102 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
cotyledons conform to fruit, the apex depressed. Alseodaphne 
panduriformis, Hook. f. in Fl. Br. Ind. V. 145. 
PERAK : Scoriechini 1130!; at Chaukat Sardang and Simpang, 
Wray 742!, 2039!; at Ulu Bubong up 180 m. alt., King’s Collector 
7815!, 10019!, 10433!, 10655!. Snancor: at Labu river, Ridley 
7624!. Matacca: Maingay K.D. 1263!; at Panchor, Goodenough 
1258!; at Brisu, Derry 950!. Panane: at Ayer Etam, Ridley 2413!; 
at Chenei river, Fox 5010!. 
Vern. ‘Poko Rengas’ (Wray); ‘ Medang Kladi’ (Goodenough). 
9. Macutus, Nees. 
Evergreen trees; buds of the inflorescence with imbricate scales : 
leaf-buds lanceolate. Leaves alternate, penni-nerved, minutely reti- 
culate. Flowers small or moderate-sized, hermaphrodite, in slender 
panicles, usually from the axils of upper leaves and appearing 
fascicled. Perianth-tube short or obsolete ; lobes 6, subequal, or 
the outer slightly the smaller, persistent and reflexed or spreading 
in fruit. Stamens 9 perfect, with 4-celled anthers ; those of the Ist 
rew opposite the outer perianth-lobes, introrse, with long filaments 
and ovate or elliptic anther-cells; those of the 2nd row similar, 
introrse, opposite the inner perianth-lobes ; those of the 3rd row 
opposite the Ist row stamens, extrorse, with oblong narrow anthers, 
slender filaments and a pair of stipitate glands at the base; 
staminodes of the 4th row cordate, stipitate, opposite the 2nd row 
stamens. Ovary sessile, narrowed into the style; stigma small or 
discoid. Fruit a globose or oblong berry, seated on the reflexed 
perianth which is hardly enlarged; fruiting pedicel not enlarged. 
—Distris. About 25 species, all Asiatic, chiefly in north and north- 
east India and Burma, extending to China and Japan. 
Macuitus Scortecuinttr, Gamble in Kew Bull. 226 (1910). 
A tree, reaching 12 to 15 m. in height and 40 to 50 cm. in diameter 
of stem; branchlets dark brown, moderately stout, ;iuppermost 
minutely tawny-puberulous as are the small lanceolate leaf-buds; 
scars of the inflorescence bud-scales prominent. Leaves chartaceous ; 
obovate or obovate-oblong, shortly acute at apex, cuneate or atten- 
uate at base; both surfaces dull, glabrous, olive-brown when 
dry; 10—20 cm. long, 4—7 cm. wide; midrib rather slender, 
channelled above, raised beneath; main nerves 8—10 pairs, slightly 
impressed above, raised beneath, at about 70° with the midrib. 
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