60 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
when dry, 12—15 mm. long, 7—8 mm. broad; pericarp thick; 
cotyledons separated by a false dissepiment; pedicels scarcely en- 
larged ; ring of fallen perianth pale. 
Perak: Scortechini!; dense jungle on hills at 150—250 m. alt., 
King’s Collector 8489!, 10026!, 10432!. 
10. BEILSCHMIEDIA PENANGIANA, Gamble in Kew Bull. 149 
(1910). An evergreen tree, reaching 10—12 m. in height; branchlets 
white with smooth shining bark, lenticels oblong; buds perulate. 
Leaves subcoriaceous, alternate or subopposite; elliptic or elliptic 
lanceolate, very obtusely acuminate at apex, acuminate at base ; 
both surfaces glabrous, reddish-brown when dry, upper shining ; 
7—10 cm. long, 3—4 cm. broad; midrib broad, depressed on the 
upper surface; main nerves 10—12 pairs, irregular, much branched 
and joining in loops well within the margin, .prominent on both 
surfaces; transverse nervules also prominent, branched, enclosing the 
obscure reticulation; petiole broad, -5—1 cm. long, the upper part 
bordered by the decurrent margins of the blade. Flowers in very 
short axillary bracteate racemes, the buds strobilate with orbicular 
fimbriate much gland-dotted slightly puberulous bracts, each en- 
closing one flower supported by two lanceolate acuminate fimbriate 
bracteoles 1-5 mm. long, the bracts and bracteoles afterwards cadu- 
cous ; pedicels thick. Perianth-lobes ovate,. obtuse, ciliate, gland- 
dotted, 1 mm. long, sub-equal. Stamens of 1st and 2nd row 1 mm. 
long, glabrous, on thick filaments ; those of 3rd row similar with a 
pair of suborbicular stipitate glands close to the bases of the fila- 
ments ; staminodes of 4th row cordate, very shortly stipitate, -5 mm. 
long. Ovary globose, glabrous; style short; stigma obtuse. Fruit 
not known. 
PENANG: at Penara Bukit at 300 m. alt., Curtis 1098 ! 
Species imperfectly known. 
11. BEILSCHMIEDIA MEMBRANACEA, Gamble in Kew Bull. 150 
(1910). A small tree, reaching 4 to 6 m. in height and the stem 7 to 
15 cm. in diameter ; branchlets slender, grey, softly blackish-puberu- 
lous, innovations rusty-tomentose, as are the small ovoid buds. Leaves 
membranous, alternate; elliptic or elliptic-ovate. obtusely acute at 
apex, attenuate or slightly and unequally rounded at base ; both sur- 
faces olive-green when dry, somewhat shining, glabrous except on the 
midrib and main nerves; 10—15 cm. long, 5—8 cm. broad; midrib 
slender, raised on both suriaces; main nerves 9 to 11 pairs, starting at 
