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l)uds obovoid nearly "2 in. long. (7aZ^.?jcampannlate, sessile, not tapering 

 into a pseudo-stalk, the mouth with 5 small rounded lobes, or truncate. 

 Petals 5, orbicular-calyptrate. Fruit unknown. 



Pebak; or Gunong Inas at elevations of about 5,000 feet ; Wray 

 4144,4150,5154. 



A species known only from Monnt Inas. It is allied to iB. suldecussata, Dnthie, 

 in many respects, but differs from that species in having petiolate leaves tapering 

 mucli to the base and having recurved edges. The main nerves are, moreover, lees 

 distinct and the under surface is not dotted. The twigs also differ in being very 

 pale in colour instead of brown. 



78. EcGENJA SUBDECUSSATA, Dutliie in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 

 491. A tree or shrub; young branches sub-terete, compressed below 

 the nodes, brown. Leaves sessile or nearly so, coriaceous, elliptic or 

 oblong-elliptic, rarely somewhat obovate-elliptic, (sub-iotund in var. 

 montana), tapering but little to either end, the apex sometimes with a 

 short blunt acumen, the base minutely cordate ; both surfaces dark- 

 brown when dry, the upper polished ; the lower slightly paler and 

 pellucid-dotted ; nerves numerous but nob prominent on either surface, 

 the midrib prominent on the lower ; length 2 to 5'5 in. ; breadth I'So to 

 3 in.; petiole very short or absent (about '1 in. long in var. montana). 

 Panicles terminal, shorter than the leaves, pedunculate, the peduncle 

 and all the branches and branchlets much compressed ; the branches 

 short, crowded. Flowers '35 in. long (including the stamens), sessile in 

 heads on the apices of the branchlets ; the buds shortly clavate*. Calyx 

 funnel-shaped, the mouth with 5 small triangular teeth. Petals calyp- 

 trate. Fruit globular, crowned by the small calyx-cup, smooth, '5 or '6 

 in, in diam. Syzygium suhdecussatum^ Wall. Cat. 3589 in part. 



Singapore: Wallich; Ridley 4662, 4814, 9498, 10389. Malacca: 

 Maingay (K.D.) 740; Berry 476, 975; Ridley 1985. Perak: King's 

 Collector ; Scortechini ; very common from the sea-level to elevations of 

 5,000 feet. 



A species readily recognised by the elliptic polished leaves, tapering very little 

 to either end, also by the compressed short branchlets of the inflorescence and the 

 shortly clavate flowers. 



VAR. colorata^ King; panicle very condensed, flower-buds longer 

 than in the typical form, leaves when dry tinged with red. E. colorata, 

 Buthie in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II. 



Malacca : Maingay (K.D.) 749. 



Only a single specimen of this is known. It appears to me a form of i^. s«b- 

 decussata, and uixworthy of specific rank. 



VAR. montana, King ; shrubby ; leaves often sub-rotund or obovoid 

 elliptic, from 1 to 2'5 in. long ; panicles longer than the leaves. 



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