80 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
surface pale dull-brown, with sparse pits, each bearing a short adpressed 
dark hair, the edges wavy, sub-serrate and adpressed-ciliate ; main- 
nerves 2 or 3 pairs, curving upwards and inwards and interarching, 
thick but faint on the lower surface ; length l - 25 to 2 in. ; breadth 
75 to 1-35 in. ; petioles '1 to -2 in., adpressed-bristly. Flowers 
solitary or in pairs, - 4 or - 5 in. long, axillary, pedicellate, the pedi- 
cels -3 to -4 in. long, twice as long (or more) in fruit, densely rusty- 
tomentose and recurved when young, erect and less woolly when old. 
Involucral bracts usually 2, thick, about - 2 in. long, broad, glabrous 
inside, rusty-tomentose outside. Calyx larger than corolla, rotate, 
deeply divided into 5 lanceolate, somewhat spreading, lobes ; rusty- 
tomentose outside and sub-glabrous inside. Corolla a little shorter 
than the calyx, glabrous, ovoid-globular, its mouth contracted and with 
5 short reflexed teeth. Stamens 10, shorter than the corolla, and 
inserted near its base ; anthers oblong, broad, cordate and inappendicu- 
late at the base ; the apex prolonged into 2 white apically porous tubes ; 
filaments short, bent. Ovary sub-globular, laxly and deciduously 
tomentose, 5-celled ; ovules numerous, oblong-concave, attached by the 
middle to the axillary placentas ; style cylindric, slightly grooved, 
twice as long as the corolla. Fruit a berry with scanty pulp, blue 
when ripe, the seeds red. 
Perak, at elevations of about 6,500 feet, on the summit of Gunong 
Batu Pateh : Scortechini 402 ; Wray 312. 
2. Pernettyopsis sub-glabra, n. sp., King & Gamble. A 
small, rigid, epiphytic shrub ; young stems slightly thicker than a 
crow-quill, with a few adpressed bristles near the ends, otherwise 
glabrous. Leaves coriaceous, sub-rotund to elliptic-rotund, minutely 
apiculate ; upper surface dull-brown, minutely reticulate, glabrous, the 
lower reddish-brown, with a few small adpressed hairs with black 
bases ; main-nerves 3 or 4 pairs, curving upwards, deeply depressed 
on the upper surface like the midrib, less so on the lower ; the 
edges minutely sub-serrate and sparsely adpressed-ciliate ; length -8 to 
1-5 in.; breadth -75 to 1-25 in. ; petiole -15 to -25 in. long, adpressed- 
bristly. Bracts under the flower 2 or 3, broad, rusty-pubescent 
externally like the pedicel. Calyx longer than the corolla, rotate, 
with 5 deep lanceolate spreading lobes, glabrous except the rusty- 
pubescent tips. Corolla, stamens, ovary, and style as in P. malayana. 
Fruit unknown. 
Perak, at elevations of 5,000 feet : Scortechini 752 ; King’s 
Collector 7407. 
