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154 Journal of the F.M.S. Museums. [Vol. VI,
*74. IXORA ROBINSONII, n. sp.
Shrub, with dark brown bark. Leaves coriaceous, oblanceolate
to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, apex blunt, narrowed
at the base, nerves slender, about ten pairs, midrib prominent
beneath, grooved abcn^e, petiole winged to base, 4 to 7 inches
Jong, 2 inches wnde. Stipules connate, cylindric, truncate,
mucronate, persistent. Cyme large, lax, with several branch-
es, many-flowered, 3 inches long, 4 inches wide. Flowers red,
on pedicels ^ inch long ; lobes ovate-subobtuse, shorter.
Corolla 2^ inches long; tube slender, 2 inches long; lobes 5,
half an inch long, lanceolate-acute, acuminate, narrowed at
the base, red. Style shortly protruded, grooved.
Pahang, Gunong Tahan (Robinson, 5304). It occurs from
a little above Wray's Camp, 4,000 feet alt., to the Gully, about
5,500 feet alt. Accidentally omitted from the original publication
of the Gunong Tahan collections. A very distinct
species in its coriaceous leaves, and large flowers an inch across,
with acute lobes narrowed at the base. Nearest perhaps to
I. stricta, Roxb. A most beautiful, perhaps the most beautiful
of the Ixoras ; the flowers of a salmon-red in a fine spreading
cyme.
75. Lasianthus flavinervius, n. sp.
Shrub, stem, and young parts covered with appressed
yellow hairs. Leaves elliptic, acuminate, base slightly narrowed,
above glabrous, smooth, shining, beneath nerves and
secondary nerves strongly elevated and covered with yellow^
hairs, nerves 7 pairs, nervules transverse, parallel, almost
horizontal, reticulations distinct, 6 inches long, 2 inches wide;
petiole yellow silky, J inch long. Stipules very short, with
two or three short teeth, all yellow hairy. Cymes shorter than
the petioles, few-flowered. Flowers small, verj' shortly
peduncled. Calyx ^ inch long, campanulate, with 5 short
teeth, hairy, tipped with blue. Corolla silky. Fruit ^ inch
long, campanulate, narrowed at the base, with five large,
linear, lanceolate teeth, ^^ inch long, all hairy and blue.
Pyrenes 4, backs rounded, front angled.
Gunong Tahan woods. Endemic.
Perhaps nearest to L. pilosus, Wight. The fruit is rather
peculiar in its size, long sepals, and hairiness.
76. Lasianthus Robinsonii, Ridley. In the Gully and
Teku woods. In fruit. Also occurs on the ridges at Telom.
77. Lasianthus montanus. King & Gamble. Woods
round the Padang.
Distribntion. Perak.
*78. Lasianthus chinensis, Benth.; Ridl. op. cit. p. 312.
In the Gully.
Distribution. Perak, China.
*7g. Lasianthus coronatus, King & Gamble. Common
in the Padang woods and at Wray's Camp. A low shrub.
Distribution. Perak.