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[915.] H. N. Ridley : Botany of Gunong Tahan. 149
beneath hairy with small hairs, the nerves densely covered
with longer black hairs, as are the margins of the leaf; petiole
3 inches wide, black, hairy. Panicle in fruit, terminal base
with spreading branches, hairy, 8 inches long. Fruit pink,
elongate urn-shaped, narrowed to the base, J inch long, on a
pedicel as long, glabrous.
Damp woods in the Gully and the first Padang stream
In fruit only.
Allied to 0. rosea, Ridl., of the Tahan River and Trengganu,
but differing in the rounded cordate peltate leaf-base and its
hairiness.
53. [Pachycentria speciosa, n. sp.
Epiphytic shrub, strongly woody, with a stem over a foot
tall, J inch through, bark grey, branched above, branches
knotted. Leaves fleshy coriaceous, ovate-lanceolate, narrowed
to an obtuse tip, base shortly narrowed, nerves 3, not very
conspicuous except the midrid beneath, 2-3! inches long,
I inch across, petiole f inch long; Flowers in umbelled red
peduncle f inch long,
viscid cymes, terminal on the branches ;
cyme-peduncles | inch, pedicels 5 inch, each cyme of 3 flowers.
Bracts minute, tooth-like. Calyx-tube dilate at base, over the
ovary subglobose, above a tube ending in a shortly 4-lobep
limb, constricted below, ^ inch long, red, viscid. Petals 4,
ovate, cuspidate, rose-pink, J inch long. Stamens 8, unequal, 4
short, 4 rather longer, all similar in form ; filaments linear,
long, flat; anthers yellow, C3'lindric, acuminate-arcuate, base
bifid with two short curved points, connective at the back of
the base, prolonged into a short linear process.
Above Wray's Camp on a Livistona Tahanensis, Becc.
This beautiful plant is distinct in possessing the largest and
showiest flowers of any recorded species. The whole of the
inflorescence is very viscid and gummy, as is the case in other
species of this genus.]
54. SoNERiLA c^siA, Stapf. A large form in the Gully
below the Padang.
Distribution. Perak and Telom in Pahang.
55. SONERILA TENUIFOLIA, Bl. antca, p. 46, In the Gully
and damp spots along the first stream on the Padang beyond
the waterfall.
Distribution. Mountains of the Peninsula, Java, and
Borneo.
56. Phyllagathis hispida, King. In the Gully and the
Teku woods up to about 4,600 feet elevation. Common in
the woods of the Tahan River and in Perak.
*57. Medinilla Pahangensis, Ridl. op. cit. p. 310.
Gunong Tahan at 5,000 feet {Robinson). Not seen again.
Endemic.
58. M. Hasseltii, var. Epiphyte, stem white, with
dark warts. Leaves elliptic-lanceolate, blunt, slightly narrowed
at the base, fleshy, pale beneath, nerves 3, prominent on the