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both surfaces, prominent beneath; main nerves about 15—20 pairs, 
at from 70°—S0° with the midrib at first then arched to the margin ; 
transverse nervules subparallel, oblique; reticulation obscure ; petiole 
8—12 mm. long, tomentose. Panicles elongate, up to 25 cm. long, 
15 em. broad; bracts small, near the bases of the branches; floral 
leaves of two kinds, the smaller linear-oblong 6—12 mm. long, the 
larger on fruiting branches leaf-like, pale brown, oblong-obovate, 
obtuse at apex and base, prominently nerved and reticulate, deflexed, 
the upper surface usually lowest, 5—6 cm. long, about 2 cm. broad, 
the petiole thick on a thickened base ; heads termina!, subumbellate ; 
bracteoles minute; buds clavate; flowers greenish-brown. Perianth- 
tube tubular-ovoid, constricted above, densely rusty-tomentose with- 
out, glabrous within, 5—6 mm. long; lobes short, 2—3 mm. long, 
incurved, villous within: scales 5, minute, obtuse, bilobed or bifid, 
glabrous. Stamens very small, filaments short, anthers oblong. 
Ovary densely white hirsute; style very short; stigma capitate. 
Drupe ovoid, prominently ribbed and reticulate, 12—15 mm. long, 
1 cm. broad, beaked; pericarp woody; remains of perianth at base 
only; pedicel thickened. Seed subglobose, 6 mm. in diam.; testa 
softly membranous; cotyledons hemispheric: radicle rather large, 
acute. Walpers Ann. J. 588; Engl. & Prantl Naturl. Pflanzenfam. 
II]. 6A. 231. EF. malayana, Griff. Notul. IV. 363. Lasiosiphon 
scandens, Endl. Gen. Pl. Suppl IV. Part 2. 67 (1847); Meissn. in 
DC. Prodr. xiv. ii. 598. Linostoma scandens; Kurz in Journ. As. 
Soc. Beng. xxxix. ii. 83 (1875) and For. Fl. II. 334; Mig. Fl. Ind. 
Bat. I. 1. 881; Hook. f. in Fl. Br. Ind. V. 198. LZ. siamense, Kurz 
L.L.e. fide Hook f. 
Maracca: Griffith 4375; at Ayer Punas, Curtis 3493!; at Sungei 
Udang, Goodenough 1674!; Alwis!. Stneapore: Maingay 1308/2!; 
Schomburgk 101!; in experimental garden, Ridley 5565!, at Bukit 
Timah, Ridley 6427!.—Distrre. Burma and Siam (Kurz). 
5». AQUILARIA, Lamk. 
Trees. Leaves alternate, penni-nerved, glossy. Flowers herma- 
phrodite, pedicellate, in axillary or terminal peduncled umbellules, 
ebracteate. Perianth tube campanulate; lobes 5, spreading or re- 
flexed ; scales 10 on the throat of the perianth, densely pilose, con- 
nate below in a short ring. Stamens 10, alternate with the scales 
and below them; filaments short; anthers oblong, introrse, the cells 
often unequal. Ovary sessile, densely villous, 2-celled; style very 
