34 Flora of the Malayan Peninsuia. 
Leaves variable in shape and size, usually elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate 
or elliptic-oblong, acuminate at apex, also usually at base; margin, 
finely glandular serrate; 7—25 cm. long, 2‘5—10 em. broad; main 
nerves about 10 pairs, curving upwards and joined by rather promi- 
nent but wide reticulations; petiole O—1 cm. long, each pair joined 
in a sheath bearing minute subulate stipules. Inflorescence 5—13 cm. 
long ; spikes 2°5 to 5 cm. long, slender ; bracts sheathing, ovate, acute. 
Stamens 3 connate by their connectives, the middle anther 2-celled, 
the lateral l-celled. Berries 5 to 6 mm. in diam., globose, white. Fi. 
Jav. ITT. 10.t.1. Solmsin DC. Prodr. XVI. i. 474; Miq. Fl. Ind. 
Bat. I. i. 801; Hook.f. Fl. Br. Ind. V. 100. C. elatior, Br. in Bot. 
Mag. t. 2199. C. erectus, Sweet; Wall. Cat. 6881. Cryphea erecta, 
Ham. in Brewst. Kd. Journ. (1825) 11, t. 2. 
Penance: Wallich 6881!. Perak: Curtis 1180!, 1708!; forests 
near Larut at about 1000 m. alt., King’s Collector 4235!. DInDINGS: 
Ridley!. Matacca: Griffith 4396!; Maingay (K. D.) 1337!. Srvea- 
PORE: Hulleit 16 !.—Distris. N. India, Burma, China, Malay Archi- 
pelago, Philippines. 
2. CHLORANTHUS BRACHYSTACHYS, Blume FI. Jay. fase. VIII. 
13, 14, t. 2 (1828). A small erect glabrous undershrub reaching 1 m. 
high or more; branchlets terete. Leaves subcoriaceous; lanceolate 
or elliptic-lanceolate, long acuminate at apex, long attenuate at 
base ; margins coarsely glandular-serrate; 10—20 cm. long, 3—7 cm. 
broad; main nerves 7—10 pairs, rather irregular; reticulations not 
prominent; petiole about 1 cm. long, each pair joined in a sheath 
bearing 2 small linear subulate stipules on either side. Inflorescence 
3—8 cm. long; spikes 1—2 cm. long, rather dense; bracts small, 
acute. Siamen 1, short, depressed ; anther-cells 4, connective broad. 
Berries 5—6 mm. in diam., globose, red. Wall. Cat. 6880; Solms 
in DC. Prodr. XVI. i. 475; Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. I. 1. 801, and Ann. 
Mus. Lugd.-Bat. III. 129; Benth. Fl. Hongk. 334; Hook. f. Fl. Br. 
Ind. V. 100. C. monander, Br. in Bot. Mag. t. 2190 im note. C. 
ceylanicus, Mig.1.c. 802. C. denticulatus, Cord. in Adans. ili. 296. 
Ascarina serrata, Blume Enum. Pl. Jav. I. 79. Sarcandra chloran- 
thoides, Gardn. in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. VIII. 348; Wight Ic. t. 
1946; Cord. 1. c. 301. 
Penance: Wallich 6880!; Government Hill, Maingay (K. D.) 
1338!; Curtis 1050!; Deschamps. PERaxk : in Batang Padang Valley 
at about 1000 m. alt., Wray 1479!. Panane: Ridley 13710!.— 
Disrriz. India (Khasia Hills, Nilgiris, Travancore), Ceylon, China, 
Malay Archipelago, Philippine Islands. 
