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Var. angusta, Clarke, l.c. Leaves narrowly lanceolate ; flowers in 
a simple umbellate raceme, pedicels divaricate, buds obtuse. 
Malacca : Griffith (K.D.) 3584. 
41. Ardisia rosea, King & Gamble, n. sp. A small shrub reaching 
4 to 6 feet in height ; branchlets divaricate, purplish-brown when dry, 
glabrous ; buds lanceolate. Leaves membranous ; elliptic, cuspidately 
acuminate at apex, cuneate at base ; broadly crenate with shallow 
crenatures and prominent glands, the margin recurved ; glabrous on 
both surfaces ; glandular dots extremely numerous, prominent on the 
under surface which is paler than the upper when dry ; 2 to 4 in. 
long, 1 to 1-5 in. broad ; midrib slender ; main-nerves obscure, 8 to 12 
pairs, iiregular, branching and usually ending in the crenature-glands ; 
secondary nerves and reticulations indistinct ; petiole red, slender, 
•25 to -5 in. long, bordered by the decurrent crisped margins of the 
blade. Inflorescence a corymbiform terminal or pseudo-terminal panicle 
of umbellate racemes, the branches divaricate, minutely rusty-pube- 
scent ; common peduncle, above the last leaf, short, about -05 in. ; 
blanch peduncles slender, - 5 to 1 in. long; pedicels slender, - 2 to '4 in. 
long, up to '5 in. long in fruit, flattened in flower ; flowers in each 
umbel about 12, usually recurved ; buds ovoid, acute. Calyx-lobes 5, 
triangular-ovate, '05 in. long, glabrous, not glandular ; tube as long 
as lobes, lobes reflexed in fruit. Corolla-lobes waxy-white tinged 
with pink, or pink only, ovate-acuminate, - 2 in. long, much twisted to 
the left, not glandular. Stamens nearly as long as corolla-lobes; 
filaments slender, -05 in. long ; anthers ovate, blunt, -1 in. long, with 
very few glands. Ovary rounded, glabrous ; style filiform, -15 in. long. 
Beiiy black, globose, - 25 in. in diam., smooth, tipped with the long 
slender persistent style. 
^ Perak: Wray 32, 402; Scortechini 295, 664; Bidley 5511, 
9/20, Kings Collector 3247, 6247, 8057; in dense forests in the 
mountains from 3,000 feet elevation to the top of Gunone Batu at 
6,700 feet. 
42. Ardisia longepedunculata, King & Gamble, n. sp. A shrub ; 
branchlets slender, rusty-pubescent, divaricate. Leaves membranous ; 
oblong-lanceolate, long acuminate at apex, attenuate at base ; crenulate 
with shallow glandular crenatures, margin recurved ; glabrous on both 
surfaces, pale beneath when dry ; glandular dots many, scattered, pro- 
minent on the under surface when dry ; 4 to 6 in. long, 1-25 in. broad ; 
midrib slender ; main-nerves 12 to 16 pairs, curved upwards to and 
along the margin usually to end in the crenature-glands ; secondary 
nerves and reticulations obscure ; petiole slender, -5 in. long, bordered 
by the decur/ent crisped margins of the blade. Inflorescence a terminal 
