Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 4] 
shining on the upper surface when mature except on the midrib which 
is rusty-tomentose, when young all rusty villous; lower surface 
glaucous and puberulous, between the densely rusty-tomentose midrib 
and prominent nervation; 20 to 30 cm. long, 5 to 10 cm. broad; 
midrib narrow above, broad and prominent below, densely tomentose ; 
main nerves 8 to 12 pairs gracefully arching to and along the margin, 
deeply impressed above, prominently raised beneath, each pair 
joined almost horizontally by sub-parallel transverse nervules, also 
impressed above; petiole stout, 1 cm. long. Flowers subsessile, in 
dense crowded rusty-villous bracteate axillary and subterminal pani- 
cles up to 10 cm. long; bracts linear-lanceolate, usually 5 to 10 mm. 
long, one with two similar smaller bracteoles to each flower. Pert- 
anth-tube cylindric, slightly constricted at top, 2 mm. long, densely 
villous without; lobes ovate-oblong, 4 mm. long, densely rusty- 
villous. Stamens of Ist and 2nd row about 2 mm. long with villous 
filaments and ovate anthers, those of 3rd row rather longer, the con- 
nective produced at the top inan acute crest ; staminodes of 4th row 
1-5—2 mm. long, cordate, apiculate, glabrous in fruit, villous behind ; 
glands shortly stipitate,1mm.long. Ovary narrowly ovoid, glabrous, 
glandular-dotted, attenuated into a slender style: stigma obtuse. 
Fruit when young ovoid-oblong, glabrous, obscurely ribbed, attenu- 
ated into a ring at top and the boss of the perianth-lobes, when 
old globose with a flask-shaped mouth 2 cm. Jong, 1 cm. in diam. 
Seed narrowly ovoid, attenuated into a beak; testa membranous, 
adherent to the persistent perianth tube; cotyledons thick, inside 
face plane; radicle conical. Kurz For. Fl. I. 295; Hook. f. Fl. Br. 
Ind. V. 117; Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. I. i. 923; Brandis Ind. Trees 527. 
‘C. infectoria, Miq. var. caudata, Meissn. in DC. Prodr. XV. i. 68. 
Perak: at Ulu Bubong and Ulu Kerling, 100-200 m., King’s 
Collector 86593!, 101731, 10999! ; hills at 250—300 m. alt., King’s 
Collector 107941; Scortechint 510!. Sunerr Usone: Ridley 2042! 
Mauacca: Griffith 42761; Maingay (K. D.) 1249!; Kurz !; at 
Merliman, etc. Hoimberg 869!, 899! ; Goodenough 1568!. JOHORE: 
at Muar, Biawak, Curtis 3614!. SmncarorE: at Changi, Selitar and 
Teban, Ridiey 175!, 427!, 3382!.—Distris. South Tenasserim. 
4. CRYPTOCARYA CRASSINERVIA, Mig. FI. Ind. Bat. I. i, 924 
(1855). A tree, reaching a height of 20 to 25 m. and a diameter of 
stem of 35 to 60 cm.; branchlets stout, subtetragonously angled, 
densely rusty tomentose as are the inflorescences and the innovations, 
the hairs of the tomentum unequal. Leaves very coriaceous; 
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