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stem; branchlets stout, angular, dark brown, uppermost minutely 
puberulous. Leaves coriaceous; elliptic or elliptic-oblong, shortly 
acuminate at apex, attenuately rounded often unequally at base; 
glabrous on both surfaces, dull on the upper; 10—16 cm. long, 3—6 
em. broad ; midrib very stout, slightly impressed and keeled on the 
upper surface, very prominent on the iower; main nerves 6 to 9 
pairs, slightly impressed above, very prominent beneath, curved 
sradually upwards to and along the margin and joined by very slender 
close subparallel transverse nervules and minutely netted reticula- 
tion ; petiole curved, slightly puberulous, 10to15mm. long. Panicles 
lateral; few-flowered, stout, shorter than the leaves. Flowers not 
known. Fruit globose, glabrous, dark green, black whendry, 10—12 
mm. in diameter. 
PERAK: open mixed jungle on Ulu Bubong at 150 to 250 m. 
King’s Collector 10570! 
16. CRYPTOCARYA ARGENTEA, Gamble in Kew Bull. 144 (1910). 
An evergreen tree reaching 15 to 20 m. in height and 37 to 50 cm. in 
diam. of stem; branchlets slender, pale brown, lenticellate, the 
uppermost minutely puberulous. Leaves coriaceous, often bullate ; 
oblong or oblong-lanceolate, shortly obtusely acuminate at apex, 
cuneate at base; upper surface bright green when fresh, brown when 
dry, shining, glabrous, lower silvery-grey when fresh, bluish-glaucous 
when dry, the nerves puberulous ; 8—15 cm. long, 3—6 cm. broad ; 
midrib rather slender, strongly impressed above; main nerves 8—10 
pairs, slightly impressed above, curved to near the margin and then 
meeting in a small loop, joined by irregular transverse nervules and 
an obscure reticulation ; petiole slender, 9—12 cm. long, black when 
dry. Flowers in axillary or terminal slender panicles reaching about 
6 cm. in length; only young fruit (ellipsoid, faintly ribbed) known. 
PERAK: in dense jungle at 90—180 m. alt., King’s Collector 
7966 ! 
This species comes near to C. Kurz, Hook. f. 
Tribe I]. APOLLONIEZ. 
2. BrI~scHMIEDIA, Nees. 
Evergreen trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate or opposite, usually 
coriaceous, penni-nerved, venose-reticulate. Flowers usually small, 
hermaphrodite, axillary lateral or subterminal, racemose or panicled. 
