94 Flora of the Malayam Peninsula. 
3 shorter than the inner 3 which are 2°5—3 mm. long and ovate. 
Stamens rather slender, those of the Ist and 2nd rows 2 mm. long, 
clavate; those of 3rd row similar but larger, and with 2 rather large 
glabrous glands at the base; staminodes of 4th row ovate-cordate, 
glabrous on the inner, villous on the outer face and on the short 
stalk; 1—1:5 mm. long. Jruwit shining, glabrous, bright green, 
chestnut brown when dry, oblong-ellipsoid, obtuse, reaching 3°5 cm. 
in length and 2 cm. in diam. ; seated on the much enlarged perianth- 
tube which then assumes the form of an annular flattened disk nearly 
2 cm. in diam., this again is supported by the clavate, flattened or 
trigonous, enlarged pedicel 2 cm. long, green mottled with brown spots 
when fresh, glaucescent and prominently warted when dry. 
Perak: near Larut in dense forest up to 300 m. alt., King’s 
Collector 6608 :, 6958!, 7273!, 8451! 
7. ALSEODAPHNE RIDLEYI, Gamble in Kew Bull. 222 (1910). 
A medium-sized tree; branchlets very stout, light brown, lenti- 
cellate ; leaf-buds short, with many scales. Leaves very coriaceous, 
clustered at the ends of the branchlets ; elliptic- oblong or -obovate, 
often unequal-sided, obtuse or very minutely apiculate at apex, 
rounded or attenuate at base; both surfaces glabrous, the upper 
shining, the lower glaucous ; 13—25 cm. long, 5—13 ecm. broad ; 
midrib very stout, flattened above or slightly raised, raised beneath ; 
main nerves 12 to 15 pairs, irregular, at from 60° to 70° with the 
midrib, curving to and along the margin but scarcely looped, very 
slightly raised above, more so beneath, joined by irregular transverse 
nervules and an areolate reticulation hardly visible above but more 
prominent beneath ; petiole very stout, enlarged and wrinkled at base, 
2—4 cm. long, upper part bordered by the decurrent blade-margins. 
Flowers in glabrous panicles from the upper leaf axils, the panicles 
reaching 10 cm. long and 5 cm. broad; peduncle rather short, flat- 
tened; branches few, 3-chotomous; bracts ovate acute 2—3 cm. 
long ; cymules few-flowered ; pedicels clavate, enormously thickened 
in fruit as is the rhachis; buds globose. Perianth-tube short; 
lobes ovate, the outer slightly smaller. Stamens very small, clavate, 
rounded; glands of 3rd series ovoid ; staminodes of 4th series ovate, 
glabrous. Fruit a very large oblong ellipsoid berry with depressed 
top, 7—8 cm. long and about 4 em. in diameter, seated on the much 
thickened pedicel which is often 1—5 cm. thick at top ; pericarp 
%—5 mm. thick, densely covered as are the enlarged rhachis and 
pedicel with tawny-brown scurf and raised pustules. 
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