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the stem 40 to 60 cm. in diameter; branchlets rather thick, glabrous, 
with white shining bark, lenticellate ; leaf-buds conical, glabrous, up to 
1 cm. long with few black scales. Leaves chartaceo-coriaceous, alter- 
nate; elliptic- oblong or -obovate or -oblanceolate, acute or acuminate 
at apex, cuneate or attenuate or sometimes unequally rounded at 
base; both surfaces glabrous, pale olive-green and shining when dry ; 
15—40 cm. long, 7—17 cm. broad; midrib stout, broad, prominent 
beneath; main nerves irregularly spaced, 9—15 pairs, usually 12, 
the lowest 1 or 2 pairs near the base, the rest more distantly 
spaced, all curving upwards to and along the margin where 
they meet in short loops, slightly impressed and keeled on the 
upper surface, prominent and white on the lower, joined by 
irregular transverse nervules and indistinct reticulations; petiole 
rather stout, channelled above, 1—3 cm. long. Flowers in erect, 
glabrous or slightly puberulous, reddish panicles from the upper axils 
and. especially from below the terminal leaf-buds, 10 to 20 cm. long, 
56cm. broad; peduncles usually short, angular; branches at right 
angles to the rhachis, 1—2 cm. long, flattened, dichotomously 
branched; bracts small, ovate; bracteoles triangular; pedicels 
clavate, 2—5 mm. long; flower-buds ovoid; flowers yellowish-white. 
Pervanth-tube very short, continuous with the pedicel; lobes 6, the 
outer 3 triangular, 1—1°5 mm. long, the inner 3 ovate, rounded, 2—3 
mm. long, all glabrous or very minutely puberulous without. Stamens 
of the first and second rows 2°5 mm. long, filaments broad, white- 
villous, anthers short, the cells small, connective depressed at tip ; 
stamens of 3rd rowsimilar but rather longer, furnished a little behind 
their bases with glabrous sessile glands; staminodes of 4th row want- - 
ing. Ovary and slender style 2°55 mm. long; stigma obtuse. Berry 
black, oblong-ellipsoid, 4 cm. long; 2 cm. broad, seated on the much 
enlarged trigonous obconicscarlet-warted 2—3cm. long pedicel which 
is surmounted by the persistent perianth-lobes ; pericarp shining, 
thin; embryo depressed at apex. Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. V. 126; 
Koord. & Val. Bijdr. X. 201. D. squarrosa, Zoll. et Mor.in Zoll. Cat. 
113, 115; Hassk. Retz. i. 8; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 929, Haasia micro- 
carpa, Nees Syst. Laur. 373; Meissn. in DC. Prodr. XV. i. 60; Mig. 
lc. 928. H. tncrassata, Nees Syst. Laur. 376; Mig. l.c. 930. Laurus 
incrassatus, Jack in Mal. Misc. ii. No. 7. 33 (ex Wall. Cat. 2589), 
Persea incrassaia, Nees Syst. Laur. 127. Machilus incrassatus, Nees 
in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. ii. 70, 
PERAK: Scortechinit 1842!; at Gunong Kerbang, Ridley 14738!; 
at Trong, Wray 3188!; in dense forest, chiefly on limestone, up to 
