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curving to the margin, the upper ones joined in loops; transverse 
nervules irregular; reticulation prominently areolate under the 
lens; petiole slender, glabrous, 1—2 cm. long, channelled above. 
Flowers small, yellow, 6mm. in diameter when open, in peduncu- 
late grey-tawny pubescent axillary panicles reaching 10—20 cm. 
long; peduncles about one-third of the length of the panicle ; 
branches spreading, dichotomous, subcorymbose, endingin 3-flowered 
dichasia ; pedicels slender, 2—3 mm. long; buds globose. Perianth- 
tube very short; lobes subequal, ovate acute, densely tawny-tomen- 
tose without, sericeous within, 2—3 mm.long. Stamens slender ; 
filaments silky-pubescent; those of lst and 2nd rows 2 mm. 
long with ovate obtuse anthers; those of 3rd row as long, with 
oblong anthers and glabrous reniform stipitate glands ; staminodes 
‘of 4th row cordate, villous-stipitate, 1 mm. long. Ovary oblong; 
style slender ; stigma obtuse, small. Fruit not known. 
Perak : Scortechint 492!; an high mountains near Thaiping 
at 1000 to 1500 m. alt., King’s Collector 8413 !. 
The fruit being unknown it is impossible to say for certain whether this 
species belong to Phabe or Machilus; but it has more the habit of Machilus 
than of Phebe. 
10. PHapez, Nees. 
Evergreen trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, often fascicled at 
the ends of the branchlets, penni-nerved (in Asiatic species); leaf- 
buds lanceolate or ovate, with few and usually spreading scales, 
sometimes with none. lowers hermaphrodite or rarely polygamous, 
in pedunculate panicles from the upper leaf-axils as if fascicled, the 
branches dichasioid. Perianth-tube short ; lobes 6 subequal, the 
outer 3 somewhat shorter than the inner, spreading at flowering, 
afterwards closing, erect and enlarged. Perfect stamens 9, with 
4-celled ovate-oblong anthers; those of the 1st row opposite the outer 
perianth lobes, with elliptic introrse anthers, and slender filaments ; 
those of the 2nd row similar and also introrse, opposite the inner 
perianth-lobes; those of the 3rd row ‘opposite those of the Ist row 
but extrorse, often rather longer and more slender, bearing at or 
a little above their bases two large stipitate glabrous glands; stami- 
nodes of the 4th row opposite the 2nd row stamens, cordate or 
sagittate, stipitate, glabrous within. Ovary sessile, usually globose ; 
style slender; stigma obtuse. Fruit an ovoid, ellipsoid or globose 
berry, seated on a cup formed of the enlarged erect persistent 
