832 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



bose or slightly puberulous, deeply divided nearly to the base ; lobes 

 ovate-acuminate, cuspidate, about -6 in. long by "25 in. broad, 

 enlarging in fruit to 1'5 in. in diam., and then spreading. Corolla- 

 tube slender, cylindrie, 4 to -6 in. long ; lobes spathulate, rounded at 

 top, as long as tube. Stamens exsert ; filaments glabrous ; anthers 

 •1 in. long; cells parallel. Ovary rounded, obtuse; style very slender; 

 stigmas 2, short. Drupe black, smooth, fleshy, globose, -5 in. in diam. ; 

 pyrenes 4 or less, triangular- convex ; endocarp crustaceous. Seeds 

 rounded, '25 in. in diam. ; testa membranous ; cotyledons fleshy ; radicle 

 minute. 



Peeak : at Kapayong Kinta, Wray 167 ; in dense jungle up to 

 3500 ft., King's Collector 722, 6959, 8268 ; ScortecMni 2198; on Larut 

 Hills, 3000 ft., and in Thaiping Hills, Derry 3704 {Curtis), 10712; at 

 Kwala Dipang, Curtis 3116 ; at Bujong Malacca, Bidley 9700. — 

 DiSTEiB. Sumatra (in deep shade of forest at Grenoeng Trang and 

 Kotta Djawa, Lampongs, Forbes 1333, 1585). 



Ridley's No. 7594, from Ginting Bidai, Selangor, appears to be this species, but 

 the leaves are rather narrower than usual and reach 12 in. long by 2-5 in. broad. 

 The specimen is in fruit, which Ridley describes as black with a red calyx. 



7. Cleeodendron myrmecophilum, Eidley in Journ. Bot. XXXIII. 

 42 (1895). A sparingly branched shrub, about 3 ft. high ; stem stout, 

 terete, glabrous, fistular, the bark white ; internodes swollen, hollow. 

 Leaves opposite or alternate, membranous when dry ; oblong, elliptic- 

 oblong or -oblanceolate, acute or obtuse at apex, acute obtuse or cordate 

 at base ; both surfaces glabrous, dull ; margins entire ; 6 to 12 in. long, 

 2 to 4 in. broad ; midrib stout, broad, pale on the upper surface ; main 

 nerves 10 to 13 pairs, curving very gently upwards to meet in a looped 

 intramarginal nerve ; transverse nervules very few, irregular ; reticu- 

 lations not visible ; petiole 7*5 to 2-5 in. long, fistular. Panicle a 

 terminal, shortly peduncled, pubescent, pyramidal thyrsus reaching 

 10 in. long and 3 to 4 in. broad; branches usually opposite, spreading, of 

 rather few-flowered loose reddish-brown cymes ; bracts and bracteoles 

 linear-subulate, caducous reddish-brown; pedicels "15 to -2 in. long; 

 buds clavate, curved ; flowers ochreous-red. Calyx puberulous, about 

 •3 in. long, cleft nearly to the base ; lobes erect, lanceolate acuminate 

 with incurved tips ; fruiting calyx enlarged to about 1 in. in diam ; 

 lobes triangular-acuminate, reflexed, red. CoroZ/a-tube cylindrie, about 

 •5 in. long, puberulous without ; lobes as long as tube, obovate-oblong ; 

 the tips rounded. Stamens long exsert ; filaments very slender, red; an- 

 thers oblong-reniform, -05 in. long; cells parallel. Ovary glabrous, ob- 

 tuse ; style as long as stamens, red ; stigmatic branches slender. Drupe 



