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A tree, reaching 12 to 15 m. in height and 25 to 40 cm. in diameter ; 
branchlets moderately slender, with white bark, lenticellate; leaf- 
buds small, conical, tawny-velvety, without scales. Leaves coria- 
ceous, variable, fascicled at the ends of the branchlets and the one or 
two upper joints as if verticillate ; obovate, acute obtuse or rarely 
acuminate at apex, cuneate at base ; upper surface black when dry, 
glabrous except on the midrib and main nerves ; lower surface puberu- 
lous, glaucous or glaucescent ; 7—15 cm. long, 3—7 em. broad ; 
midrib stout, impressed above, much raised beneath; main nerves 8 
to 10 pairs, occasionally more, prominently impressed above and raised 
beneath, at first at about 45° with the midrib, curved upwards to near 
the margin where they are joined in gradually lessening loops; trans- 
verse nervules few, rather irrezular; reticulations minutely areolate, 
‘raised on both surfaces; petiole stout, 5—15 mm. long or almost 0, 
usually bordered by the decurrent margins of the blade. Flowers very 
small, yellowish, in slender blackish puberulous panicles from the 
upper leaf-axils, up to 10 cm. long and 4 cm. broad ; peduncle 4—5 
em. long; branches slender, dichotomous; cymules few-flowered ; 
pedicels clavate, 2—3 mm. long; buds globose. Perianth-tube 
short; lobes ovate, obtuse, the outer three the shortest, puberulous 
on both sides. Stamens minute ; those of Ist and 2nd rows clavate, 
rounded at apex, densely villous, ‘75 mm. long; those of 3rd row a 
little longer and with 2 large glabrous glands; staminodes of 4th row 
rather large, ovate-cordate, glabrous except a tuft of hairs at base, 
stipitate, 75 mm. long. Ovary rounded-conoidal; style almost none; 
stigma peltate. Fruit an ovoid oblong berry, 2—4 cm. long, seated 
on the enlarged perianth tube and a 2—4 cm. long thick enlarged 
warted pedicel, which is sometimes curved ; pericarp bluish-black, 
smooth. Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. V. 125; Koord. & Val. Bijdr. X. 
203. Haasia cuneata, Nees Syst. Laur. 378. Cryptocarya cuneata, 
Bl, Bijdr. 558. Cyanodaphne cuneata, Bl. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. 
I, 333; Meissn. in DC. Prodr. XV. i. 76; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I. 
926. C. tomentosa, Bl. in Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. I. 334; Mig. Fl. Ind. 
Bat. Suppl. 145. Alseodaphne grandis, Kurz For. Fl. II. 293 (not of 
Nees). Dictyodaphne? Candolieana, Meissn. in DC. l.c. 80. Endian- 
dra? Candolleana, Kurz l.c. 295. 
Perak: at Thaiping, Wray 2099!, 2654!, 3101! ; in dense low- 
level forest near Larut, King’s Collector, 6745!; at Lumut Dinding, 
fiudley 3038 !—Distris. Burma, Java, Sumatra. 
4, DreHaastA CurRTIst1, Gamble in Kew Bull. 151 (1910). A 
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