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Flowers in very short bracteate racemes; perianth- 
lobes 1 mm. long; leaves reddish-brown when 
dry; branchlets white .. ae .. 10. B. penangiana. 
Species imperfectly known. 
Leaves membranous, elliptic or elliptic ovate ; fruit up 
to 15 mm. long 
ee au 2 11. B. membranacea. 
Leaves chartaceous, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate ; 
fruit up to 25 mm. long a as .. 12. B. pahangensis. 
Leaves coriaceous, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate; fruit 
35 mm. long si a ac -.. 13. B. Foxiana. 
1. BEILSCHIMIEDIA INSIGNIS, Gamble in Kew Bull. 147 (1910). 
A medium-sized tree, reaching 15 to 20 m. in height and 45 to 60 cm. 
in diameter of stem; branchlets dark brown, stout, glabrous, lenticel- 
late; buds slender up to 1 cm. long with glabrous lanceolate scales. 
Leaves very coriaceous, opposite or alternate; oblong or oblong- 
oblanceolate, acute at apex, attenuate at base; both surfaces glab- 
rous, shining, olive-brown when dry; 20—35 cm. long, 7—12 cm. 
broad; midrib stout, slightly impressed above, keeled beneath 
when dry; main nerves 10 to 15 pairs slightly impressed above and 
raised beneath, starting at 50° to 60° with the midrib and curving 
up to and along the margin where they end in gradually diminishing 
small loops between the angular transverse nervules, these and the 
net venation being raised and well marked on the under, less so on 
the upper surface ; petiole stout, channelled above, 20—25 mm. long. 
Flowers in slender axillary panicles up to 12 cm. long; rhachis 
glabrous, flattened; branches slender with few- (2—3-) flowered 
cymules; pedicels slender, 2 mm. long. Perianth-tube cup-shaped, 
1 mm. long; lobes ovate, obtuse, 1-5 mm. long, glabrous on both 
sides except a slight ring below the stamens. Stamens of Ist and 
2nd rows 1:5 mm. long, filaments broad, slightly white-villous, con- 
nective rounded at apex; stamens of 3rd row similar but longer and 
rather more slender, the 2 basal glands broad, obtuse, stipitate ; 
staminodes of 4th row cordate, acuminate, concave in front, 
slightly villous behind, rather longer (‘75 mm.) than the glands 
Ovary ovoid, narrowed into a short style; stigma somewhat bifid. 
Fruit globose, reddish-brown to black, rough, 3—4 cm. in diam., 
shortly apiculate, the basal ring of the fallen perianth very 
narrow. 
PERAK : in dense jungle on low ground under 30 m. above sea- 
level, King’s Collector 6615 !, 8479 !. 
