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in bracteate axillary or lateral clusters, the bracts deciduous leaving 
a thick very short peduncle: 3 flowers on pedicels 2—3 mm. long; 
perianth-tube short, villous; perianth-lobes ovate, ciliate, pubescent 
without, glabrous within, 2°5 mm. long. Stamens 9, those of the Ist 
and 2nd rows shortly oblong on short villous filaments, those of the 
3rd row rather shorter and with each a pair of large reniform glands; 
rudimentary ovary ovoid, with short style; staminodes of 92 flowers 
not known, nor fruit. 
SINGAPORE: in Botanic Garden (wild ?) Hullett 659!—also sheet 
in Herb. Kew with number 38=2 ‘from botanic garden’ ! 
10. ACTINODAPHNE OLEIFOLIA, Gamble in Kew Bull. 313 (1910), 
A shrub or small tree, scarcely 2—3 m. high; branchlets slender. 
terete, pale greyish-brown, uppermost densely and softly ferrugin- 
ous-villous as are the leai-buds and inflorescence. Leaves coriaceous, 
in whorls of 4—8; elliptic-oblong or -lanceolate, very obtusely atten- 
uate at apex, shortly attenuate at base; upper surface shining or 
rather dull, prominently areolately pitted, lower surface paler or 
glaucous, both surfaces glabrous; 5—11 cm. long, 2—3 cm. broad ; 
midrib stout, prominent, reddish; main nerves 8—10 or more, pro- 
minent and raised above, at about 70° with the midrib, curved 
upwards to anastomose near the margin; secondary nerves many ; 
transverse nervules arched, reticulation areolately netted; petiole 
red, slender, 1—2 cm. long, slightly twisted. Flowers in dense 
tawny-villous cymose clusters of umbellules in the axils of the 
verticils or on the internodes between them, supported by orbicular 
concave deciduous bracts; umbellules usually of 5 dowers, the 
centre one the longest, surrounded by 5—6 concave imbricate 
involucral bracts; in 3 flowers umbels 1 to about 3, in 2 flowers 
apparently only 1; perianth-lobes ovate, densely villous without, 
glabrous within, 2—3-nerved, the inner 3 slightly the smaller and 
narrower, 2—3 mm. long. Stamens of 3 flowers in 3 rows, the 
inner row with 2 large reniform sessile glands, filaments villous with 
golden-tawny hairs; staminodes of 2 flowers also in 3 rows, the 
outer 2 rows spathulate, the inner hastate with 2 large glabrous 
glands. Ovary in 3 flower without ovules; style slender; stigma 
capitate, lobed. Fruit ovoid-oblong, 7—12 mm. long, 4—7 mm. 
broad, the base supported by the cup-shaped enlarged perianth-tube 
which is surmounted by the persistent perianth-lobes and 5—7 mm. 
broad at top; pedicels thickened, 5 mm. long, tawny-villous; peri- 
carp smooth, surmounted by the persistent style. 
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