78 flora of the Maiayan Peninsuta, 
lateral branching panicles up to 10 cm. long on the upper branchlets ; 
branches subopposite, slender, ending in 7-flowered dichasia ; bracts 
minute, lanceolate, deciduous; pedicels slender; buds obovate. 
Perianth-tube short, villous within; lobes ovate, 2°5 mm. long, 
villous within. Stamens with subglabrous filaments; those of the 
lst and 2nd rows 2 mm. long, spathulate, with oblong anthers and 
small upper cells; those of the 3rd row also 2 mm. long, bearing a 
pair of cordate sessile glands attached near the middle of the fila- 
ments ; staminodes of 4th row cordate, 1 mm. long, villous-stipitate. 
Ovary ovoid, glabrous; style slender; stigma peltate, lobed. Fruit 
ovoid, apiculate, 10 mm. long, 7—8 mm. in diameter, seated on the 
cup-shaped glabrous enlarged perianth-tube about 5 mm. in diam. 
at mouth, the mouth entire, the lobes deciduous; pericarp black 
when dry, shining. 
SINGAPORE: at Changi road, Ridley 4823 !. - 
This species has puzzled me much: it comes near C. viminewm in the 
acumination of the leaves and in inflorescence it resembles C. Lampongum and 
C. rhyncophyllum which are very near each other. The fruiting sheet (Herb. 
Singap.) bears on its label only ‘ Singapore’ but no collector’s name. The leaves 
resemble those of C. pauciflorum, but the inflorescence is quite different. 
5. CINNAMOMUM RHYNCOPHYLLUM, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I. i. 
895 (1855). Asmall tree reaching 15 m. in height of stem and a dia- 
meter of 30—40 cm. ; branchlets slender, subtetragonous, pale brown 
or greyish, uppermost grey-puberulous as are the conical leaf-buds. 
Leaves chartaceous, opposite or subopposite, aromatic, smelling of 
cardamoms (Wray); elliptic or elliptic-oblong, the apex with a long 
(1—2 cm.) straight or oblique acumen obtuse at tip, the base acutely 
attenuate ; both surfaces very pale when dry, glabrous, the upper 
shining, the lower dull glaucescent ; 12—18 cm* long, 4—6 em. broad; 
ribs 3 prominent, the outer pair from the top of the petiole some- 
times following the margin for a short distance, then about half-way 
between the midrib and margin to end just below the acumen ; nerves 
outside this pair many, oblique or not, joining in an intramarginal 
looped nerve; transverse nervules many, regular, subparallel, slightly 
arched ; reticulation finely areolate ; petiole rather stout, 7—14 mm. 
long. Flowers pale yellow, waxy-looking, in grey-tomentose pedun- 
culate axillary branching panicles up to 17 cm. long; branches 
many, subopposite, slender, ending in 7-flowered dichasia, the 
middle flowers usually the largest and perhaps alone fruit-bearing ; 
bracts lanceolate, minute, caducous ; pedicels slender ; buds globose. 
