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The leaves of this species resemble those of A. peduncularis, but the 
flowers are larger and different in many respects. 
3. ALSEODAPHNE BANCANA, Mig. FI. Ind. Bat. I. i. 915 (1855). 
Tree (?); branchlets moderately thick, greyish-brown, lenticellate 
uppermost more slender; leaf-buds ovate acute, with few shining 
whitish scales. Leaves coriaceous, usually fascicled at the ends of 
the branchlets; obovate, shortly obtusely acuminate at apex, 
cuneate at base; both surfaces glabrous, upper dark olive-green to 
black when dry, lower dull and somewhat reddish puberulous when 
young ; margins slightly recurved ; 10—20 cm. long, 5—9 cm. broad ; 
midrib stout, prominent and raised on both surfaces; main nerves 
10—12 pairs, the lowest faint, impressed above, raised beneath, at 
first nearly straight then curving upwards to meet at about 5 mm. 
from the margin in prominent loops ; transverse nervules few, paral- 
lel; reticulation obscure ; petiole stout, much wrinkled, 10O—15 mm. 
long, bordered by the decurrent margins of the blade. Flowers 
very small, in slender subracemose panicles from the uppermost 
axils, about as long as the leaves ; peduncles slender, 5—8 cm. long ; 
branches short ; cymules 3—5-flowered ; pedicels slender, 4—5 mm. 
long ; buds globose, 2 mm. in diam. Perianth-tube short, lobes 
subequal, the outer rather shorter than the inner, puberulous, obo- 
vate, obtuse. Stamens very minute ; those of Ist and 2nd rows with 
nearly orbicular anthers and short broad pubescent filaments, 
‘75 mm. long; those of 3rd row rather longer and narrower, the 
glands at their base large, white, glabrous ; staminodes of 4th row 
ovate, acute, glabrous without, hairy at back, 5 mm. long. Ovary 
rounded ; style short, thick ; stigma peltate. Fruct a globose berry 
1-5 cm. in diameter, seated on the persistent perianth lobes and 
a not much thickened warty enlarged pedicel; pericarp black, 
smooth, rather thin. Meissn. in DC. Prodr. XI.1i. 28. <A. decipiens, 
Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. V. 145. 
SINGAPORE: Garden jungle and Bukit Timah, Ridley, 3369!, 
4937!; at Chanchukang, Ridley 6156!, 6160!—Distris. Bangka, 
(Horsfield!, Kurz!), Borneo (Haviland 3086 !). 
4, ALSEODAPHNE PETIOLARIS, Hook. f. in Fi. Br. Ind. V. 
145 (1886). A large tree; branchlets subverticillate, very stout, 
lenticellate, dark brown, scurfy; buds short, conical. Leaves 
coriaceous ; oblong or oblong-obovate, abruptly and sharply caudate- 
acuminate at apex, attenuate to nearly rounded at base: both sur- 
