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tree ; young branches rather thinner than a goose-quill, pale brown 
when dry, slightly pubescent. Leaves coriaceous, glabrous, oblong- 
elliptic, the apex sub-acute, narrowed from about the middle to the 
acute or rounded base ; both surfaces dull brown when dry and minutely 
reticulate, the lower pale ; main-nerves 15 to 18 pairs, slightly curved, 
spreading, indistinct on the upper surface, rather distinct on the lower; 
the midrib very bold and prominent on the lower surface, faint and 
depressed on the upper ; length 3’5 to 6 in. ; breadth 1 to 2 in. ; petiole 
■75 to 1 in. long, stout. Umbels shortly stalked, 3- to 8-flowered ; 
flower-pedicels unequal, -75 to 135 in. long, stout, glabrous. Flowers 
unknown. Calyx cupular, '1 in. deep, the mouth wavy. Ovary densely 
rufescent-pubescent. Capsule -4 to -7 in. long, rusty-pubescent, very 
slightly ridged, dehiscing by 5 straight valves, crowned by the persistent 
pubescent style. 
Perak, at an elevation of 3,400 feet : Wray 233, 460 : Scortechini 
367. 
5. Pernettyopsis, King & Gamble, nov. gen. 
Small rigid epiphytic shrubs. Leaves alternate, on short hispid 
petioles, minutely sub-crenulate, coriaceous, persistent. Flowers soli- 
tary or in pairs, axillary, with 2 (rarely 3) rather large bracts at their 
bases forming an involucre ; pedicels decurved in fruit. Calyx larger 
than the corolla, rotate, deeply 5-partite, persistent and unchanged in 
fruit. Corolla urceolate or ovoid, glabrous, the mouth constricted and 
with 5 short reflexed teeth. Stamens 10, free, included, the filaments 
slightly attached by their somewhat dilated bases to the bottom of the 
corolla-tube. Anthers short, inappendiculate at the back or base, 
oblong, the apices prolonged into 2 long porously dehiscing tubes. 
Ovary faintly 5-lobed, 5-celled ; style columnar ; stigma simple ; ovules 
numerous, the placentas on the inner angles of the loculi. Berry 
globose, 5-celled. Seeds minute, compressed, numerous, angled ; testa 
crustaceous. — Distrib. Species 2, both Malayan. 
Calyx densely rusty-tomentose . . . . . . . . 1. P. malayana. 
Calyx glabrous except the tips of the lobes . . . . . . 2. P. sub-glabra. 
1. Pernettyopsis malayana, n. sp., King & Gamble. Epiphytic; 
a bush a foot or two in height ; young branches half as thick as a 
goose-quill, sparsely clothed near their apices with flat adpressed black 
bristles less than -1 in. long. Leaves thickly coriaceous, rotund, obovate 
to elliptic, the apex broad, minutely apiculate, the base slightly nar- 
rowed ; upper surface olivaceous T brown when dry, shining, the midrib 
and main-nerves deeply depressed, the reticulations less so ; lower 
