104 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
perianth-lobes ; cotyledons fleshy, the embryo conform to the fruit.— 
DistRrB. Species about 20, in India and Malaya, with a further 
14 American. 
Leaves lanceolate, glabrous or nearly so. 
Leaves long-acuminate, main nerves 10—15 pairs ; 
perianth glabrous; berry ovoid; filamentsvillous 1. P. lanceolata. 
Leaves obtusely -acuminate, main nerves 7—10 
pairs; perianth glabrous or slightly puberulous, 
berry globose; filaments glabrous .. 2. P. declinata. 
Leaves obovate, hairy 
Flowers rather large, 1 em. broad when open. 
Leaves chartaceous, cuneate at base; ferruginous- 
pubescent beneath; perianth densely ferrugin- 
ous-tomentose 5 5 .. 3. P. macrophylla. 
Leaves coriaceous, rarely RON a base, glau- 
cescent and minutely puberulous beneath only; 
perianth greyish tomentose : .. 4, P. Kunstleri. 
Flowers small, under 6 mm. broad Ghien open. 
Leaves coriaceous, shortly cuneate or attenuate 
at base; perianth densely tawny-pubescent ; 
panicles up to 25 cm. long ae iD saclae GDUCH- 
Leaves thinly coriaceous, long cuneate at base; 
perianth grey-tomentose; panicles up to 10 
em. long only xe a5 .. 6. P. cuneata. 
i. Pape tanczonata, Nees Syst. Laur. 109 (1836). A small 
evergreen tree; branchlets slender, with yellowish-white bark, 
young ones black when dry, villous, with persistent linear tawny- 
pubescent leafy scales; leaf-buds lanceolate with similar scales. 
Leaves chartaceo-coriaceous, usually clustered at the ends of the 
branchlets; lanceolate, long acuminate at apex, long cuneate at 
base; olive-brown and shining on the upper surface, pale brown 
on the lower, glabrous; 12—23 cm. long, 2—4 cm. broad; midrib 
slender, raised on both surfaces; main nerves 10 to 15 pairs, curving 
upwards to and along the margin, the upper ones joining in loops; 
transverse nervules and reticulation irregularly netted, prominent 
on the lower surface; petiole slender, 1—3 em. long. Flowers in 
slender axillary glabrous subcorymbose panicles ; peduncles slender, 
in flower about 5 cm. long, much longer in fruit; branches few, 
spreading, ending in dichasia; bracts linear, 5 mm. long, grey- 
puberulous; pedicels slender, clavate; buds obovoid, glabrous; 
flower pale yellow. Perianth-tube short; lobes ovate, subequal, 
3 mm. long, villous within. Stamens of 1st and 2nd rows 15 mm. 
long, anthers oblong, obtuse, filaments and connective villous. 
