82 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
lst and 2nd rows rather larger than those of the 3rd row, the upper 
cells small; those of the 3rd row bearing a little above the base 
two large cordate or sagittate glabrous glands; staminodes of the 
4th row slender, 1:25 mm. long, the stalk villous, the tip cordate, 
glabrous. Ovary ovoid nearly glabrous; style rather thick, twisted ; 
stigma with 2—3 recurved lobes. Fruit subglobose, slightly com- 
pressed laterally, about 25 mm. in diam.; pericarp thick, fleshy, the 
lower half immersed in a thick cupule formed by the enlarged per- 
ianth-tube; embryo globose, 15 mm. in diam. Blume Rumph. I. 
42, t.19; Meissn.in DC. Prodr. XV. 1.10; Hook. £. Fl. Br. Ind. V. 130; 
Koord. & Val. Bijdr. X. 73. C. sulphuratum, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. 
Rar. II. 74, and Syst. Laur. 55 im part; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I. i. 891. 
SINGAPORE : at Changi, Ung Mokio, Bukit Timah and Garden 
jungle, Ridley 6453!, 8101!, 15621!; Cantley 22!; Walker 29!. 
DistRis: Java, Borneo (J'eysmann 8687). 
Ridley says flowers of this beautiful plant are very rare ; only one of his 
specimens, without number or locality, possesses them. The description of 
the fruit is taken from Koorders and Valeton. 
10. CINNAMOMUM MOLLISSIMUM, Hook. f. in Fl. Br. Ind. V. 
131 (1886). A large evergreenshrub or small tree reaching 10—12 m. 
in height and 20—30 cm. in diam. of stem, very aromatic; branch- 
lets slender, subquadrangular, brown, lenticellate, puberulous, the 
uppermost and innovations densely villous with pale golden-brown 
spreading hairs as are the ovate leaf-buds,5 mm. long. Leaves chart- 
aceous to coriaceous, opposite or subopposite, frequently bullate ; 
elliptic, elliptic-oblong or -lanceolate, attenuately long acuminate 
at apex and often sphacelate, acute or somewhat rounded at base ; 
upper surface pale green, glabrous except on the ribs of young leaves, 
lower greyish-villous, ultimately nearly glabrous ; margins reflexed ; 
10—25 cm. long, 2°5—10 cm. broad; ribs three, deeply impressed 
above, the outer pair from a little (3—7 mm.) above the base, 
regularly curved almost or quite to the apex; nerves outside these 
4—6 on each side obliquely curving to and along the margin and 
joined in small loops ; transverse nervules distant, irregular, branch- 
ing; reticulation only conspicuous when young; petiole stout, 
densely villous, 10—15 mm. long, channelled above. Flowers cream- 
coloured, smail, in few-flowered long-peduncled densely golden- 
villous panicles 5—10 cm. long; peduncles at least two-thirds of the 
length; branches very few, ending in small 7-flowered dichasia; 
bracts minute, lanceolate; pedicels short; buds globose, grey- 
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