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margin, impressed above and pubescent, strongly raised, beneath ; 
transverse nervules very prominent, subparallel, much raised be- 
neath, slightly depressed above, joined by a prominent reticulation ; 
petiole very stout, rusty-tomentose, 2 to 4 em. long. Flowers in 
dense clusters about 2 cm. in diam. on the internodes between the 
upper verticils and supported by orbicular concave bracts glabrous 
within ; clusters bearing many stoutly-peduncled involucres each of 
4 orbicular concave bracts enclosing an umbellule of 5 flowers, 
the centre one longer peduncled than the 4 outer; 3 and 2 flowers 
similar with 6 subequal ovate concave perianth-lobes, tomentose 
without, glabrous within, 5—7 nerved, prominently gland-dotted, 
at length recurved, 4—5 mm. long. Stamens of 3 flowers in 3 rows, 
the inner row with a pair of large rugose glabrous glands a little 
above the base of the filaments; anthers elliptic-oblong, 2 mm. long, 
glabrous; filaments rather longer with a tuft of tawny-brown hairs 
at their bases. Stamens of 2 flowers reduced to lanceolate glabrous 
staminodes. Ovary, style and stigma of @ flowers not seen, in 
3 flowers0. Fruit globose, bright yellow when ripe, smooth, 10—13 
mm. in diam., seated on the flat, enlarged, 6-lobed perianth 10 mm. 
in diameter and villous beneath, the lobes reflexed; pericarp thick, 
fleshy ; pedicels little enlarged, 3 mm. long, villous. 
PERAK: at lower camp, Gunong Batu Pateh, at 1000 m. alt. 
Wray 915!, at Tapah Wray 1333!; at Goping on low ground up to 150 
m., King’s Collector 6172!. Matacca: Maingay K.D. 1258!, 1275!. 
SINGAPORE: at Pulau Ubin, Ardley 9489!, at Bukit Timah Ridley! 
Kunstler says: ‘‘ this is a very fine-looking tree ’’ and indeed it must be. 
Var. macrocarpa, Gamble. Leaves only slightly pubescent be- 
neatb and more glaucous; fruit depressed-globose 2—2°5 cm. in 
diameter. 
PERAK: at lower camp, Gunong Batu Pateh, 1000 m. alt. 
Wray 1230! (a bush); in dense jungle on high mountains, Larut, 
900—1200 m., King’s Collector 6435! (a small tree 20 to 25 ft. high). 
Panane: at Telan, Ridley 13783!—Distris. Borneo, at Matang, 
Ridley 11675! % 
Var. elliptica, Gamble. Leaves elliptic, acuminate at apex, 
rounded attenuate at base, glaucous and pubescent beneath, 20—25 
em. long, 10—12 cm. broad; young fruit in pedunculate cymes about 
3 cm. long. 
PERAK: at lower camp, Gunong Batu Pateh, Wray 1226}. 
