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6 <strong>Journal</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> F.M.S. Museums. [Vol. VI,<br />
but in <strong>the</strong> type it is distinctly hairy. He gives <strong>the</strong> flowers as<br />
0*2 inch long. In Kloss's plant, where <strong>the</strong>y are fully open,<br />
<strong>the</strong>y are just twice as long, and nearh' glabrous, and <strong>the</strong> petals<br />
hardly as long as <strong>the</strong> an<strong>the</strong>rs. These differences are due, no<br />
doubt, to <strong>the</strong> young state <strong>of</strong> Wray's plant.<br />
Distrih. Hi<strong>the</strong>rto only known from Gunong Inas.<br />
MELASTOMACE.5t.<br />
14. SoNERiLA TENUiFOLiA, Biume, 111 Flova, xiv. (1831)<br />
491 [289].<br />
Distrib. Common in <strong>the</strong> hills <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Peninsula, Sumatra,<br />
Java, and Borneo.<br />
15. BlASTUS PULVERULENTUS, i^j'^/., n. Sp. [290] .<br />
Frutex ramis tenuibus. Folia ovata, acuminata, basibus<br />
cuneatis, superne glabra, 13 cm. longa, 7 cm. lata, stellatim<br />
lepidota et glandulis copiosis munita, subtus nervis prominulis<br />
3 ad basin connatis, petiolis 25 mm. longis. Cyme axillares vel<br />
subterminales, 3 cm. longae, pauciflorae. BractecB lineares, 3<br />
mm. l(jngae. Flares parvi, pedicellis 3 mm. longis. Calycis<br />
tubus sabglobosus, lobis brevibus ovatis 4. Petala 4, ovata vix<br />
longiora, glabra. Stamina 4 aequalia et similia, filamentis<br />
petala aequantibus, an<strong>the</strong>ris longioribus curvis acuminatis, basi<br />
processibiis 2 brevibus obtusis munita. Stylus breviusculus,<br />
basi stellato-pilosus.<br />
Distrib. Ulu Langat {C. B. Kloss).<br />
This species is very different in appearance from our<br />
common Blistns Cogniauxii, Stapf, both in habit and larger<br />
flowers, and more resembles an Anerincleistus, but <strong>the</strong> four<br />
similar and equal stamens distinguish it from that and allied<br />
genera.<br />
16. Medinilla Clarkei, King, in Joiirn. As. Soc. Beng.<br />
Ixix. (1900) II. 63 [290]<br />
.<br />
Distrib. Common on hills from 3,000 to 5,000 feet elevation.<br />
Malacca, Perak, Selangor.<br />
17. Medinilla Hulletth, King, I. c. 76 [290].<br />
Distrib. Also occurs in Johore.<br />
65 [290].<br />
BEGONIACEiE.<br />
18. Begonia megapteroidea, King, I. c. Ixxi. (1902) 11.<br />
Distrib. Perak.<br />
19. Begonia Klossii, Ridl., n. sp. [290].<br />
Rhizoma validum, repens, elongatum, lignosum. Folia<br />
longe petiolata, ovata, subabrupte acuminata, basibns rotundatis<br />
sequilateralibus, Integra, 11 "3 mm. longa, 5-6 cm. lata, in<br />
dorso furfuracea, aliter glabra, nervorum paribus 5 gracilibus,
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