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pedicels very slender, about 5mm. long. Perianth-tube very short, 
scarcely 1 mm. long, glabrous within ; lobes oblong, acute, 2—3 mm. 
long, grey-silky-pubescent on both sides. Stamens slender, 1—2 mm. 
long, the filaments nearly glabrous; those of the Ist and 2nd row, 
with oblong anthers and large cells scarcely overlapping ; those of 
the 3rd row with narrower anthers, the lower cells large the upper 
minute ; the basal glands thick, reniform-cordate, glabrous, stipitates 
attached a little above the base of the filaments; staminodes of 4th 
row sagittate, 1 mm. long, villous-stipitate. Ovary obovoid ; style 
rather thick; stigma peltate. Fruit not seen. 
PENANG : roadsides in the mountains, Deschamps /. SINGAPORE : 
in garden jungle, Ridley 12595! 
Ridley says he believes this to be an introduced plant, perhaps coming 
from 8. India, perhaps from China, but I cannot identify it. 
9. CINNAMOMUM JAVANICUM, Blume Bijdr, 570 (1825). An 
evergreen tree or shrub; branchlets subquadrangular, densely pale 
tawny-tomentose when young, darker and nearly black when old; 
buds small. Leaves chartaceous, subopposite, very prominently 
nerved; elliptic or elliptic-oblong, abruptly long acuminate at the 
apex, cuneate or attenuate at the base; uppersurface shining glabrous 
except on the ribs which are villous when young, bullate between 
the transverse nervules, lower surface long-villous especially on 
the ribs and nervules, the hairs pale brown when young darker 
when old; margin cartilaginous; 17—40 cm. long, 1—12 cm. broad ; 
3-ribbed from about 5 mm. (1—2 cm. when young): above the 
base, the ribs very strong and raised on both surfaces, the midrib 
reaching to the tip of the acumen, the side ribs to a little above 
its base, outside them and close to the margin a regularly looped 
intramarginal nerve; transverse nervules many, regular and straight 
or branched forming ladder-like bars between the ribs and between 
the outer ribs and the looped nerve, impressed above when young, 
not so when old; reticulation minutely netted, prominent when 
young; petiole stout, densely tawny-tomentose, 1—3 cm. long. 
Flowers in tawny-tomentose subsessile fasciculate branched panicles 
up to 15 cm. long; rhachises quadrangular; branches dichotomous, 
ending in dichasia; pedicels stout, up to 3 mm. long; buds oblong, 
up to 5 mm. long. Perianth-tube funnel-shaped, 1—1°5 mm. long, 
thick-walled, pubescent within; lobes ovate-oblong, 3°5—4 mm. 
long, also pubescent within, the mouth nearly closed. Stamens 2 mm. 
long, the filaments broad villous, the anthers elliptic; those of the 
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