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‘lids upeurved; stamens of the 3rd and 4th rows reduced to short 
thick staminodes as large as the fertile anthers and produced above 
them. Ovary ovoid, sessile, quite smooth, narrowed into a very short 
style; stigma minute. Fruit ovoid, seated on the persistent and 
accrescent perianth and stamens.—Distris. One species. 
1. Mrcrorora Curtisi, Hook f. Ic. Plant. t. 1547 (1886). An 
evergreen tree, reaching 12 to 18 m. in height and 40 to 50 cm. in dia- 
meter of stem; branchlets slender, corky, sreyish-brown, lenticellate, 
puberulous ; buds long-conical; scales lanceolate, tawny-villous. Leaves 
thinly coriaceous, membranous when young and then black when dry ; 
elliptic, acute at apex, attenuate at base ; both surfaces reticulate-areo- 
late, reddish-brown, glabrous except on the midrib beneath ; 6—13 
- em. long, 3—6 cm. broad ; midrib prominent, nearly flat above, raised 
beneath ; main nerves 8 to 10 pairs, curved gently to the margin 
and there joined by loops, raised on the lower surface, joined by an 
elegant network of reticulatious ; petiole 10—20 mm. long. Flowers 
in snort few-flowered tawny-puberulous racemes or panicles 2—3 cm. 
long ; bracts lanceolate, 1—2 mm. long; pedicels as long; buds glo- 
bose, as are the flowers which are 2—2'5 mm. in diam., light yellow 
when fresh. Perianth-tube flat; lobes orbicular, about | mm. long, 
ciliate ; stamens and staminodes puberulous and ciliate. Ovary 
glabrous. Fruit ovoid, rugose, 3—4 mm. long (immature); accres- 
cent perianth and stamens nearly 2 mm. thick. Hook f. Fl. Br. Ind. 
V. 862. Hexapora Curtisti, Hook. f., l.c. 189. 
PENANG: at Government Hill, 300 m., Curtis 525!, 1214!; 
Ridley (?) 3153!. Perak: open jungle near Larut, at 250—300 m. 
King’s Collector 5215!. Panane: Kwala Triang, Lubu Lanjoot, on 
the Pahang river (Ridley in Trans. Linn. Soc. 2nd Ser. ili, 341). 
I have quoted Ridley’s Pahang citation; but the specimens in the Singa- 
pore Herbarium from Kwala Triang (No. 2273) and Lubu Lanjoot are not 
those of Mzcropora, but of a species of Beilschmiedia. 
Tribe V. CINNAMOME. 
6. Crinnamomum, Blume. 
Evergreen trees or shrubs, usually with aromatic bark. Leaves 
opposite, sub-opposite or alternate, 3-ribbed or (Sect. CAMPHORA) 
penninerved. Flowers small, hermaphrodite or by abortion polyga- 
mous, in axillary or subterminal panicles or sometimes lateral at the 
base of the youngest shoots, the branches usually endingin dichasia, the 
