108 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
verse nervules and an irregularly netted reticulation; petiole 1°5 to 
4 cm. long, somewhat flattened above, puberulous. Flowers pale 
yellow, 10 mm. in diameter, in stout long-peduncled grey-tawny 
puberulous panicles from the axils of upper leaves, reaching about 
20 cm. in length; peduncles 10—12 em. long; branches 5 em. long 
or less, dichotomous, subcorymbose, ending in pairs of flowers or 
3-flowered dichasia; br4ets caducous, triangular; pedicels slender, 
5—6 mm. long ; buds oblong, 5—7 mm. long. Perianth-tube short ; 
lobes ovate acute, the outer 4 mm. long, the inner 5 mm., tomentose 
on both sides. Stamens slender, those of Ist and 2nd rows with ellip- 
tic anthers and long villous slender filaments 3 mm. long; those of the 
3rd row 3°5 mm. long, the anthers oblong, truncate at apex, the two 
glands large, reniform, glabrous, attached a little above the base; 
staminodes of 4th series cordate, glabrous, villous behind and as the 
rather slender stipes, 2mm. long. Ovary globose, minutely hirsute ; 
style slender; stigma obtuse, slightly spreading. Fruit an ovoid 
berry 15 mm. long, 10 mm. in diam., truncate at apex, seated on 
the slightly spreading persistent glabrous perianth-lobes; pericarp 
bluish-green when fresh, nearly black and wrinkled when dry. 
Perak : in forests on hills near Goping up to 240 m. alt., 
Kunstler (King’s Collector) 4491!, 6180!, 8173!; Scortechint 497!; 
at Blanda Mabok, Wray 3964!. Sunezr Usone : Herb. Singap. 
2325 (Vern. ‘ Poko Medang Kusirai’)!.  SrveaporE: at Pulau Ubri, 
Fidley 5915!.—Distrip. Borneo (Haviland!). 
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5. Puass opaca, Blume in Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. I. 327 (1851). 
A tree reaching 20—25 m. in height and 40—50 em. in diameter of 
stem; branches stout with whitish bark; branchlets thick, lenticel- 
late, uppermost minutely puberulous; leaf-buds conical, 6—7 mm. 
long, densely tawny-puberulous, with leafy scales. Leaves coriace- 
ous; obovate or oblanceolate or elliptic-obovate, shortly and obtusely 
acuminate at apex, cuneate or attenuate at base usually for some 
length ; upper surface glabrous, shining, lower dull glaucescent, 
minutely puberulous, finally glabrous; 10—27 cm. long, 5—8 cm. 
broad; midrib stout, impressed above, raised beneath ; main nerves 
8 to 15 pairs, prominent beneath and often dark, variable in 
obliqueness, but all curving to and along the margin, joined by 
rather obscure parallel transverse nervules and an inconspicuous 
reticulation; petiole black, terete, 15—25 mm. long. Flowers 4—6 
mm. broad when open, in spreading rusty-pubescent panicles from 
the axils of the uppermost leaves, appearing fascicled, reaching 
