158 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
at the base; those of the inner rows shorter and biglandular, the 
glands rather small; rudimentary ovary rounded, villous; style 
slender; stigma oblique. Staminodes of 2 flowers not known. Fruit 
cylindric-oblong, 2 cm. long, 7—9 mm. broad, obtuse at apex, 
seated on the cup-shaped rugose puberulous enlarged perianth-tube 
5 mm. high, 7 mm. broad at the mouth; pedicel thick, flattened, 
5 mm. long ; pericarp red when ripe, rugose when dry; cotyledons 
oblong, base acute. 
PENANG: at Batu Etam, 500 m., Curtis 787!. Province WEL- 
LESLEY : at Nibong Tibal, Curtis 3473!; at Krian, Ridley 9388!. 
PERAK: in dense jungle on low ground up to 30 m. alt., King’s 
Collector 5500!, 5568 !, 6207!, 6673!; at Bruas, Burn-Mardoch 211 
—Distris. Java, Borneo (base of Matang, Ridley 11673!; near 
Kuching, Haviland 3297 !). 
24, Lrrsza WRaAyI, Gamble in Kew Bull. 319 (1910). An ever- 
green tree reaching 20—25 m. in height and up to 60 cm. in 
diameter of stem; branchlets slender, greyish-brown, uppermost 
darker, angled, slightly puberulous ; leaf-buds lanceolate, grey-puber- 
ulous. Leaves chartaceous, alternate-elliptic; oblong, or oblong- 
lanceolate or -oblanceolate, acuminate at apex, long attenuate at 
base or more rarely acute ; upper surface smooth, shining, glabrous, 
dark-brown, lower paler and reddish, glabrous or the youngest 
very slightly puberulous; margins slightly recurved, thickened ; 
10—17 cm. long, 3—5 cm. broad; midrib slender, slightly im- 
pressed above, raised beneath; main nerves 10—13 pairs, hardly 
impressed above, leaving the midrib at about 60° and curving at once 
obliquely upwards to and along the margin, the upper ones join- 
ing in loops; transverse nervules slender, irregular, often branched, 
enclosing the areolate reticulation; petiole slender, 15—25 mm. 
long, the upper half bordered by the decurrent margins of the blade. 
Flowers (buds only) in umbellules on slender villous or sub-glabrous 
peduncles 4—6 mm. long, single or fascicled or in very short (5 mm.) 
puberulous racemes, axillary or lateral on the upper branchlets ; 
raceme bracts ovate, grey-puberulous, caducous; involucral bracts 
4—5, villous without, glabrous within, the fifth when present 
obovate, the rest orbicular concave; flowers in each umbellule 
5—6; perianth-lobes 6, villous without, oblong, obtuse or acute 
usually alternately. Stamens in ¢ flowers 12, glabrous, those of 
the outer rows with acute anthers, those of the inner rows obtuse 
and with a pair of sessile glands halfway up the filaments; rudi- 
