes 4. 



Perak: Scortechini 332. Selangor: Ridley 10217, 8540 in part. 



This is very like L. pergamaceus K. & G., which however is a tree with very 

 thick leaves indistinctly veined. 



24. Lasianthus pergamaceus. King & Gamble, n. sp. A tree; young 



