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in prominent loops; secondary nerves often prominent, branching 
into the prominently widely netted reticulations which are raised on 
both surfaces when dry; petiole very stout, rough, 1—2 cm. long. 
Flowers in axillary panicles up to 6 cm. long, usually ascending, the 
peduncle and divaricating branches stout, purplish rusty-pubescent, 
often flattened; bracts ovate-cblong, caducous; pedicels stout, 
densely purplish pubescent, 2—3 mm. long; in young fruit the scar 
of the fallen perianth making a white ring. Perianth-tube very 
short, spreading, flattened ; lobes linear oblong, 3 mm. long, sparsely 
purplish-villous within. Stamens slender, those of the outer rows 
linear, 2 mm. long, pubescent; those of the inner row similar but 
slightly longer, the glands cordate, -75 mm. long; staminodes also 
cordate on pubescent filaments, 1—1°5 mm. long. Ovary conoidal, 
glabrous; style slender; stigma small, capitate. Fruit notseen. B. 
Roxburghiana B ? malaccensis, Meissn. in DC. Prodr. XV. i. 63. 
Mauacca: Griffith!; Maingay K. D. 1260!. Srycarore: at 
Bukit Timah, Ridley 4424! 
4, BEILSCHMIEDIA CurtTIsir, Gamble in Kew Bull. 148 (1910). A 
tree, reaching 15 to 20 m. in height; branchlets very stout, densely 
dark rusty-tomentose; leaf-buds ovoid with pale tomentum on the 
few scales. Leaves coriaceous, alternate; elliptic, rounded at apex 
with a very short acuminate point, rounded or obtusely acute at 
base ; upper surface shining, olive green when dry, glabrous except 
on the midrib and main nerves, lower surface dark reddish-brown, 
rusty-villous throughout, tomentose on the nerves ; margins recurved ; 
15—30 cm. long, 8—13 cm. broad ; midrib stout, impressed and often 
keeled above, prominent beneath; main nerves 10 to 12 pairs, im- 
pressed above, prominently raised beneath, leaving the midrib at 
about 60° and only slightly curving to very close to the margin 
where they, at any rate the uppermost, join in loops; secondary 
nerves few, short; transverse nervules rather irregular and distant ; 
reticulations visible on the upper surface as a prominently raised 
network; petiole very stout, rusty-tomentose, 2—3 cm. long. Flow- 
ers in short axillary rusty-tomentose corymbose panicles up to about 
2-5 em. long, elongating in fruit; bracts ovate, obtuse, caducous ; 
pedicels rather slender, 1:5—2 mm. long. Perianth-tube obconical ; 
lobes ovate or oblong, the outer slightly the larger, prominently rusty 
hispid-villous, 3—3°5 mm. long. Stamens slender, those of the 
outer rows 1‘5—2 mm. long, obtuse, the cells oblong, the filaments 
villous; those of the third row rather longer but similar, the glands 
