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Penang : Curtis 1451, 3536. Pebak : Wray 512, Vern. “ Gutta 
Gannu ” ; Scortecliini 1408. 
This species comes near both to B. Motleyana, from which it differs in having 
more coriaceous leaves, larger flowers, and a pubescent fruit ; and to B. cuneata, in 
which the leaves (judging from the poor specimens in Kew Herbarium) are thinner 
and the fruit larger and nearly glabrous, with more rounded seeds and a broad 
hilum. 
7. Bassia laurifolia, King & Gamble, n. sp. A tree reaching 
■60 feet in height and a diam. of 12 to 18 in. ; branches spreading ; 
branchlets pale brown, rather thick, innovations densely pubescent 
with yellowish-tawny hairs. Leaves chartaceous ; obovate-lanceolate, 
gradually acuminate at apex, also at base ; glabrous on both surfaces 
except on the sides of the midrib beneath ; 5 to 10 in. long, 1-5 to 
3'5 in. broad ; midrib prominent, impressed and keeled above ; main- 
nerves prominent, regular, 14 or 15 pairs, about - 3 in. apart, starting at 
about 45° with the midrib, gradually curving upwards ; reticulations 
obliquely transverse, faintly marked ; petiole ’75 to 1 in. long, slender, 
glabrous above, tawny-pubescent at base, bordered by the decurrent 
margins of the blade and marked above by the produced keel of the 
midrib ; stipules linear-subulate, tawny-pubescent, nearly - 5 in. long, 
very caducous. Flowers fascicled, about 6 together, on hairy tubercles 
in the axils of the leaves or of the scars of fallen leaves near the top of 
the branchlets; pedicels -4 to '5 in. long, usually recurved, densely 
tawny-pubescent, thicker in fruit ; buds small, conical. Calyx-lobes 4, 
about - 2 in. long, rather narrowly ovate; the outer pair obtuse; the inner 
acute, all densely tawny-pubescent without, glabrous within. Corolla 
campanulate ; tube '05 in. long with a ring of hairs at the mouth inside ; 
lobes 8, oblong-spathulate, '1 in. long, glabrous. Stamens 14 to 16, - 1 in. 
long ; filaments short, thickly hairy ; anthers linear-sagittate, the con- 
nective produced in a long sharp acumen. Ovary rounded, glabrous ; 
style slender, -3 in. long ; cells apparently 8. Fruit a black glabrous 
oblong berry about -6 to '7 in. long and -4 in. broad. Seed 1, ovoid, 
*5 to '6 in. long, slightly compressed ; testa thin, crustaceous, shining, 
dark brown ; hilum broad ; albumen none ; cotyledons oblong, fleshy, 
about ‘3 in. long and nearly -2 in. broad ; radicle inferior, rather large. 
Pebak : on low ground, King’s Collector 3104, 3718, 3720. 
Vak. obtusa, King & Gamble. Leaves obtuse with an abrupt 
acumen. Calyx-lobes obtuse, thickened at tip. Corolla-lobes ciliate 
at the apex, glandular-striate ; anthers and produced connective very 
hirsute. 
Penang : Curtis 159, 2254, 3589 — a small tree, fairly common. 
Var. parvifolia, King & Gamble. Leaves smaller than in type ; 
