90 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
Penance: Wallich 2596!. Perak: Wray 3632!, 3683!, 3792!; 
Scortechini 536!; near Ulu Kerling and Ulu Selangor at 120 to 
240 m. alt., King’s Collector 7916!, 8632!, 8836!. SELANGOR: at 
Labu and Petaling, Ridley 7622!, 8492!; at Kwala Lumpur, 
Mohamed 1908! 
2, ALSEODAPHNE WRaAYI, Gamble in Kew Bull. 220 (1910). A 
tree. reaching 30 m. in height and a considerable girth; branchlets 
rather slender with greyish-white bark; leaf-bids lanceolate acu- 
minate nearly 1 cm. long, black, with few scales. Leaves mem- 
branous, somewhat clustered at the ends of the branchlets; ellip- 
tic-lanceolate, obtusely rather long acuminate at apex, narrowed at 
base; upper surface glabrous, dull, olive-brown when dry, lower 
minutely puberulous and punctate finally glabrous; 7—12 cm. 
long, 3—5 cm. broad ; midrib slender, slightly impressed and keeled 
above, raised beneath; main nerves 10—12 pairs raised beneath, 
rather irregular and usually oblique, curving to branch and meet 
near the margin in irregular loops; transverse nervules and 
reticulation clear but not prominent; petiole 1—1-°5 cm. long, 
channelled above. Flowers pale green, about 5 mm. in diam. in 
pedunculate branching slender grey-puberulous panicles from the 
upper leaf-axils, about as long as the leaves and reaching 10 cm. 
in length and 5 cm. in breadth ; peduncles slender, 4 to 5 cm. long ; 
branch peduncles also slender, cymules 3—5-flowered ; pedicels 
very slender, somewhat clavate, about 7 mm. long; bracts ovate, 
caducous; bracteoles minute, triangular; buds globose. Perzanth- 
tube short, cup-shaped ; lobes subequal or the outer very slightly the 
shorter, up to 2 mm. long, puberulous within as without. Stamens 
of Ist and 2nd rows slender, clavate, 2 mm. long, the filaments and 
connective villous; stamens of 3rd row as long but more slender 
and the 2 upper anther-cells very inconspicuous, glands at the base 
ovoid glabrous rather large; staminodes of 4th row oblong, glabrous 
except the tuft of hair at the base, about as large as the glands. 
Ovary ovoid, glabrous; style slender; stigma peltate. Fruit a 
globose or slightly ellipsoid berry 1:5 cm. in diam., seated on the 
persistent reflexed perianth and a clavate subtrigonous enlarged 
fleshy pedicel 2 cm. long; pericarp black, shining, thin; embryo 
depressed at apex. 
Perak: at Kota, Wray 2543!; in forest near Larut, King’s 
Collector 54931, 5917! 
