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-oblanceolate or -obovate, rounded or acute or acuminate some- 
times even cuspidate at apex, cuneate or attenuate at base; 
upper surface dull, olive-green, glabrous, lower glaucous or bluish- 
green, rarely reddish, also glabrous; 8—24 cm. long, 5—10 cm. 
broad; midrib pale, slender, impressed above, prominent beneath ; 
main nerves 9 to 12, pale, curving upwards to join in loops 
near the margin; transverse nervules few but nearly straight 
and prominent, shining, conspicuous on the under surface, the 
smaller reticulations very evident on the upper surface when dry ; 
petiole 5—20 mm. long, bordered above by the decurrent margins of 
the blade. lowers in sessile or very shortly peduncled umbellules in 
very short few- (1—3-) flowered long-bracteate racemes axillary or 
lateral; bracts subulate, 3—5 mm. long; umbellules with 6 ovate- 
orbicular concave involucral bracts, the inner 3 smaller than the 3 
outer, densely tomentose without, glabrous within, 5—7 mm. long, 
3s and @ nearly equal in size; flowers in each umbellule usually 6; 
perianth-tube short (1—1°5 mm.) in’, longer (3 mm.) in 2 ; lobes 6, 
ovate, acute in 3, oblong in 2°, ciliate, l-nerved, 3 mm. long, 
glabrous or nearly so within. Stamensin 3 flowers 9—12 in 4 rows, 
most (usually 6) of outer rows eglandular with 6 of inner rows shorter 
and biglandular, but often 3 only in inner row biglandular; outer 
rows 4 mm. long with small ovate acute anthers and very slender 
glabrous filaments, inner 2°5 mm. long with smaller anthers and 
shorter filaments and a pair of large sessile or shortly stipitate 
glands at their bases; rudimentary ovary ovate, very small with 
thick often bent style and peltate stigma. Staminodes of 2 flowers 
as the stamens of the 3 the outer ones clavate on capillary stalks 
3 mm. long, the inner similar but 1—5 mm. long and with a 
pair of oblong glands at the base. Ovary ovoid with thick fleshy 
geniculate style and peltate slightly lobed stigma. Fruit ovoid, 
apiculate, 12—15 mm. long, 8—10 mm. broad, seated on the 
enlarged persistent but thin chartaceous perianth-tube which is 
12 mm. in diam. bearing the persistent perianth lobes and often cleft 
in 2—5 segments ; pericarp thin, glabrous; cotyledons semi-ovoid, 
fleshy. 
PERAK: at Relan Tujor, Sungie Larut and Maxwell’s hill, Wray 
2198!, 2286!, 2755!; at Maxwell’s hill, Scortechint 1410!; among 
rocks, in dense forest and up to 1000 m. alt., King’s Collector 3493}, 
4971!, 5130!, 5280!; Maxwell’s hill, Ridley! SrLancor: at Kwala 
Lumpur, Curtis 2371! 
