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two-thirds down, with large prominent, scattered, rounded glands ; 

 lobes ovate-lanceolate, cuspidate-acuminate, -25 in. long ; fruiting 

 calyx white, much enlarged, nearly 1 in. in diam. when opened, com- 

 pletely embracing the fruit. Corolla villous; tube cylindric, -2 to -3 in. 

 long ; lobes obovate-oblong, as long as tube. Stamens long-exsert ; 

 filaments slender ; anthers oblong-reniform ; cells parallel. Ovary 

 glabrous, obtuse ; style slender, longer than the stamens ; stigmatie lobes 

 2 very short. Drupe globose, shining, black when ripe {King's Collec- 

 tor), white {Jack), slightly succulent, with 4 to 1 pyrenes ; pyrenes 

 convex on the outer, flattened on the two inner, faces, -25 in. long ; 

 endocarp crustaceous, reticulate. Seeds oblong, curved, -15 to -2 in. 

 long ; testa thin ; cotyledons fleshy, curved, somewhat unequal ; 

 radicle minute. Schauer in DC. Prodr. XI. 667 ; Kurz For. Fl. II. 268 ; 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 877; Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 595. 

 G. molle, Jack in Mai. Misc. I. 15, and in Hook. Bot. Misc. I. 283 {not 

 of H.B.K.). C . vekitinum, Wall. Cat. 1797. C . trichotomum, Wall. 

 Cat. 6315 B {not of Thunb.). 



Penang : Curtis 101 ; roadsides on the hill, Deschamps ; near 

 top of the hill, G. King. Peeak : ScortecJiini 1389 ; in open forests, at 

 100 to 300 ft. alt.. King's Collector {Kimstler) 5191, 5647, 8831. 

 DiNDiNGs : Pangkore, Scortechini 63. Malacca : Griffith 6051 ; Main- 

 gay (K.D.) 1187 ; Hervey ; Derry 148. Singapoee : Cuming 2415 ; 

 Wallich 1797 ; Murton 124 ; Schomhurgk 66 ; Kurz ; G. King ; Des- 

 champs. — DisTEiB. Burma (Martaban, fide Kurz ; Mergui, Griffith), 

 Java, Sumatra, Philippines. 



12. Cleeodendeon Colebeookianum, Walp. Eep. IV, 114 (1844). 

 A large shrub, sometimes a small tree with silver-grey bark ; branchlets 

 glabrous, or the uppermost pubescent, quadrangular, furrowed below 

 the leaf-petioles, more or less fleshy and soft ; innovations tawny- 

 pubescent. Leaves membranous when dry, opposite ; broadly ovate, 

 acute at apex, cordate at base, the sinus rather broad ; both surfaces 

 glabrous except the nerves beneath which are puberulous, a few large 

 glands on the lower surface especially near the apex of the petiole ; mar- 

 gins entire or sinuate ; 5 to 12 in. long, 4 to 10 in. broad ; midrib 

 prominent ; main nerves 8 to 10 pairs, the lowest pair from just above 

 the petiole, with about 5 to 6 branch-nerves on the outer side, all 

 spreading and curving only close to the margin ; transverse nerves 

 faint, as are the netted reticulations ; petiole 2 to 8 in. long, cylindric, 

 smooth. Panicles large, spreading, terminal, pubescent, reaching 1 to 

 2 ft. in diam. ; branches long-peduncled, ending in corymbose, close, 

 many-flowered cymes ; bracts lanceolate, caducous ; bracteoles many, 

 lanceolate ; pedicels short, -1 to -2 in. long ; buds clavate, often 1 in. 



