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C. laevigatus. CERATOLOBUS. 15 
carry 2—3 flowers only; spathels shortly infundibuliform, produced at one side into 
a triangular acute point suffulting a sessile male flower, of which the involucre 
is small, very shallowly cupular, trigonous, and 3-toothed. Male flowers regular, 
ovoid-ventricose, trigonous, and obtuse; 4 mm. long, 3 mm. broad ; the -calyx 
membranous, shallow, broadly 3-lobed ; the corolla much longer has the calyx, 
parted nearly to the base into 3 intrisi bitb: m bluntish coriaceous petals. Stamens 
(the several flowers examined had had all their stamens destroyed by 
an insect) ^ Female panicle twice branched, its primary branches alternate, straight, 
terete, puberulous-furfuraceous and divided into few  floriferous branchlets, each 
branchlet having 3—5 alternate flowers ; spathels infundibuliform, truncate obliquely 
at the mouth, and produced at one side into a triangular acute point; involu- 
erophorum cyathiform and frequently distinctly pedicellate, similar to the spathel ; 
involucre slightly protruding beyond the involucrophorum, shortly eupular more or 
less distinctly 3-toothed ; areola of the neuter flower distinct. Female flowers 6 
mm. long, 4 mm. broad, ovoid, having the lower half slightly ventricose; the 
calyx membranous, very shallowly cupular, 3-toothed ; the corolla. coriaceous, parted 
down not farther than to the middle, into 3 thickish semiovate segments ; filaments 
adnate below to the  ventricose base of the corolla, triangular in the free-part ; 
anthers sterile, linear-sagittate ; ovary globular, clothed with large suborbicular 
fimbriate scales; style distinct, stout ; stigmas thick, elongate, recurved. Neuter 
jlowers very initiate to the male ones “(they had also had the stamens destroyed 
by au insect). Fruit subglobose-ovoid, or -elliptical-ovoid, conically beaked. 16—20 
mm. long (rarely more), 12—15 mm. in diameter, borne on the very shortly pedicelli- 
form perianth; scales in 12 longitudinal series, dark or reddish-brown, rather 
dull, convex, narrowly grooved along the centre, bluntish, the margins very finely 
erose. Seed globular-ovoid, about 1 cm. in diameter; its surface obscurely pitted 
being covered by the thin adherent (perhaps once dia fleshy) integument ; chalaza 
fovea central, rather deep; albumen ruminate. Embryo. basal. 
HanrrAr.—The Malay Peninsula, Singapore, Sumatra, and Borneo. It seems a 
rather common plant in the "Malay Peninsula. At Malacca (Grifith—the type specimen 
in the Caleutta and Kew Herbaria); in the district of Perak (Scortechini Nos. 126. 
123° in Herb. Becc.); at Larut (King's collector Nos. 5916, 8092, 7953, 1879); at 
Goping (King’s collector No. 971) and Maxwells Hill (Ridley No. 3488 in Herb. Becc.); 4 
in Selangore at Sungei Buluh (Ridley No. 13448 in Herb. Kew) and Semangkok 
Pass (Ridley No. 12120 in Herb. Becc.); in Singapore (Ridley No. 10220 in Herb. 
Becc.); Dinding at Lamut (Ridley No. 3489 in Herb. Becc.) Ridley gives also the 
following localities (the specimens not seen by me)—Perak at Bujong Malacca 
(Curtis, Ridley No. 9812); Gunong Keledang (Ridley No. 9808) ; Kamuning (Macchado); 
in Dinding at Lamut (Ridley Nos. 7907, 10270). 
In Sumatra it was first collected by Teijsmann in the West at Priaman. 
(No. 2024 in Herb. Bogor.)—This is. the type specimen of C. subangulatus Miq. 
I have found it again at Ajer. Mantjor in the Prov. of Padang (Bec. P. S. 
No. 519). dE 
In Borneo in Sarawak (Merrill's Native collector No. 1471 in Herb. Manila); 
Dutch Borneo at Liang-gagan (Hallier No. 2758 in Herb. Bogor.); at Bandelin 
(No. 22 in Herb. Bogor.). 
