254 Flora of the Malayan Paninsula. 



4 in. broad ; midrib prominent beneath, impressed and stellate-pilose 

 above ; main-nerves about 10 pairs, prominent, arched upwards to and 

 along the margin; reticulations prominent, transverse ; petiole "3 to "4 in. 

 long, stellate-pubescent. Bacemes in terminal and axillary panicles, 

 4 to 8 in. long, densely white-tomentose and rusty-stellate-pilose, in- 

 cluding calyx; pedicels very short, to "15 in. long; bracts oblong- 

 lanceolate, glandular-dentate, "25 in. long ; bracteoles 2, linear-subulate, 

 •15 in. long; flowers creamy-white. Calyx-tube cupular, -2 to '25 in. 

 long, truncate ; teeth 5, very minute. Corolla-tube short, -15 long, 

 glabrous at the very base, appressed white-pubescent above ; lobes 5, 

 valvate, '3 in. long, linear-oblong, acute, afterwards recurved. Staviens 

 10, about -3 in. long ; filaments short, flat, glabrous, continued in the 

 connective which is white-pubescent on the back ; anthers "2 in. long, 

 linear, mucronate, cells parallel. Ovary 5-lobed, white- villous, conical ; 

 style slender, as long as corolla ; stigma capitate ; cells 3, ovules 5 to 6, 

 erect. Fruit ovoid, grey-pubescent, mucronate, '75 to 1 in. in diam., 

 supported by the cupuliform calyx ; pericarp thick, corky. Seed 1, outer 

 integument pale brown, smooth, crustaceous, with a broad basal hilum, 

 inner integument membranous; albumen firm, endosperm cushion-like; 

 embryo somewhat oblique ; cotyledons cordate, -2 in. long ; radicle thick, 

 terete, as long as cotyledons. Crotoni affinis sp. Wall. Cat. 7348. 



Perak : Scortechmi 179 ; King's Collector 7775, 7967, 8558, 10734. 

 Singapore : Wallich 7848 ; Cantley 60. 



This species, like the others, is also frequently found with large tassel-like insect 

 galls in place of the inflorescence. 



Order LXXIV. OLEACEiE. 



Erect or climbing shrubs or trees, unarmed. Leaves usually oppo- 

 site, rarely alternate or verticillate, simple or pinnately 3-few-foliolate, 

 entire or toothed ; stipules none. Inflorescence sometimes dichoto- 

 mously cymose and centrifugal, sometimes trichotomously paniculate, 

 some or all branches centripetal ; cymes or panicles axillary or ter- 

 minal. Floivers hermaphrodite, often dimorphous, sometimes polyga- 

 mous or dioecious, regular. Calyx free, usually small, campanulate, 

 4- or more-toothed or -lobed, rarely 0. Corolla gamopetalous ; tube 

 long or short ; lobes or petals 4 to 12, imbricate or induplicate-valvate 

 in bud. Stamens usually 2, sometimes 4, inserted on the corolla, or 

 ^ypogy^ous if the petals are free or ; filaments usually short ; anthers 

 rather large, ovate or oblong, rarely linear, dehiscing on the margin. 

 Ovary free, 2-celled ; style short or long ; stigma simple or 2-lobed ; 

 ovules 1 to 2, rarely more, in each cell, attached to the inner angle near 

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