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pubescent panicles, 1-5 to 3 in. long ; rachis angular, swollen at the 

 nodes ; bracts subulate, recurved, -1 in. long ; bracteoles triangular, 

 minute. Calyx-hthe very short ; lobes 4, triangular, acuminate. 

 Corolla yellowish- or greenish - white, fleshy ; tube urceolate, "05 

 to -1 in. long ; lobes oblong, incurved, -05 in. long, induplicate- 

 valvate in bud. Stamens 2, inserted on the tube of the corolla ; fila- 

 ments very short, broad ; anthers ovate, rather large. Ovary ovoid ; 

 style ; stigma 2-lobed ; cells 2, ovules 2 in each cell, erect from a 

 minute basal central placenta. Berry ovoid or globose, -5 to -7 in. in 

 diam., rough, surmounted by the persistent stigma, blueish-black when 

 ripe ; cells 2. Seeds 2 to 4, erect on an enlarged placenta at the base 

 of the central dissepiment ; albumen fleshy, testa membranous. Mus. 

 Bot. Lugd. Bat. I. 320, t. 51 ; A.DC. Prod. VIII. 290 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. 

 Bat. II. 549 ; Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 618. 



Penang : Curtis 2849. Pekak : Wray 2139, 2834, 4179 ; Scortechini 

 532, 598b ; Ki7icj's Collector 3584, 4544, 7392, 8845. Malacca : Main- 

 gay (K.D.) 996/3— DiSTRiB. Sumatra [Forbes 1585, in the Lam- 

 pongs) ; Java. 



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