64 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
250 m. alt., King’s Collector 4950!, 7360!, 7731!, 8204!, 8655!. 
Matacca: Griffith K.D. 4252!: Maingay K.D. 1274!; at Panchor, 
Goodenough 1264! Srincarore: at Turong, Ridley 10760 !.—DistRtB. 
Java, Sumatra, Borneo (Haviland and Hose 3090!, 3091!, 3332!, 
3655 !). 
2. DEHAASIA NIGRESCENS, Gamble in Kew Bull. 150 (1916). A 
tree, reaching 10—12 m. in height; branchlets slender, greyish-white, 
uppermost black when dry; leaf-buds black, lanceolate, without 
scales. Leaves chartaceous; lanceolate or oblanceolate, bluntly long- 
acuminate at apex, attenuate at base; both surfaces dark brown to 
black when dry, dull on the upper, glabrous; 8—13 cm. long, 3—4 
cm. broad; midrib slender; mainnerves 8—10 pairs at 40°—50° with 
the midrib, slender, curving upwards to meet in loops near the 
margin; reticulations irregular, inconspicuous ; petiole slender, 1—2 
em. long. Flowers very small, in panicles from the uppermost leaf- 
axils, slender, glabrous, up to 10 cm. long; peduncle long; branches 
few, at right angles to rhachis, dichotomous ; pedicels clavate; buds 
globose. Perianth-tube cup-shaped, continuous with the pedicel; 
lobes small, the 3 outer triangular ‘75 mm. long, the 3 inner twice as 
long and ovate, all minutely golden-pubescent without, golden-villous 
within. Stamens of lst and 2nd row clavate, ‘75 mm. long; connec- 
tive obtuse; filaments villous; those of 3rd row similar and a little 
longer having 2 large cordate glabrous glands behind at the base ; 
staminodes of 4th row ‘5 mm. long, cordate, rather smaller than the 
glands. Ovary globose; style short; stigma obtuse. Fruita black 
obovate-ellipsoid drupe 2 cm. long by 1 cm. in diam., seated on the 
enlarged obconical, straight or curved, bright zed (when dry—black), 
pedicel which is surmounted by the persistent perianth-lobes. 
PENANG: on Government Hill, at 300 to 600 m. alt., Curtis 
1183! Srneapore: Garden jungle, Ridley 13017! 
I have taken a long time over the stamens of this species. The material 
afforded very few flowers and though most of the anthers were distinctly only 
2-celled, I found a few which seemed to me to be as clearly 4-celled. The 
anthers are exceedingly minute and are villous so that it is difficult to exa- 
mine them, and though I believe I am right in placing it in Dehaasia, it is 
quite possible that fresh specimens examined in the field may make its trans- 
fer to Nothaphebe necessary. It is noticeable that Curtis’ material though all 
bearing the No. 1183 was certainly collected on different occasions and from 
different trees, some at 300 m., some at 600 m. 
3. DEHAASIA CUNEATA, Blume Rumph. I. 164, t. 46 (1835). 
