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the upper by wide loops; transverse nervules many, prominent; 
reticulation irregularly areolate; petiole stout, very tomentose, 
15—3 em. long. Flowers rather large, greenish yellow, 1 cm. broad 
when open, closed after flowering, in long-peduncled densely ferru- 
ginous-tomentose panicles from the upper leaf-axils, reaching 25 cm. 
or longer and about 8 cm. in breadth; peduncles two-thirds of the 
length, tomentose even in fruit; branchestspreading, corymbose, 
dichotomous, ending in 3-flowered dichasia; bracts and bracteoles 
lanceolate, caducous ; pedicels short, clavate; buds globose. Peri- 
anth-tube short; lobes elliptic acute, the outer three slightly shorter 
than the inner which are 6—7 mm. long. Stamens large, the fila- 
ments and stalks of the glands and staminodes villous; those of Ist 
and 2nd rows 3 mm. long with elliptic emarginate anthers, those of 3rd 
row similar, but longer and oblong and narrow and with large stipi- 
tate glabrous reniform glands 1°5 mm. long; staminodes of 4th row 
cordate, acuminate, glabrous, with stalk 3 mm. long. Ovary globose, 
glabrous; style slender; stigma small, peltate when young. Fruit 
an ovoid-oblong berry 20 mm. long, 10 mm. in diameter, truncate 
at apex, seated on the enlarged puberulous perianth-lobes, nearly 
10 mm. long; pericarp brown, shining, rather thin. Mig. Fl. Ind. 
Bat. I. i. 908; Meissn. in DC. Prodr. XI. i. 38; Koord. & Val. 
Bijdr. X. 88. P. elliptica, Blume l.c. Persea macrophylla, Blume 
Bijdr. 568 in part. Machilus? macrophylla, Nees Syst. Laur. 674 
tn part. 
PERAK: at Waterloo, Curtis 2727!; Scortechini 1779!; hill 
forests about Larut up to 450 m. alt., King’s Collector 3918!, 5607!, 
5663!. Singapore: at Bukit Mandai, Ridley 4581!, garden jungle, 
Ridley 3579!, 3891!, 13317!. 
4, PH@se KuNSsTLERI, Gamble in Kew Bull. 226 (1910). A 
large tree reaching 25 to 30 m. in height and 60 to 90 cm. in diameter 
of stem; branchlets stout, rugose, with prominent scars and oblong 
corky lenticels, uppermost tawny-puberulous; leaf-buds short, ovoid, 
tawny-pubescent. Leaves coriaceous; obovate or elliptic-obovate, 
obtuse or obtusely short apiculate at apex, attenuately narrowed at 
base for the lower half; upper surface shining, glabrous, lower 
glaucescent, minutely puberulous; margins slightly recurved ; 
12—24 cm. long, 6—11 cm. broad; midrib rather stout,impressed on 
the upper, raised on the lower surface; main nerves 8 to 12 pairs, 
impressed above, prominently raised beneath, curved to the margin 
where they meet in loops, joined by rather prominent distant trans- 
