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SeLanaor: at 15th mile Pahang track at about 300 m. alt., 
Ridley 8532 ! 
8. ALSEODAPHNE PENDULIFOLIA, Gamble in Kew Bull. 222 
(1910). A tree, reaching a height of 12 to 18 m. and a diameter of 
stem of 20—40 cm.; branchlets very stout, at least 10 mm. in 
diam. at apex, scarred and wrinkled; leaf-buds ovoid, glabrous, 
5 mm. long, with spreading scales. Leaves sub-membranous, fas- 
cicled at the ends of the branchlets and ‘ hanging downwards in the 
shape of an umbrella’ (King’s Collector); obovate or oblanceolate, 
obtuse or very shortly acuminate at apex, long cuneate at base; both 
surfaces dull, reddish-brown when dry, the lower paler, glabrous ; 
17—35 cm. long, 5—ll cm. broad; midrib slender, little raised on 
either surface; main nerves 15 to 20 pairs, slender, curving upwards 
to and along the margin, joined by many rather irregular transverse 
nervules and then again by an irregularly areolate reticulation, 
prominent under the lens especially beneath ; petiole slender, curved, 
2—4 em. long, bordered above by the decurrent margins of the 
blade. Flowers pale yellow, about 5 mm. broad when open; in long, 
very lax glabrous subracemose panicles from the axils of the fas- 
cicled leaves, and nearly as long as the leaves ; peduncle rhachis and 
branches somewhat flattened, black when dry ; branches slender, few- 
flowered, ending in 3-flowered umbels; pedicels slender, clavate at 
tip, 7 mm. long; buds glabrous, obconic. Perianth-tube funnel- 
shaped, thick; lobes ovate acute, the outer 1 mm. the inner 2 mm. 
long, sparsely silky within. Stamens 1:5—2 mm. long, with the 
anther-cells unequal, the upper pair very small; those of the Ist and 
2nd rows with ovate anthers and broad puberulous filaments; those 
of the 3rd row with oblong anthers, the upper cells minute, the fila- 
ments puberulous, and the 2 reniform glabrous large glands subses- 
sile a little above the broad filament base; staminodes of 4th row 
cordate, glabrous, broadly stipitate. Ovary ovoid, attenuate into 
the short style; stigma small, obtuse. Fruit (very immature) a 
globose glabrous drupe seated on the enlarged perianth and its 
enlarged pedicel. 
PERAK: in dense forest, chiefly of bamboo, near Ulu Bubong 
and Ulu Kerling, up to 200 m. alt., King’s Collector 8785!, 10623!. 
Without locality, Burn-Murdoch in Herb. Singap. Vern. ‘ Medang 
Payong’ ! 
Species imperfectly known. 
9. ALSEODAPHNE CRASSIPES, Hook f. Fl. Br. Ind. V. 146 
(1886), A tree?, branchlets stout, woody, with ashy bark, upper- 
