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diam. of stem; branchlets dark brown to black, smooth, uppermost 
and lanceolate leaf-buds ferruginous-silky. Leaves subcoriaceous, 
alternate, glabrous or slightly puberulous, especially on the nerves, 
beneath; broadly ovate or elliptic-ovate, acuminate and often 
cuspidate at apex, rounded or sometimes acute at base; upper 
surface shining, olive-green when dry, lower dark reddish-brown; 
7—17 cm. long, 4—9 cm. broad; midrib slender, raised on both 
surfaces; main nerves 5--7 pairs, slightly impressed above, the 
lowest 1—2 pairs from near the base, the rest more distant, all 
curving gradually and joining in loops a little distance from the 
margin; transverse nervules distant, irregular, the reticulation 
obscure; petiole slender, 1—2 cm. long, channelled above and near 
the top bordered by the decurrent margins of the blade. Flowers 
in pedunculate sparsely villous umbellules clustered in stout racemes 
in the axils of the leaves; racemes 1—6 mm. long; peduncles slender 
8—15 mm. long, 2 somewhat shorter than 3 ; involucral bracts 4, 
the outer pair hemispheric, early deciduous; flowers in each umbel- 
lule 9 or more; pedicels slender, 1—%3 mm. long; perianth-lobes 6, 
in 3 obovate lobed, in ? oblong or spathulate, gland-dotted, 1—1-5 
mm. long. Stamens of 3 flowers 9, very small; those of Ist and 
2nd rows glandular with glabrous filaments ; those of 3rd row bearing 
a pair of rather large glands a little above the bases of the filaments ; 
rudimentary ovary 0 or very smail, conoidal. Staminodes of 9 
flowers also 9; those of rows I and II linear clavate; those of row 
III clavate with large glands asin 3. Ovary ovoid, glabrous; style 
thick, curved; stigma peltate, lobed. Fruit a globose or ovoid 
drupe 6—20 mm. long, 6—15 mm. in diameter; pericarp smooth ; 
fruiting pedicels thickened, 3—10 mm. long, surmounted by the 
scarcely enlarged perianth ; fruiting peduncle also thickened, 15—20 
mm. long. 
Perak: at Relan Tujor, Wray 3133!; WScoriechini!; about 
Goping and Larut, King’s Collector 873!, 963!, 2533!, 5139!, 5167!, 
5578 !,5679!,8839!. Matacca: Griffith4297!; Maingay K.D. 1257!, 
1272!; at Sungei Udang, Holmberg 778!. JoHoRE: at Batu Pahat, 
Ridley 11030!.  Sinearore: at Bukit Timah, Choa Chu Kang and 
Turong, Ridley 3459!, 5998!, 10776!. 
Scortechini’s specimens, as also Ridley 3373! from Selitar and 4704! from 
Dalvey road, Singapore, have thinner less acuminate and less shining leaves, 
fewer flowers in the clusters and lighter coloured branchlets, but otherwise 
seem to belong to this species, and are scarcely worthy of being classed as a 
variety. Griffith 4297 is the ¢ plant of a stiff reddish brown form with long- 
