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bracts and bracteoles minute, caducous; pedicels 1 mm. long. Pert- 
anth-tube funnel-shaped, 1-5 mm. long; lobes as long, interior of 
flower only very slightly sericeous, quite as in C. ferrea as are the 
stamens and ovary. Fruzt ovoid or ellipsoid, black, smooth, ribbed 
when young, faintly so when old, 25 mm. long, 18 mm. broad, apex 
truncate, depressed, the base rounded. Seed conform to the fruit, 15 
mm. long, 10 mm. broad, depressed at apex; testa chartaceous > 
cotyledons fleshy. Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. I. i, 923; Meissn. in DC. 
Prodr. XV i, 71; Koord. and Val. Bijdr. X. 218. OC. glaucescens, 
‘Hassk. Cat. Bog. 89. 
Perak: at Batu Kuran, Scortechini!; near Kinta river and 
elsewhere up to 160 m., King’s Collector 5744 !,7050!, 7818 !, 8776 !.— 
Distr. Java, Borneo. 
var. rugosa, Gamble. Panicles with conspicuously rugose bran- 
ches; leaves glabrous, petioles very thick, 1 to 15 cm. long. 
Maxacca: at Sungei Hudang, Derry 1142! (Ridley). 
This is a species of whose identification I have felt a little doubtful, the 
specimen sheets of true C. tomentosa at Kew and Calcutta being very few and 
consisting chiefly of rather young sprays. But I think, to judge from the 
Calcutta material, both from Java and Borneo, and from the descriptions, that 
I am right. 
8. CRYPTOCARYA FERREA, Blume Bijdr. 557 (1825). A tree, 
reaching 15 to 20 m. in height and 25 to 35 em. in diam. ; branchlets 
stout, angular, rough and lenticellate, the ultimate ones and the 
inflorescence minutely rusty-pubescent. Leaves chartaceo-coriaceous ; 
oblong or oblong-obovate, sometimes oblong-lanceolate, obtuse at tip 
with a short acumen, cuneate or alternate at base sometimes rounded ; 
upper surface dull or slightly shining; glabrous, lower pale reddish 
or cinnamon-brown, puberulous only when young and on the nerves ; 
10—25 em. long, 5—10 cm, broad; midrib stout, slightly impressed 
above, prominent beneath; main nerves 9 to 12, or sometimes 15 
pairs, impressed slightly above, the lowest pair small and close to the 
margin, all gently curving to the margin and joined by prominent 
rather distant and irregular transverse nervules, which enclose a 
minutely netted reticulation; petiole 5—10 mm. long, rough, puberu- 
lous in young leaves. Flowers pedice!led, in axillary or terminal 
rusty-puberulous panicles, the axillary ones usually shorter than the 
leaves, the terminal reaching sometimes a length of 20 and breadth 
of 15 ecm., branches spreading, cymes trichotomous; bracts and 
bracteoles small, ovate-lanceolate, caducous; pedicels about 1 mm. 
