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stamens ; stigma conical. Berry (immature) globular, smooth when 

 fresh, wrinkled when dry. Seeds embedded in pulp. 

 Peeak : at Haram, Scortechini 711. 



3. Chilocaepus decipibns, Hook. f. in Fl. Br. Ind. III. 627 (1882). 

 A glabrous slender climbing shrub ; young branches twice as thick as a 

 crow-quill, terete, dull brown when dry, with numerous elongate pale 

 lenticels, swollen at the nodes. Leaves thinly coriaceous ; narrowly 

 elliptic-oblong or -lanceolate, obtusely and often obliquely long acumi- 

 nate at apex, cuneate at base ; glabrous on both surfaces and olivaceous- 

 brown, the lower paler and minutely dotted ; margins slightly recurved, 

 crispate ; 3 to 3-5 in. long, 1 to 1*5 in. broad ; midrib prominent, pale, 

 channelled above ; main nerves 20 to 25 pairs, slender, parallel, at 

 about 75° to 80° with the midrib, straight to the margin, close to which 

 they join an intramarginal nerve, visible on both surfaces ; secondary 

 nerves many, usually alternate with the main nerves, also running to 

 the intramarginal one, occasionally branched, but not recurrently ; 

 petiole slender, -25 in. long. Cymes terminal and axillary, 2 to 

 8-chotomous, forming a terminal leafy panicle up to 9 in. long and 

 6 in. broad ; main peduncles 1 to 1"25 in. long, successive branches 

 gradually shorter ; ultimate cymules subumbellate ; pedicels stout, 

 covered with minute bracteoles spirally arranged, up to "2 in. long ; 

 bracts leafy caducous, those at the bases of the branches and pedicels 

 ovate acute, sheathing, with pale margins ; flowers not known. Berry 

 linear-oblong, cylindric, 2-5 in. long by nearly 1 in. broad, on a stout 

 many-bracteolate pedicel and calyx of ovate acute lobes, splitting when 

 ripe ; pericarp woody, minutely granular, green when fresh, reddish- 

 brown when dry, nearly -1 in. thick. Seeds of various shapes, about 

 •5 in. long ; partly enclosed in a corky aril with fibres at its base ; testa 

 granular, deeply furrowed as is the thin fleshy albumen ; cotyledons 

 flat, nearly orbicular, "15 in. long ; radicle '1 in. long. 



Peeak : at Ulu Bubong, in dense jungle at 300 to 600 feet. King's 

 Collector 10017, 10268. Malacca : Maingay (K.D.) 1043, 1060. 

 Selangoe : on Kent Estate, Bidley 8557. 



4. Chilocaepus eneevis. Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 626 (1882). A 

 stout woody glabrous climbing shrub ; branchlets as thick as or thinner 

 than a goose-quill, pale brown when dry, obtusely angled, the nodes 

 raised and marked by a ridge ; terminal buds resinous. Leaves coria- 

 ceous ; narrowly obovate or oblanceolate, rounded or very briefly 

 apiculate or sometimes shallowly emarginate at apex, long cuneate at 

 base ; both surfaces shining, the lower very pale when dry and often 

 minutely puncticulate ; the margin slightly cartilaginous, recurved ; 

 3 to 5 in. long, 1-25 to 2 in. broad ; midrib stout, prominent beneath, 



