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Malacca : Griffith (K.D.) 3679 ; Maingay (K.D.) 1022 ; Cuming 
2318; Ridley 3284, 10731. Pahang: a common bush on the sandy 
heaths, Ridley in Trans. Linn. Soc. Ser. 2. III. 319. Singapore : 
Wallich 2813 ; Walker 183 ; Ridley 3616a, 8420 ; King's Collector 
1138; Murton 62. — Distrib. Malay Islands. 
Species Imperfectly Known. 
3. Olea platycarpa, King & Gamble, n. sp. A small tree with 
spreading branches, reaching 25 to 30 feet in height ; branchlets 
stout, pale brown, smooth, marked by the prominent horse-shoe- 
shaped scars of fallen leaves. Leaves coriaceous ; obovate - oblong 
or oblong-lanceolate, abruptly acuminate at apex, cuneate at base; 
glabrous on both surfaces and with scattered glands ; margins entire, 
slightly recurved ; 8 to 14 in. long, 3 to 5 in. broad ; midrib very 
stout and prominent ; main-nerves 14 to 16 pairs, curving upwards to 
join in a looped intramarginal nerve close to the margin ; secondary 
nerves few ; reticulations irregular, obscure ; petiole 1 in. long, base 
enlarged, wrinkled. Flowers dioecious, in extra-axillary, sessile, 
paniculate, trichotomous cymes, usually on old wood, 1 to 1'5 in. 
long, supported by a cluster of sheathing scarious bracts; bracts of 
panicle branches and bracteoles ovate-acute ; pedicels very short, stout, 
somewhat angular. Calyx short, ‘05 in. long ; teeth (in 5 flowers) 
ovate, obtuse, ciliate. Corolla none in ? , g not seen. Ovary conical, 
rugose ; style 0 ; stigma 2-lobed, mitriform. Drupe ovate-oblong, 
flattened, -7 in. long, -5 in. broad ; exoearp thick, wrinkled when dry ; 
endocarp thick, granular; cells 2. Seed' 1, pendulous from the summit 
of the thin central persistent septum ; testa membranous ; albumen 
thick, fleshy ; cotyledons ovoid, T5 in. long, radicle rather stout. 
Perak: at low levels on the hills, King's Collector 5541, 7649; 
Hervey. 
The absence of male flowers renders the identification of the genus of this plant 
somewhat uncertain, but we consider it belongs rightly to Olea. 
4. Olea ardisioides, King & Gamble, n. sp. A small tree ; branches 
slender, terete, with yellowish bark ; branchlets minutely pubescent. 
Leaves coriaceous ; lanceolate, long acuminate at apex, cuneate at base ; 
glabrous on both surfaces ; margins entire, recurved ; 2 to 3 in. long, 
•6 to -1 in. broad ; midrib slender, impressed above, raised beneath ; 
main-nerves 5 pairs, curving upwards to meet in a looped intramarginal 
nerve, obscure ; secondary nerves and reticulations very obscure ; 
petiole slender, -1 to -2 in. long. Flowers in axillary or extra-axillary 
