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Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
Penang: Wallich 2291 ; Curtis 668 ; Ridley 7093. Perak: King's 
Collector 5624, 5913, 5929, 6185, 8218, 10504. Province Wellesley: 
Ridley 6953. — Distrib. Andamans or Tenasserim, Heifer (K.D.) 3571, 
3585 ; Borneo. 
26. Ardisia Scortechinii, King & Gamble, n. sp. A tree reaching 
40 to 50 feet in height and 8 to 12 in. in diam. ; branchlets round, dark 
brown, lentieellate, leaf-buds acuminate. Leaves entire, coriaceous ; 
obovate, acute at apex, cuneate at base; glabrous, margins incurved; 
glandular dots many, obscure; 5 to 7 in. long, P5 to 2 in. broad; midrib 
prominent slender ; main-nerves 14 to 16 pairs, very oblique, at about 
30° to the midrib, curved upwards and joining parallel to the margin ; 
secondary nerves similar but more slender, reticulations curved, 
surrounding the dots ; petiole ‘4 in., rather broadly edged by the 
decurrent margins of the blade, which are nearly connivent above ; 
stipules leafy, more or less persistent. Inflorescence 2 in. long, of short 
axillary peduncled, umbellate racemes 8-12-flowered, in the axils of 
short leafy bracts; peduncles thick, about 1 in. long, flattened ; pedicels 
•5 in., thickened and longer in fruit ; bracteoles ovate, acute, boat-shaped, 
deflexed, persistent; flowers reddish-pink. Calyx-lobes orbicular, obtuse, 
■2 to '25 in. long, emarginate, ciliate, scarious on the edges, with many 
parallel veins and many prominent round or oblong mixed black and 
brown glandular dots ; tube short. Corolla-lobes ovate, acute, oblique, 
•35 in. long, unequal, with very few dots, some round some lineolate, 
tube very short. Stamens shorter than corolla-lobes ; anthers long 
acuminate, villous on the connective on both sides, back marked with 
large black glands ; filaments short, very thick. Ovary ovoid, sur- 
mounted by the conical, subulate, -2 in. long, glabrous style. Berry 
globose, smooth, -3 in. in diam., bluish black. 
Perak : Scortechini ; King’s Collector 4662, 4672 — on rich soil, in 
dense jungle, up to 800 feet. 
27. Ardisia pendula, Mez Monog. Myrs. 125 (1901). Apparently a 
shrub ; branchlets thick, glabrous below, ferruginous-pubescent at the 
extremities, leaf-buds lanceolate, ferruginous-pubescent. Leaves charta- 
ceous ; elliptic lanceolate, long acute at apex, cuneate at base ; entire but 
sometimes very faintly crenate near the apex ; glabrous above, glabrous 
or slightly ferruginous-pubescent beneath; glandular dots scattered, 
more numerous and prominent near the margins ; 4 to 7 in. long, 1'5 to 
2 in. broad; midrib slender; main-nerves 10 to 12 pairs, irregular, 
starting from the midrib at about an angle of 60°, then arching upwards 
and joining near the margin ; secondary nerves slender, minor nerves 
reticulate ; petiole ’3 to -5 in. long, winged by the decurrent edges of the 
blade. Inflorescence of 3 to 5 in. long axillary peduncled ferruginous- 
