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long; buds globose, about 5mm. in diam. Perianth thick, densely 
villous with stiff hairs within; lobes 5, unequal; scales subulate, 
often bifid, black when dry, 2—3 mm. long, about 15 to 20 in 
number in a ring a little above the bases of the lobes. Stamens 
about as many as the scales and within them; filaments very 
slender, short; anthers 1 mm. long, oblong. Ovary densely villous 
without, usually 4-celled in a cross; style very long, twisted; ovules 
flattened. Capsule large, globose, obovoid or ellipsoid-oblong, 4—6 
em. long, 2°5 to 4 cm. in diam.; pericarp very thick and woody, the 
2—4 valves of transverse woody fibres, the surface rough, pitted. 
Seeds 1—4, usually 1 or 2, globose or oblong; testa crustaceous ; 
cotyledons very fleshy, 2—3 cm. in diam. Gilg in Engl. & Prantl 
Naturl. Pflenzenfam. Nachtr. 232; Ridl. in Journ. R. As. Soc. Straits 
Br. xxxv. 89 (1901). 
Penane: Government Hill, Curtzs 1509!, 3036!; at Balik Pulau, 
Ridley 9399!. Prrak: at Tapa, Wray 1252!; at Goping, Scortechini 
1957!; near Larut, King’s Collector 3703!. 3778!, 6925!, 74781, 
7592!,7752!. Manacca: Maingay K.D.1441!. Srycarore: Garden 
jungle, Ridley 6186!; Bukit Mandai, Ridley 6719!; at Chua Chu 
Kang, Ridley 6719a!. 
The great mass of available material shows considerable variation, to 
some extent in the leaves, but especially in the size of the fruit. But I have 
tried in vain to arrange it in varieties and must come to the same conclusion 
as Ridley did. In his ‘ Notes on the Flora of Singapore’ in the Journal of the 
Straits Br. R. As. Soc. he has pointed out that ‘ the fruit in Herbarium speci- 
mens often splits before itis ripe.’ He clearly considers that the Peninsular 
material, of which the Singapore Herbarium has a great series of specimens, 
all belongs to one species, and I have thought it right to follow him and des- 
eribe it accordingly. The typeis Maingay’s 1441, the leaves of which are more 
reddish-brown and slightly more pubescent beneath than most of the other 
material, but I can find no other difference. 
Family CVI. ELATAGNACEAL. 
Trees or shrubs with copious silvery or brown scales. Leaves 
alternate or opposite, quite entire, exstipulate. Flowers small, 
regular, hermaphrodite or dioecious, in axillary fascicles, spikes or 
racemes; bracts small, deciduous. Perianth in hermaphrodite or 2 
flowers tubular, constricted above the ovary, persistent below, decidu- 
ous above, limb 2—4-lobed; in i sometimes of 2 membranous lobes. 
Stamens in hermaphrodite flowers adnate to the throat of the perianth- 
tube, as many as the lobes and alternate with them, in ¢ flowers 
