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oblong anthers and with two cordate or sagittate stipitate glands from 
the base or a little aboveit, the base and the filaments villous ; stam- 
inodes of 4th row cordate-sagittate, glabrous, 1:5 mm. long, villous- 
stipitate. Ovary obovoid, rounded at top, glabrous ; style slender ; 
stigma large, peltate. Fruit an ellipsoid berry, subtruncated at apex, 
10—15 mm. long, 5—7 mm. in diameter, seated on and partly im- 
mersed in the cupular enlarged perianth-tube and persistent lobes, the 
cupule 5 mm. in diameter ; pericarp smooth, dull, obscurely ribbed. 
Blume in Rumph. I. 41, tt. 17,18; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I. i, 897; 
Meissn. in DC. Prodr. XI. i, 19 var. a; Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. 
II. 73; Wall. Cat. 2583 E; Wight Ic. t. 122; Kurz For. Fl. IT. 287; 
ode HT Br? Ind. V:'" 130; Koord:) & | Val! Bijdrt -Xi 752 0 C. 
nitidum, Bl. Rumph. I. 35, t. 15; Hook. f. lc. C. Griffithii, Meissn- 
lc. 19. Laurus nitida Roxb. Fl. Ind. II. 300; Wall. Cat. 2582 excl’ 
B. Laurus malabathrum, Wall. Cat 2583A. 
Penane: Wallich 2573A!; Phillips!; G. King!; Curtis 156! 
1548! 2252!. Province WELLESLEY: Ridley 9381!. PERAK: various 
places up to 1400 m. alt. Wray 274!, 556!, 1222!, 2674!, 2768!, 
3088 !, 3175!, 3328!; King’s Collector 425!, 5705!, 6456!, 6510!, 
7603 ! ; Scortechint 323!,1381!. Senancor: at Bukit Kuta, Good- 
enough 10540!; at Kwala Lumpor, Curtis! Ridley 15581!. Panane: 
at Pekan, Ridley 1144. Matacca: Griffith KD. 4240!, 4242!, 4246!. 
Maingay K.D. 1242!,1243!. Stmyeapore: Hullett 81!; Ridley 3370 }, 
4703 !—Distrisn. Burma, Java, Sumatra, Borneo, etc. 
Kunstler (King’s Collector) has sent from Larut his No. 3861! which seems 
to be undoubtedly this species, but the fruit and fruiting calyx are badly 
distorted by a fungoid disease. 
4. Crnnamomum Ripteyr, Gamble in Kew Bull. 218 (1910). 
An evergreen tree ; branchlets dark purplish-brown, smooth, younger 
angular and grey-puberulous as are the lanceolate buds. Leaves 
chartaceous, opposite or subopposite ; elliptic-lanceolate, long attenu- 
ate-acuminate at apex with a blunt acumen, acute at base; both 
surfaces glabrous, reddish-brown when dry, the upper shining; 
margin cartilaginous ; 10—17 cm. long, 2°5—6 cm. broad; ribs 3, 
prominent, the midrib extending to the extreme apex, the side ribs 
starting from the base or up to about 5 mm. above it and vanishing 
at the base of the acumination ; main nerves none except about 6 
pairs arching outside the side ribs; transverse nervules many, sub- 
parallel, arched ; reticulation obscure; petiole nearly black, 10Q—15 
mm. long. Flowers in grey-tomentose pedunculate axillary or 
