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or sometimes more or less rounded at base ; upper surface dull, glab- 
rous, lower glaucous or cinereous, rusty-tomentose when young ; 
7—20 cm. long, 2—6 cm. broad ; midrib slender, tomentose beneath, 
slightly channelled above; main nerves 8 to 12 pairs, curving rather 
obliquely upwards to and along the margin; transverse nervules 
faint andirregular as is the reticulation; petiole tomentose, short, 
3—7 mm. long. Flowers yellowish, in peduncled (up to 5 mm.) 
umbellules in short axillary or lateral bracteate rusty-pubescent 
racemes of about 5 together; umbellules about 6 mm. broad with 
4 orbicular concave involucral bracts 2—3 mm. in diam., spreading 
in flower; flowers in each umbellule 3, very small and very shortly 
pedicelled ; perianth-tube very short both in # and 9? and densely 
long-villous within at mouth, lobes 6, ovate-oblong, acute, 3 mm. 
long, those of 2? smaller. Stamens of 3 flowers 9, those of the outer 
2 rows eglandular with small quadrate anthers and slender villous 
filaments 3 mm. long; those of 3 inner shorter (2 mm.) and with a 
pair of large rounded sessile glands at the base; rudimentary ovary 
ovoid with short style and 2-lobed stigma. Staminodes of 2 flowers 
also 9, those of 2 outer rows spathulate 1 mm. long, those of the 
inner row short conical with 2 large rounded sessile glands and tufts 
of long hairs. Ovary ovoid, glabrous; style rather thick, bent ; 
stigma iarge, peltate, lobed, all together 2—3 mm. long. Fruit 
ellipsoid, apiculate, 10 mm. long, 5 mm. in diam., seated on the 
slightly enlarged (4 mm. in diam., 2 mm. high) but not hardened 
perianth-tube which is more or less crowned with the remains of 
the perianth-lobes and staminodes; pericarp smooth; pedicels 
thickened and elongated to 3—4 mm. Prain Beng. Plants 902. 
Tetranthera lancifolia, Roxb. ex Wall. Cat. 2532; Nees in Wall. Pl. 
As. Rar. II. 65 and Syst. Laur. 509; Meissn. in DC. Prodr. XV. 1. 
194; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I. 944; Kurz For. Fl. II. 300. T. chrysantha 
and 7’. pusilla, Bl. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. I. 376. 7. attenuata, Wall. 
Cat. 2534 in part. . 
PERAK: at Relan Tujor, Tapu and other places, Wray 996!, 
1306!, 2610!, 2895!, 3438!; King’s Collector 2963!, 3233!, 3254!, 
3351!, 6609!, 10526!, 10533!. SELaNcor: at Kwala Lumpur, 
Curtis 2401!. JoHORE: at Jafiaria, G. King /. StnGApPore: at Selitar, 
Ridley 6454!; at Bukit Payang, Ridley 12563!.—Distris. India 
(E. Himalaya, Assam, Khasia Hills and Sylhet), Burma, Sumatra, 
Borneo. 
Var. rufa, Gamble. Leaves smaller, narrower, more tomentose; 
fruit nearly globose. 
