Alseodaphne.]  oxxvit. navmwEE, (J. D. Hooker.) 145 
bisexual and agree with Nees’ description except in that the anthers are decidedly 
4-celled. The slender habit and thin leaves are unlike its congeners. 
3. A. decipiens, Hook. J.; nearly glabrous, leaves subverticillate 
rigidly coriaceous cuneately obovate or lanceolate very obtusely acuminate 
glaucous beneath, nerves 8-10 pair sunk above very strong beneath, panicles 
shorter than the leaves shortly peduncled, perianth minutely hoary, outer 
Segments rather smaller. 
SINGAPORE, N. Cantley. : 
Branches rather robust; bark brown. Leaves 4-6 by 14-2} in., base very aene 
smooth, brown above and not reticnlated, finely reticulate and bluish benea v 
petiole 4-3 in. Panicles rather stout, loosely branched, branches and pedicels c - 
-seurely puberulous ; flowers j in. diam., subglobose, Perianth-segments hairy within, 
as are the stamens and staminodes.—Very similar to Dehaasia cuneata, Bl. 
"4 A. petiolaris, Hook. f ; branches very stout subverticillate, 
leaves very large thickly corievcons long-petioled oblong or oblong obowsts 
obtuse or subacute not narrowed into the petiole glabrous, nerves 8- e 
very Strong, panicles very stout longer or shorter than the leaves ‘poy 
Scurfy, fruit 12 in. oblong much longer than the cylindric pedicel. No 
Phoebe ? petiolaris, Meissn. in DO. Prodr. xv. 1. 59. 
th PE on the Nuku Hills, Simons. Cacwar, Keenan.—DisTRIB. Burma; in 
e Hookhoom Valle , at Camein, Griffith. 
,^ large tree, branchlets as thick as the little finger. Leaves 8-12 by 4-6 in. 
saming and reticulated above, brown on both surfaces, young glaucous bench pase 
ihe 5 Or cuneate ; petiole very stout, 13-24 in. Panicles about half the ength 
e leaves, loosely branched often from near the base; branches tod d- i OB» 
When fruiting as thick asa duck’s quill and soft ; flowers shortly podie - hm 
p ro s vant scurfy, segments short, subequal, obtuse. Fruit apparently very j 
top rounded, pedicel 1—3 in. long. 
** Outer segments of the perianth much smaller than the inner. (See 
also A, Semecarpifolia.) (NoTHarHese, Blume.) 
5. A. umbellifiora, Hook. f. ; nearly glabrous, leaves soattered very 
coriaceous elliptic-oblong or lanceolate caudate-acuminate s ining al re 
panicles much shorter than the leaves, fruit oblong much longer han fhe 
im cylindric pedicel. Nothaphcebe umbelliflora, Blume Mus. Pot. 328; 
ssn. in DO. Prodr. xv. 1. 58. Ocotea umbellifera, Blume ; j i: n 
hæbe ? nmbelliflora, Nees Syst. Laur. 115; Miquel Fl. Ind. 3 at. i., 911 
à ce be umbelliflora, Blume in Herb. Lugd. Bat. Haasia nitida, 
fi ra, 
Jay ATACCA, Griffith, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1247, 1247/2).—Disrris. Sumat 
"B, Borneo. bverticillate at 
ranches rather stout leafy, bark dark. Leaves scattered (not exiis P hehoath 
the ends of the branches), 4-6 by 14-2in., very dark brown above, "P, inicles 1-2 in., 
maon dry,- base acute ; nerves strong, oblique ; petiole j-1 in. M 
Shortly ped intlv . lobose, 4; 
pedicetiey uncled, faintly rusty-hoary ; flowers g 
inner, Sta 
large very shortly petioled 
biase base cordate, nerves 16-18 
6. A. panduriformis, Hook. f.; | 
a , 00 f. , 
glabrous t y-fid., perianth 
L 
hinly coriaceous panduriform o 
T Panicle Shorter than Fhe leaves, branches short man 
L. v. 
