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I9i5-i H. N. Ridley: Botany of Gunong Tahan. 159
loi. Embelia myrtillus, Kurz. On tree over the
stream at the Ninth Camp.
Distribution. Burmah, Mount Ophir, and Perak Hills.
102. Labisia pumila, var. lanceolata. A single specimen
brought in by a Dyak from the banks of the Teku River.
Distribution. Common all over the Peninsula.
103. AkDISIA PETRICOLA, n. Sp.
Shrub, branches slender, dark brown; young parts scurfy,
ferruginous. Leaves elliptic-obtuse, shghtly narrowed to each
end, coriaceous ; nerves numerous, primary nerves slender,
horizontal, parallel, hardly distinguishable from the secondary
nerves; leaf above smooth and nerves inconspicuous, beneath
nerves visible and whole leaf densely dotted with minute
glands, midrib elevated, red, scurfy, 3 inches long, ij inch
wide ; petiole \ inch long, chanelled and winged to the base,
red, scurfy. Panicle terminal, dense, 2 inches long, rachis red,
scurfy ; branches 7 or 8, short, half an inch long, bearing cymes
of 3 or 4 flowers. Bracts very small. Calyx 5-lobed ; lobes
Corolla pink, ^ inch
lanceolate acuminate,
across, tube hardly any;
with large red glands on
lobes 5,
the tips,
lanceolate ovate, obtuse, with numerous red glands on the back
Stamens a little shorter ovate, cordate, mucronate, eglandular;
filaments short. Style subulate, \ inch long. Buds acute.
Gunong Tahan, not rare up to 7,186 feet elevation.
Near A. chrysophyllifolia, King & Gamble, but the panicles
almost invariably terminal (I found one plant with axillary
panicles as well), not pubescent;
not gland-dotted.
the buds acute and stamens
*i04. Ardisia retinervia, Ridl. op. cit. p. 315. Shrub,
fruits black. Endemic.
*i05. Ardisia biniflora, Ridl. op. cit. p. 314; Common
in the Padang woods and thickets. Flowers pink. Drupes
red. Endemic.
*io6.
antea, p
Ardisia rosea. King & Gamble; Ridl. op cit. p. 314;
50. Common in thickets and open woods on the
Padang. Flowers usually nearly white.
Distribution. Hills of Perak and Selangor.
107. Ardisia Montana, King & Gamble. A small tree
with pink flowers, woods below the Gully.
Distribution. Perak.
108. Ardisia i.abisi^folia, King & Gamble. Small
tree with the panicle much more lax and spreading than in the
type, in woods on the Padang.
Distribution. Perak.
STYRACE^.
log. Symplocos pyriflora, n. sp.
A medium-sized tree. Leaves coriaceous, drying greenish
yellow, elliptic-ovate or lanceolate-acuminate, obtuse, margins