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very short, cordate; staminodes cordate, 1 mm. long, very shortly 
villous-stipitate. Ovary conoidal, glabrous; style slender; stigma 
small, capitate. Fruit oblong or obovoid, nearly black, smooth, 25 
mm. long, 12—15 mm. broad, supported by the very narrow ring of 
the fallen perianth, the pedicels thickened to 3 mm. in diam. ; pericarp 
woody. 
PENANG: on Government Hill at 600 m. alt., Curtis 1015! ; 
SINGAPORE : in garden jungle, Ridley 8075! 
5. BEILSCHMIEDIA SCORTECHINI, Gamble in Kew Bull. 148 
(1910). A tree; branches stout, their bark dark brown, rough, with 
large lenticels; branchlets stout, flattened, rusty-pubescent ; buds 
lanceolate, rusty pubescent, 7 mm. long. Leaves coriaceous, sub- 
opposite; oblong-lanceolate, longitudinally folded when young, acu- 
minate at apex, attenuate at base ; upper surface glabrous except the 
midrib, lower rusty-puberulous when young, afterwards glabrescent 
but still rusty-brown ; 12—20 cm. long, 3—5 cm. broad; midrib very 
stout, scarcely raised on the upper, very much so on the lower, 
surface ; main nerves about 12 pairs, at an angle of about 60° 
with the midrib, gently curved to join in diminishing loops near 
the margin; reticulations irregular, very prominent, netted and 
raised on the upper surface; petiole very stout, rusty-pubescent, 
15—25cm.long. Flowers in axillary rusty-pubescent few-branched 
panicles reaching 12 cm. long and about 6 cm. broad ; peduncle about 
6 cm. long, those of branches about 2 cm.; all branches stout and 
often flattened; pedicels 2 mm. long; bracts and bracteoles very 
small, caducous; flower-buds globose. Perianth-tube campanulate, 
155 mm. long; lobes oblong, 2°5 mm. long, rusty-villous within. 
Stamens of 1st and 2nd rows stout, 2 mm. long, filaments pubescent, 
connective obtuse or emarginate at apex; stamens of 3rd row as 
long as the others but more slender, emarginate at apex, their 2 
basal glands rather large cordate stipitate; staminodes of 4th row 
cordate obtuse, concave in front, pubescent behind, scarcely larger 
than the glands. Ovary puberulous, style rather slender; stigma 
obtuse. Fruit not known. 
PERAK: at Caulfield’s Hill, 1220 m. alt., Scortechini 483! 493!. 
6. BEILSCHMIEDIA LUMUTENSIS, Gamble in Kew Bull. 148 (1910). 
An evergreen tree (?); branchlets slender, glabrous, reddish-brown ; 
buds linear, glabrous. Leaves coriaceous, opposite, prominently reti- 
culate ; elliptic to elliptic-oblong, acute at apex, attenuate at base; 
