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22. L. Loiviif nov. spec. Glabrous everywhere, except the peduncles, 

 pedicels, and bracteoles, which are puberulous ; young shoots thin, terete, 

 slightly swollen at the nodes, the bark pale brown ; leaves rigid, co- 

 riaceous, ovate-lanceolate, or elliptic-lanceolate, gradually tapering to 

 either end, the apex acute or acuminate; the edges recurved when dry ; 

 nerves invisible, midrib visible only on the pale, dull, under surface ; 

 length of blade 1'5 in. to 2 in. ; breadth '6 in., rarely "8 inch. ; petiole stout, 

 •15 in. ; racemes umbellate, in clusters of 1 to 3, in the axils of the 

 leaves, on short pedicels, 2 to 4j-flowered ; bract and bracteoles minute, 

 broadly ovate, acute, the latter united by their bases into a 3-toothed 

 cup : calyx tubular, smooth, the limb very short, truncate, waved ; 

 corolla about 1 in. long, the tube slightly curved, 6-angled and slightly 

 inflated at the junction with the limb ; lobes of the limb sub-spathulate, 

 thickened at the apex, reflexed, about a third as long as the tube ; 

 anthers about a third as long as the lobes, linear ; style filiform, nearly 

 as long as the stamens ; stigma small, sub-globular. 



Found only once in the province (by Fr. Scortechini) and the 

 exact locality not noted. 



A species, in the texture of leaves and in inflorescence, approaching 

 L. retusus, Jack ; but very distinct from that and from the other 

 Malayan species of Macrosolen. Named in honour of Sir Hugh Low, 

 British Resident in Perak. 



Section VIII. Elttranthe. 



23. L. alhidus, Bl. Bijdr. 665, and Fl. Jav. Loranth. (sub Elytranthe) 

 t. 22; Korth. Verhand. Loranth. 87; DC. Prod. IV, 299 ; Hook. fil. 

 Fl. Brit. Ind. V, 222 ; L. lecucosiphon, Griff., Notul. IV, 623, and Ic. PI. 

 Asiat. t. 619-623 : Elytranthe alhida, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. 1, 832. 



Not common ; Scortechini, Nos. 428 & and 626. This extends north- 

 wards to lower Burmah, and southwards to Malacca, Java, Sumatra, and 

 Borneo. 



Section IX, Lepiostegeres. 



24. L. Beccarii, nov. species. Glabrous ; the younger branches 

 quadrangular (at least when dry), the older branches terete; leaves on 

 rather long petioles, opposite or sub -opposite, thinly coriaceous, entire, 

 from ovate-lanceolate or ovate-oblong to sub-orbicular, very variable 

 even on the same plant, the apex sub-acute or obtuse, the base cuneate 

 or rounded, midrib prominent, especially on the under surface ; primary 

 nerves about 6 pairs, slightly visible on the under surface (when dry) ; 

 length of blade 3*5 in. to .5 in., breadth 1"5 in. to nearly 3 in. ; petiole 

 •75 in. to 1"25 in. long ; capitula from the old wood, 20 to 30-flowered, 



