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coriaceous, shining yellow above, paler and not shining beneath 

 (green in shady woods), 2 to 2 J inches long, J to i inch wide. 

 Male spikes 1^ inch long, J inch in diameter, cylindric, obtuse; 

 antheriferous scales ^ inch across the top, | inch long; 

 limb nearly orbicular, edges rough. Pollen-sacs few. Cone 

 globose, apex rounded, 2^ inches long, 2 inches through. 

 Scales i^ inch long, i inch wide, broadly obovate; the base 

 trilobed; the two side-lobes acute, incurved; the central lobe 

 oblong; limb narrow, hardly ^ inch wide, elevated in the 

 centre slightly. Seed elliptic, rounded at both ends, flattened, 

 ^ inch long, ^ inch wide; wing large, broad, and rounded at 

 the tip, half an inch or more long. 



On the Padang and in the woods near the Teku, and 

 along the ridge towards Skeat's Camp. 



The biggest tree on the Padang, though barely 40 feet 

 tall, attaining a larger size in the damper woods, but not as 

 tall as the species on the Penang and Perak Hills. Where 

 exposed the branches and leaves are of a curious yellow colour 

 and very coriaceous, glaucous beneath, the edges reflexed. 



It is most closely allied to A. regia, Warburg, of Batchian, 

 but the leaves are not lanceolate and acute as in that species. 

 The male cone and the antheriferous scales closely resemble 

 the cone of that species, but the scales of the female cone have 

 a much narrower limb and the base is usually distinctly 

 trilobed, the side-lobes being acute and curved in. The wing 

 of the seed is usually large and broad. 



In previous papers I referred this species collected, first 

 by Robinson, to A. loranthifolia (rhomboidalis, Warburg) of 

 Penang Hill, but, on seeing the plant alive and procuring a 

 nearly ripe cone and male spikes, I find it cannot be classed 

 with that one. The male spikes are smaller than in any other 

 species known to me except A. regia, Warb. 



*284. Dacrydium elatum, Br.; Ridl. op. cit. p. 333. On 

 the Padang in small woods. The trees are of no great size, 

 and it is less common than the next species. 



285. Dacrydium Beccarii, Pari. A shrub or bush, 

 hardly a tree, very common on the Padang, and flowering and 

 fruiting when only 5 feet tall. In this plant the leaves on the 

 flowering shoots are shorter and thicker than those of the 

 barren stems, but not reduced to scales like those of D. elatum. 

 The male spikes were either dried or just commencing growth 

 at the time of our visit. They were \ inch long and rather 

 stout. The antheriferous scales, elongate, lanceolate, i inch 

 long. The fruit in the female trees in borne on the ends of 

 the branches, single or 2 or 3 together, and hardly longer than 

 the shortened leaves which surround them. The ovules are 

 inch long, obovoid, shortly acute at the tip, deep black-purple, 

 shining at the tip. 



Distribution. Borneo, Mt. Ophir. 



286. Dacrydium falciforme, Pilg- Common in the 

 woods of the Padang, but the trees quite small. I saw none 



