98 ’ Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
many, ultimate cymules umbelliform; bracts ovate, tomentose ; 
bracteoles minute; pedicel clavate, 1—2 mm. long; buds globose, 
about 1 mm. in diam., sub-glabrous; flowers reddish. Perianth-lobes 
very small, ovate ; outer 3:5 to 3°75 mm. long, inner three 1—1°25 
mm. long, slightly pubescent within. Stamens minute, villous with 
unicellular hairs, those of Ist and 2nd rows -75 mm. long, rounded 
at top; those of 3rd row similar but slightly larger, with 2 villous 
rounded glands a little behind them; staminodes of 4th row minute, 
ovate, densely villous. Ovary globose, 5 mm.in diam.; styleas long; 
stigma small, peltate. Fruit an oblong obovoid dark purple berry 
about 4 cm. long and 2 cm. in diam., seated on the persistent 
perianth tube and lobes and the very slightly thickened pedicels ; 
pericarp smooth, often spotted, rather thin. Meissn. in DC. Prodr. 
XV. i. 58; Koord. & Val. Bijdr. X.105. WN. chartacea, Bl. l.c. fide 
Koord. & Val. Ocotea umbellifera, Blume Bijdr. 573. Phebe ? 
umbelliflora, Nees Syst. Laur. 115; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I. i. 911. P. 
chartacea, Mig. 1.c. 912. Haasia nitida, Meissn. in DC. le. 61. 
Alseodaphne umbelliflora, Hook. f. in Fl. Br. Ind. V. 145. 
SramESE States: Tongka, Curtis 2933!. PENANG: Batu 
Ferengy, Waterfall and other places, Curtis 1230!, 1536!, 2784!, 
3068!. Perak: in forest near Larut, Thaiping and Goping, King’s 
Collector 3437!, 5897!, 6645!, 7490!, 8484!. Matnacca: Griffith 
K.D. 4253; Maingay K.D. 1247!, 1247-2!, 2515!; Derry 951!; at 
Selandan, Goodenough 1823!. Srycapore: at Chanchukang, &c., 
Ridley 1855!, 2888!, 3934!, 4576!, 6267!.—Distris. Java, Suma- 
tra, Borneo. 
Vern. ‘Medang Linggudi’ (Derry); ‘ Kelah putih’ (Goodenough). . 
Curtis 3665! from Waterfall, Penang, with oblanceolate glabrous leaves 
20 cm. long and an ellipsoid drupe 3 cm. long, the leaves with about 13 pairs 
of main nerves, seems to belong to a species of Nothaphebe near to N. umbelli- 
flora, Blume. 
2. NOTHAPH@BE FRUTICOSA, Gamble in Kew Bull. 223 (1910). 
A shrub reaching 2—2:5 m. in height; branchlets slender, with 
greyish-white bark, uppermost black when dry; leaf-buds linear- 
lanceolate, black, glabrous, 5 mm. long. Leaves membranous, to- 
wards the ends of the branchlets but not crowded; lanceolate or 
oblanceolate, acuminate at apex, cuneate at base; both surfaces 
glabrous except the midrib above, olive-brown when dry; 10—15 
cm. long, 3—5 cm. broad; midrib slender, slightly keeled above ; 
main nerves 8—10 pairs, irregular, curving upwards and sometimes 
