LXXIV. RUBIACE^E. 
Lasianihus .] 
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hairy bracts. Flowers sessile. Calyx campanulate, lobes indis¬ 
tinct, blunt, pubescent. Fruit hemispheric, sub-glabrous ribbed. 
Pyrenes 5. Hab. Hill forests. Pahang, Telom; Raub (Fox¬ 
worthy). Negri Sembilan, Bukit Tangga. Perak, Goping (Kunst- 
ler); Gunong Inas (Wray). Dindings, Gunong Tungul. Penang, 
Chalet. Kelantan, Chaning (Ridley). 
Perhaps only a mountain form of L. Maingayi. 
(27) L. Curtisii King and Gamble, l.c. 128. 
Shrub. Branches slender pubescent. Leaves thickly mem¬ 
branous, lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate caudate pale, base very 
shortly narrowed, above glabrous, below pubescent on midrib; 
nerves 4 to 6 pairs, elevate, as are transverse nervules; 2*5 to 3-5 in. 
long, *35 to 1*25 in. wide; petioles -15 to *2 in. long, pubescent. 
Cymes short, sessile, 6- to 8-flowered ebracteate. Flowers sessile, '15 
to -2 in. long. Calyx cleft nearly to base into 5 linear-lanceolate 
lobes, hairy. Corolla shorter, tube stout, mouth hairy, lobes 5, 
short. Fruit ovoid-globular, pilose, *i in. long with the sepals 
as long; pyrenes 5, 3-angled. Hab. Penang, West Hill and Bukit 
Hitam (Curtis). 
(28) L. myrtifolius Ridl. Journ. F.M.S. Mus. iv. 35. 
A tall shrub; young parts pubescent. Leaves coriaceous, 
lanceolate acuminate, base cuneate; nerves and nervules elevate 
on both surfaces, glabrous above, pubescent beneath, *5 to 1 in. 
long, *25 to nearly *5 in. wide; petioles pubescent, -i in. long. 
Stipules lanceolate pubescent. Flowers very small, 1 or 2 sessile 
in a leaf axil. Bracts minute ovate. Calyx pubescent campanu-- 
late, lobes 4, blunt. Corolla -2 in. long, white, tube cylindric, 
lobes linear, 4, pubescent outside, hairy within. Hab. Pahang, 
Telom ridge 5000 ft. altitude (Ridley). 
(29) L. tomentosus Bl. Bijdr. 997; King, l.c. 130. 
Shrub. Branches, petioles, stipules densely tomentose! Leaves 
sub-coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate acuminate, base round or cuneate 
glabrous or sparsely strigose above, paler sparsely pilose beneath; 
midrib and nerves slender, elevate, 7 to 10 pairs densely pilose, 
nervules transverse, faint; 2-5 to 3-5 in. long, *5 to x in. wide; 
petioles -i to -2 in. long. Stipules triangular. Cymes condensed, 
ebracteate sessile. Calyx *1 in. long, campanulate, hairy, obscurely 
toothed. Corolla-tube wide, glabrous with a band of hairs in 
throat, lobes ovate. Hab. Lowland forest in the south. Singa¬ 
pore, Woodlands; Kranji. Johor, Batu Pahat on Bukit Banang; 
Bukit Soga; Mt. Austin; Gunong Janeng (Kelsall). Disirib. 
Java, Borneo. 
(30) L. angustifolius King and Gamble, l.c. 126. 
Small tree. Branches minutely tomentose. Leaves thick, 
membranous, narrow oblong-lanceolate caudate, base cuneate, 
glabrous above, except tomentose midrib, beneath glabrous, except 
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