92 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
faces glabrous, dark brown when dry, reticulate; margins slightly 
recurved ; 20—30 cm. long, 12—18 cm. broad ; midrib stout, im- 
pressed above, much raised beneath ; main nerves 8—12 pairs, at 
first straight then curved to join in loops near the margin; trans- 
verse nervules many, prominent, enclosing the much netted reticu- 
lation, all the nerves and nervules raised on both surfaces ; petiole 
very stout, 3—6 cm. long. lowers in stout panicles reaching 
20—30 cm. in length from the axils of the upper leaves, the branches 
rusty-puberulous, ascending ; pedicels short, gradually thickening ; 
bracts minute, caducous. Perianth-tube funnel-shaped, 1—1°5 mm. 
long; lobes subequal, 2°5 mm. long, rusty-puberulous without. 
Siamens short, nearly glabrous or only with sparse rusty hairs on the 
filaments, those of the 1st and 2nd rows obtuse, 1:5 mm. long ; those 
of the 3rd row 2 mm. long with a pair of large glabrous glands at 
the base behind ; staminodes of the 4th row ovate, small, sometimes 0. 
Ovary ovoid; style thick, puberulous; stigma large, capitate. 
Fruit an oblong-ellipsoid drupe 4—5 cm. long, 2 em. in diam., the 
pericarp black when dry, supported on the persistent perianth-lobes, 
the pedicels thickened only to about 3 mm. in diam., rugose and 
scurfy. Nothaphebe ? petiolaris, Meissn. in DC. Prodr. XV. 1. 59. 
PaHane: at Telom, Ridley 13782 !—Distris. India (Assam), 
Burma. 
5. ALSEODAPHNE PALUDOSA, Gamble in Kew Bull. 221 (1910). 
A very large tree reaching 24—30 m. in height and about 1 m. in 
diameter of stem; branchlets very stout, rough, dark grey ; leaf- 
buds conical, glabrous, about 5 mm. long, with many outer scales. 
Leaves very coriaceous, fascicled at the ends of the branchlets ; 
obovate, obtuse or rather deeply emarginate at apex, long-cuneate 
at base; upper surface glabrous shining, lower glaucous; margins 
recurved ; 20—25 cm. long, 7—9 cm. broad; midrib very stout, 
slightly raised above and prominently channelled, nearly flat be- 
neath; main nerves 15 to 17 pairs, rather faint, impressed above, 
slightly raised beneath, lower ones at about 50° with the midrib, 
upper at 70°, only curved near the margin or hardly looped; 
transverse nervules few, irregular, not visible on the upper surface ; 
reticulation minutely areolate, indistinct beneath, invisible above ; 
petiole stout, 3—4 cm. long, bordered by the decurrent margins of 
the blade. lowers imperfectly known; fruiting inflorescence of 
racemose panicles from the uppermost axils reaching 10—15 cm. in 
length; peduncles and rhachis prominently warted; enlarged pedi- 
