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with nearly orbicular anthers and short slightly villous filaments, 
‘75 mm. long ; those of the 3rd row 1:25 mm. long, very obtuse, with 
2 large reniform subsessile glands attached near the base outside the 
villous filaments ; staminodes of the 4th row cuneiform or sagittate, 
stipitate, villous outside, 1 mm. long. Ovary ovoid, glabrous ; style 
short ; stigma large, peltate. Fruit a globose berry about 7 mm. in 
diam. seated on the truncate spreading cup-shaped enlarged perianth- 
tube, the fruiting pedicel long-funnel-shaped ; exocarp thick, succu- 
lent, dark purple ; endocarpcrustaceous. Seed spherical; testa mem- 
branous ; cotyledons hemispherical, enclosing the minute radicle. 
Kurz For. Fl. II. 289; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. V. 185; Koord. & 
Val. Bijdr. XI. 82. C. pseudo-Sassafras, Meissn. 1. c. 27. C. 
? malaccense, Meissn.1.c. 27. C. Neesitanum, Meissn.1.c. 26. Par- 
thenoxylon porrectum, pseudo-Sassafras and pruinosum, Blume in 
Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. I. 323; Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. I. 1. 967. Cam- 
phora Parihenoxylon, Nees in Wali. Pl. As. Rar. II. 76; Benth. FI. 
Hongk. 290. C. pseudo-Sassafras, Miq. in Zoll. Cat. 113, 114. 
C. chinensis, Nees Syst. Laur. 92. Sassafras Parthenoxylon, Nees 
Syst. Laur. 491; Wight Ic. t. 1832 (copied from Roxb.). Persea 
pseudo-Sassafras, Zoll. in Nat. Gen. Arch. Il. 635. Laurus Parthen- 
oxylon, Jack in Mal. Misc. I. 28; Wall. Cat. 2602. L. pseudo-Sassa- 
fras, Bl. Bijdr. 573. L. porrecta, Roxb. Fl. Ind. II. 308. Phebe 
latifolia, Champ. in Kew Journ. Bot. V. 197. 
Penanc: Wallich 2602!; Curtis 512!, 1038!, 1406!; J. Scott. ; 
King’s Collector 1456!. Province WELLESLEY: at Tasik Glugor, 
Ridley 6968!, 12585!. Dinpinas: at Pangkore, Ridley 8377!. 
PERAK: at Lumut Dindings, Ridley 3044!; at Kinta and Gunong 
Bubu, King’s Collector 7120!, 8354!; at lower camp, Gunong Batu 
Pateh, Wray 1072!. Matacca: Maingay K.D. 1244!, 1512!. 
Distris. Burma, Java, Sumatra, China. 
In Herb. Singapore is a sheet collected by F. Dennys at Gunong Menkong 
Labar in the Federated States. The specimen has no flowers or fruit but the 
leaves are remarkable for being very thick. eaves opposite or subopposite, 
very coriaceous; ovate, obtusely acuminate at apex, rounded at base and 
slightly decurrent; glabrous and shining on both surfaces; margins flat ; 
ribs 3, flat, with a slender quite basal additional pair close to the margin and 
soon forming a looped intramarginal nerve ; the inner ribs alongside the midrib 
for about 1 cm. then leaving it to curve upwards to about ? of the length 
of the blade when they meet.the first main nerves and break into loops; 
main nerves from midrib 3—1 pairs, faint, below them prominent not parallel 
transverse nervules; outside the ribs 6 or more outer nerves, short, meeting 
the intramarginal one; reticulation prominent, beautifully areolate ; length 
