188 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
or elliptic-oblong, obtuse or obtusely acute at apex, cuneate or at- 
tenuate to almost rounded at base; upper surface shining, yellowish 
green, glabrous except on the midrib, minutely reticulate, lower surface 
densely light rusty-tomentose ; margins recurved; 10—30 cm. long, 
3—9 cm. broad ; midrib flat or slightly impressed above, prominent 
beneath; main nerves 8—15 pairs, regular and regularly curved 
upwards to and along the margin, the uppermost joining in loops, 
faint and slightly impressed on the upper surface, densely tomentose 
and very prominent on the lower; transverse nervules arched ; re- 
ticulation minutely areolate; petiole stout, 1—2°5 cm. long. Flowers 
yellowish or white, densely dark-tawny tomentose without, in 
peduncled (1—2 cm.) umbellules in short stout axillary or lateral 
racemes of about 5 and about 1 cm. long; umbellules 8—10 mm. in 
diam. (3), 7 mm. broad (@), with 4 orbicular or ovate concave in- 
volucral bracts, 5 mm. in diam. glabrous within ; flowers in each 
umbellule 6—S, usually 7, very shortly pedicelled; perianth-tube 
funnel-shaped, 1:5 to 2 mm. long, lobes oblong ciliate, nearly 
glabrous within, 1—3-nerved, 4 mm. long in 3, 2 mm.in 92, 1-5 
mm. or ‘5 mm. broad. Stamens in ¢ flowers 12, in 4 rows; those 
of the outer two rows with short quadrate anthers 15 mm. long, 
the filaments 4—5 mm. long, villous; those of the inner rows shorter, 
the anthers 1 mm. long, the filaments 2 mm. long, furnished above 
the base with a pair of large oblong truncate sessile glands; upper 
anther cells all irtrorse, lower all lateral; rudimentary ovary ovoid 
with thick straight style 2 mm. long and a bilobed papillose stigma. 
Staminodes of 2 flowers 12,in 4 rows; those of the outer 2 rows 
spathulate, 15mm. long; those of the inner two rows club-shaped, 
1 mm. long, with a pair of large sessile glands attached above the 
base. Ovary ovoid ; style very thick and fleshy, 3 mm. long; stigma. 
peltate, 3—4lobed and crenulate, the margins reflexed. Fruit 
ovoid, 2—2°5 cm. long and 13 mm. in diam., apiculate, half immersed 
in the hemispheric cup-shaped enlarged perianth-tube which is 
about 17 mm. high and as much in the diam. of the truncate sharply- 
edged mouth, prominently warted and very shortly pedicelled ; 
pericarp smooth, wrinkled when dry. JL. Blumit, Hook. f. in Fl. Br. 
Ind. V. 160, non Nees. 
Perak: at Changkat Jerin, Wray 2757!; at Ulu Bubong and 
near Larut at 90—180 m. alt., King’s Collector 5865 !, 8573!, 10167!. 
SeLancor: in Weld’s Hill Reserve, A. Burn-Murdoch 282 (Ridley 
14284)!, Matacca: Griffith K.D. 4285!; Maingay K.D. 1252!. 
