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innovations not tawny-pubescent. Calyx-lobes more rounded and 
glabrous ; pedicels longer. 
Kedah : on Kedah Peak, Bidley 5506. 
Ridley’s No. 2673 from Tahan Woods, Pahang, is very near B. laurifolia, but the 
pedicels are much longer and the calyx-lobes not tawny-pubescent. The material is 
insufficient for description. 
8. Bassia rupicola, King & Gamble, n. sp. A tree reaching 40 to 
60 feet in height and 15 to 20 in. in diam. ; branchlets dark grey, 
marked by the prominent scars of fallen leaves, innovations puberulous ; 
leaf-bud scales ovate-lanceolate, -25 in. long. Leaves coriaceous ; obovate- 
oblong, bluntly acute at apex, cuneately attenuate at base ; dull and 
glabrous on both surfaces ; 3'5 to 5'5 in. long, 1-5 to 2 in. broad ; midrib 
thick, conspicuous ; main-nerves 8 to 10 pairs, starting at an angle of 
45° with the midrib, then curving upwards, sometimes rather indistinct, 
about - 4 in. apart; reticulations many, obscure, obliquely transverse ; 
petiole - 5 to 1 in. long, grooved above and bordered by the decurrent 
base of the blade, swollen below. Flowers fascicled, about 5 together, 
in the axils of the leaves, on small tubercles; pedicels - 15 in. long, 
ferruginous-pubescent like the calyx and buds. Calyx-lobes 4, 2 outer 
valvate; 2 inner valvate or imbricate, ovate, -2 to '25 in. long; all more or 
less recurved and ciliate at tip. Corolla tubular-campanulate, lobes and 
tube nearly equal, mouth of tube inside with a ring of soft ferruginous 
hairs; lobes oblong, ciliate at tip, sparsely hairy without, nerves spreading. 
Stamens 16, inserted above the ring of hairs in the mouth of the tube ; 
filaments slender, -05 in. long, pubescent ; anthers ovate-mucronate, tip 
ciliate, extrorse. Ovary ovoid ; style curved, -3 in. long, stigma flat, 
minute. Fruit not seen. 
Perak : in rocky creeks on Gunong Batu at 1,500 to 2,000 feet, 
King’s Collector 7411. 
9. Bassia perakensis, King & Gamble, n. sp. A tree reaching 
60 to 80 feet in height and a considerable girth ; branchlets thick, 
dark grey, prominently marked by the scars of fallen leaves and the 
tubercles on which the flower fascicles grew. Leaves coriaceous ; oblong 
or obovate-oblong, shortly and abruptly acuminate at apex, acuminately 
narrowed at base ; margins recurved, glabrous on both surfaces ; 4 to 
6 in. long, 1'5 to 2-5 in. broad; midrib stout, prominent ; main-nerves 
slender, indistinct, 14 to 18 pairs, starting at an angle of 50° with the 
midrib, parallel, straight at first, arching near the margin to join in an 
intra-marginal looped nerve which is also met by the secondary nerves 
between the main ones ; reticulations faintly marked on both surfaces ; 
petiole -75 to 1 in. long, rather thick, bordered above by the deeurrent 
