152 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula . 
Malacca : Maingay (K.D.) 1016, in the mountains about 4,500 feet and 
below. 
Although Wray and Scortechini describe this more or less as a “tree,” Maingay’s 
specimen is that of a semi-herbaceous undershrub about 24 in. high, sending out roots 
from above the ground-level. 
44. Ardisia thejefolia, King & Gamble, n. sp. A small shrub 
reaching 3 feet in height; branchlets brown, smooth, the uppermost 
parts and innovations rusty-glandular-pubescent. Leaves chartaceous ; 
elliptic, long acuminate at apex, acuminate at base ; alternate or sub- 
opposite or falsely whorled ; minutely glandular- pubescent on both 
sui faces, scaly beneath; margins recurved, finely toothed except on 
the lower third and on the acumination, the teeth erect, glandular ; glan- 
dular dots very numerous and prominent on both surfaces ; 2 to 3 in. long, 
■7 to 1-2 in. broad ; midrib slender ; main-nerves 10 to 14 pairs, close', 
curved upwards to near the margin, reticulations obscure ; petiole 
•4 in. long, bordered by the decurrent margins of the blade. Inflor- 
escence a 1-5 to 2 -5 in. long panicle with short racemose branches in the 
axil of a leaf or of a subulate - 2 in. long linear abortive leaf between the 
leaves on the upper part of the branches ; branches -5 in. long, slender, 
divaricate ; bracteoles minute, linear ; flowers 2 to 5 in each raceme, 
buds ovoid. Calyx-lobes 5, rounded, -05 in. long, ciliate. Corolla-lobes 
5, white, ovate, acute or obtuse, -15 in. long, gland-dotted. Stamens as 
long as corolla-lobes; filaments very short; anthers broadly oblong, 
mucionate. Ovaty rounded, gradually produced in an erect or curved 
style, -1 in. long. Berry pyriform or nearly globose, '2 in. in diam., 
smooth, slightly ribbed when dry. 
Perak : on Ulu Batang Padang at 4,900 feet, Wray 1513 ; 
Scortechini. 
45. Ardisia odontophylla, Wall. Cat. 2279 (1829) (not of Lindl.) ; 
A. DC. Trans. Linn. Soc. XVII. 125, t. VI., Prod. VIII. 135; Clarke in 
Hook. f. PI. Br. Ind. III. 525 ; Mez Monog. Myrs. 150. A. pavonina, 
Herb. Hamilt.jMe DC.in Prod, l.c— Distrib. India(Assam andCachar). 
Var. Lobbii, Clarke in Hook. f. PI. Br. Ind. III. 526. An almost 
herbaceous undershrub reaching to about 2 feet in height, the stems 
rooting fi om nodes near the base ; bark fleshy, pale brown ; pith large ; 
upper part of stem densely fulvous-villous ; leaf-buds small, short. 
Leaves membranous, sub-opposite; elliptic or elliptic-oblong or 
obovate-lanceolate, acute at apex, cuneate at base and sometimes 
slightly rounded ; the margins sharply serrate except for a short dis- 
tance near the base ; glabrous above except on the hirsute midrib, rusty- 
tomentose beneath, the midrib and main-nerves usually ferruginous- 
