1904.] King & Gamble — Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 127 



•6 to 75 in.; petiole '15 in.; stipules lanceolate, much shorter than the 

 petioles, their edges ciliate. Cymes axillary, 2- to 3-flowered, ebracteate, 

 sessile, shorter than the petioles. Flowers about -2 in. long, sessile- 

 Calyx adpressed pubescent on both surfaces, tubular- campanulate, with 

 5 triangular-acuminate, slightly spreading teeth. Corolla slightly longer 

 than the calyx, tubular, slightly inflated below the mouth ; lobes 5, 

 lanceolate, acuminate, sub-erect ; tbe tube glabrous on both surfaces and 

 the teeth adpressed-pubescent on both. Anthers small, narrowly oblong. 

 Fruit ovoid-globular, crowned by the spreading calyx-lobes, about '2 in. 

 long ; pyrenes 4 or 5, rugulose. 



Perak : on Gunong Batu Patch at 4500 feet, Wray 413. 



31. Lasianthus oblongus, King & Gamble, n. sp. Young branches 

 slightly thicker than a crow-quill, somewhat angled, densely but very 

 minutely adpressed-pubescent. Leaves membranous, narrowly oblong- 

 lanceolate, gradually tapering into the caudate-acuminafce apex, the 

 base much narrowed ; both surfaces dark dull-brown when dry, minute- 

 ly scaly, puberulous on the nerves and midribs, obscurely transverse- 

 reticulate; main-nerves about 7 pairs, curved upwards, not conspicuous; 

 length 3 to 5 in.; breadth '6 to 1 in.; petiole *15 to '2 in.; adpressed- 

 puberulous. Stipules lanceolate-acuminate, about '1 in. long. Cymes 

 ebracteate, axillary, sessile, 5- to 7-flowered, twice as long as the peti- 

 oles. Flowers "35 in. long, on very short pedicels, adpressed-puberu- 

 lous or glabrous. Calyx campanulate, shallow, the mouth wide, trun- 

 cate, entire. Corolla more than twice as long as the calyx, salver-shaped ; 

 the tube slightly widened near the mouth ; the limb densely hirsute on 

 its upper surface, the lobes 5, oblong, obtuse. Anthers 5, oblong, sub- 

 acute, on short filaments. Fruit depressed-globular, about *2 in. in 

 diam. when dry, glabrous, 7- or 8-ridged, somewhat corrugated, crown- 

 ed by the small calyx ; pyrenes 7 or 8, each with a transverse septum 

 dividing it into two cells, the outer of which is 1 -seeded, the inner 

 empty. 



Perak: ScortecUni 265; Bidley 4935, 9702, 9729; Wray 2590; 

 JTm^/ '5 OoZZec^or 402, 4128, 4462, 10082; Curtis 2018. Selangor : Rid- 

 ley 7438. 



This closely resembles a specimen in Herb, Kew (Horsfield Rub. 52) doubtful- 

 ly named Lasianthus sylvestrs Miq., but in that the calyx has 5 distinct triangular 

 acute teeth, 



32. Lasianthus montanus, King & Gamble, n. sp. A bush 4 to 8 

 feet high; young branches slightly thicker than a crow-quill, rather 

 minutely adpressed-pilose like the stipules. Leaves thickly sub-coria- 

 ceous, ovate-lanceolate, shortly acuminate, the base cuneate ; both 

 J. ir. 17 



