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lobes shortly free, orbicular with ciliate margins half as long as 
the petals. Corolla lobes 5 short oblong ov ate, forming a short 
broad cone in bud, corolla half an inch across w hen expanded, tube 
very short. Stamens ? length of corolla, filaments linear. An- 
thers lanceolate rather broad, not gland-dotted, base broad emargin- 
ate. 
Pahang: Kluang Terbang (Barnes 10890). 
Allied to the last species in its coriaceous finely reticulate 
leaves, and few flowers from the upper axils but this has broader 
leaves, and larger sepals, broader and shorter corolla tube. A. 
biniflora, Ridl. belongs to the same group. 
Ardisia pallidiflora, n. sp. 
Shrub, glabrous. Leaves coriaceous lanceolate ovate to ovate 
elliptic shortly acuminate narrowed at the base, 3-4 inches long 1-14 
inch wide, nerves slender 9-10 pairs, primaries edly distinct from 
the secondaries, reticulations equally conspicuous, petiole + inch 
long. Panicles on the ends of the lateral branches with few leaves, 
branchlets 3-4 short, flowers umbellate at the tips. Bracts to 
branches linear lanceolate + inch long, lower ones leaf-like. Umbels 
of 6 or more flowers on short pedicels thickened upwards 4'5 inch 
long scurfy. Bracteoles oblong lanceolate blunt half as long as the 
pedicels pustular on the edge. Calyx lobes 74 inch long lanceolate 
rather narrow, 5 covered with red and black glandular dots. 
Corolla lobes but little longer oblong truncate 5 pale pink, glan- 
dular. Stamens, anthers lanceolate nearly as long as the petals, 
bases rounded keeled on the inner face. Style little longer. 
Johore: Tempayan River (Ridley 13268). 
In dense wet forest. 
Ardisia (§ Bladhia) linearifolia, n. sp. 
A shrublet 6 to 8 inches tall, with a dusky stem, about 4 inch 
through covered above with short stiff hairs. Leaves lanceolate 
linear herbaceous light green, pale beneath, acuminate, margins 
armed with numerous short thorns undulate, glabrous above pubes- 
cent on the keel beneath, nerves about 16 pairs short nearly hori- 
zontal and meeting in large conspicuous loops; blade 5 inches long, 
half an inch wide; petiole 4 inch long dusky, pubescent. -Pseudo- 
stipules linear acuminate bodies half an inch long from the stem 
between and above the leaves. Racemes from the axils of the upper 
leaves spreading decurved, little more than half an inch long 
peduncle glabrous half an inch long bearing 3-4 flowers on short 4 
inch long pedicels. Bracts linear acuminate. Flowers very small 
hardly $ inch across. Sepals 5 triangular acute. Petals imbricate 
not contort white reddish keeled and tipped 4 inch long. Stamens 
5 whitish, filaments very short, anthers lanceolate obtuse. Style 
slender little longer white filiform. 
Province Wellesley on Gunong Bongsu, 12 miles south east 
of Bukit Mertajam and 7 miles*north west of Selama near Sungei 
R.A. Soc., No. 61, 1912. 
