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divaricate ; connective glandular on the back. Ovarii rounded, glabrous ; 

 style as long as stamens, -2 in. ; stigma bifid ; the lobes -025 in. long, 

 usually recurved. Drupe not seen. 



Peeak: Scortechini 4:65. Singapore: ga,vden jungle, Bid ley 6S2Q. 



14. Peemna Kunstleei, King & Gamble in Kew Bull. 109 (1908). A 

 large shrub or small tree, nearly quite glabrous, sometimes climbing ; 

 branches stout, thick, purplish-brown ; branchlets the size of a quill, 

 terete, glabrous, sparsely lenticellate. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic, 

 sometimes elliptic-oblong or obovate, obtuse at tip with a short blunt 

 abrupt acumination, rounded or subcordate at base ; both surfaces gla- 

 brous, more or less shining when dry ; margins entire, slightly recurved ; 

 4 to 7 in. long, 2-5 to 4 in. broad ; midrib very stout, impressed above, 

 raised prominently beneath ; main nerves 5 to 7 pairs at from 50^ to 60" 

 with the midrib, the lowest pair small, from the base, the second from 

 close above it, the rest more distant, all curved upwards to join in a 

 looped intramarginal nerve and joined by four irregular transverse 

 veinlets ; reticulations minutely netted, forming a prominent network on 

 the upper surface when dry; petiole "75 to 1-25 in. long, smooth but 

 channelled above. Corymbs terminal, spreading, long-branched, 3-choto- 

 mous below, 2-chotomous above, glabrous except for very minute spare 

 tawny pubescence on the upper branches and calyx-tube, sessile or pedun- 

 culate, the peduncle or primary branches 3 to 4 in. long, the whole corymb 

 reaching 7 in. in length and 5 in. in breadth ; bracts linear or linear- 

 lanceolate, the lower ones leafy ; pedicels very short, less than -05 in. to 

 the joint under the calyx-tube ; flowers pale greenish-white. Calyx cup- 

 shaped, -075 in. long, truncate or very obscurely 2-lipped, in fruit very 

 shallow and almost quite entire. Corolla-tnhe tubular, -125 in. long, 

 the lower half glabrous and almost hyaline, the upper shortly white- 

 villous ; limb 2-lipped, lower lip 3-lobed, the midlobe longest, the two 

 others and the upper lip equal, all erect or incurved. Stajnens shortly 

 exsert, attached just below the mouth of the corolla-tube ; anther- 

 cells rounded, slightly divaricate, pores elliptic. Ovary glabrous, 

 depressed, 4-celled ; style as long as stamens ; stigma very shortly bifid. 

 Drupe obovoid, faintly ribbed, -25 in. long ; epicarp smooth, waxy- 

 white [Kunstler) ; pyrenes 4-celled, one or more cells fertile. Seeds 

 obovate, plano-convex, -15 to "2 in. long ; testa white, corky ; cotyledons 

 flat, fleshy, -15 in. long, -1 in. broad, retuse at tip ; radicle minute. 



Peeak : on low ground, under 500 ft. in alt. Kings Collector 938, 

 4723, 5949. Malacca: at Sungli Udang, Goodenough 1350. 



To this species we also refer Forbes' No. 1424 from the Lampongs, Sumatra, but the 

 leaves reach over 8 in. in length and 5 in. in breadth with slightly attenuate bases, 

 and the fruiting calyx is rather more 2-lipped. 



