Llora of the Malayan Peninsula. Sunil 
conspicuous. Perianih-lobes 6, subequal, with a raised ring at their 
base inside. Stamens 9 fertile with 4-celled anthers; those of the 
first and second rows short triangular with no or very short broad 
filaments. introrse; those of the 3rd row similar but with extrorse 
or marginal anther-cells, and with two minute glands at the base, 
sometimes absent; staminodes of the 4th row triangular, sessile; 
the staminal ring detachable. Ovary usually globose; style short ; 
stigma minute. rut a large globose berry ; fruiting perianth per- 
sistent, the lobes erect or somewhat reflexed; the pedicel enlarged, 
clavate.— Distrip. One species. 
STEMMATODAPHNE PERAKENSIS, Gamble in Kew Bull. 227 
(1910). A tree with spreading branches reaching 10 to 12 m. in 
height and 30 to 45 cm. in diam. of stem; branchlets moderately 
stout, with greyish white bark; leaf- buds lanceolate, tawny-pubescent. 
Leaves membranous; obovate, long acuminate at apex, cuneate, 
attenuate or sometimes a little rounded at base; both surfaces 
glabrous, the upper nearly black when dry, often bullate, the lower 
dark brown; 12—30 cm. long, 6—12 cm. broad; midrib stout, flat or 
slightly impressed above, much raised beneath; main nerves 10 to 
15 pairs, unequally distant, slightly impressed above, raised beneath, 
straight or slightly curved to near the margin, where the lower ones 
end in a series of small loops and the upper ones are joined by 
prominent large loops forming a continuous intramarginal nerve to 
the apex; transverse nervules parallel, slender, more or less im- 
pressed above, smaller reticulation not prominent; petiole variable in 
length, I—5 cm. long,channelled above, glabrous. Flowers small, in 
lax slightly puberulous panicles from the upper leaf-axils, reaching 
10—12 em. in length and black when dry ; peduncleslender, 3—7 cm. 
long; branches few, 1—1°5 cm. long, ending in 4—5-flowered umbels; 
pedicels conspicuous, red, clavate, minutely puberulous, 1O—15 mm. 
long; buds globose. Perianth-lobes subequal, rounded, 1—2 mm. - 
long, with a pubescent ring at their base within behind the stamens. 
Stamens triangular, with no or very short thick villous filaments, all 
‘5—7 mm. long, those of 3rd row with very minute or no basal 
glands; staminodes of 4th row triangular acute, ‘6 mm. long, villous 
at base. Ovary ovoid-globose; style very short, conical; stigma 
minute. Fruit a large obovoid globose berry reaching 6 cm. in 
length and 4—5 cm. in diameter, seated on the persistent more or . 
less reflexed perianth-lobes and the enlarged clavate warted pedicel 
2—3 cm. long and 5—7 mm. broad at top; pericarp smooth. 
