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long, 3—6 cm. broad; midrib slender, raised beneath ; main nerves 
6—-8 pairs, irregular, raised on the upper surface, soon branching 
and irregularly anastomosing; reticulation irregular, prominent ; 
petiole slender, 1—2 cm. long, the upper part bordered by the 
decurrent margins of the blade. lowers yellowish-green, in pairs in 
axillary or terminal racemes 5—10 cm. long, densely dark rusty- 
villous; pedicels 1—2 mm. long, 2-flowered, branches 1—1°5 mm. 
long; bract acuminate, 1—2 mm. long, at the bases of the pedicels, 
bracteoles on the branches 1 mm.; perianth slender, 4—6 mm. 
long, clavate in bud; hypogynous scales 4, free, ovoid, glabrous, 
‘5 mm. long. Stamens 4; anthers 1—2 mm. long, the connective 
rugose, produced in a short apiculus. Ovary ovoid, ferruginous- 
villous; style slender, as long as perianth; stigma clavate. Fruit 
ovoid, oblique, smooth, 10 mm. long, 7—8 mm. in diam.; pedicel 
slightly thickened, 3 mm. in diam. Benn. in Horsf. Pl. Jav. Rar. 84 ; 
Meissn. in DC. Prodr. XIV. 441; Kurz For. Fl. II. 312; Miq. Fl. 
Ind. Bat. I. i. 987; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind V.191. Rhopala excelsa, 
Roxb. Fl. Ind. I. 363 and ed. Carey & Wall. I. 365; Spr. Syst. Veg. 
I. 482. 11; Roem. & Sch. Syst. Veg. Mant. III. 285; Wight Ic. t. 190 
(copied from Roxb.). 
PERAK: on tops of low hills in open jungle near Goping and 
Ulu Bubong, 90—250 m. alt., King’s Collector 5928 !, 6100!, 10836! ; 
near Gunong Bubu, Scortechint 774!. Matacca: at Sungei Hudang, 
etc. Goodenough 1388! 1760!; Derry 456!, 530!. SrineaporE: at 
Chenchukang, Goodenough 2759!; at Kranji, Ridley 6428! .—DistTRIB. 
India (Chittagong), Burma (Tenagsserim). 
Var. salicifotia. Innovations nearly glabrous. Leaves narrower, 
less abruptly and obtusely acuminate at apex, entire. Racemes 
longer, 10—13 cm. long, the rhachis and perianth nearly glabrous, 
the bract and bracteoles longer; the hypogynous scales 1 mm. long, 
oblong. Fruit larger, nearly 2 cm. long, 10—12 mm. broad, blue- 
black when ripe. H. salicifolia, Presl. Epimel. Bot. 247 (1849) ; 
Meissn. in DC. Prodr. XIV. 439 ; Kurz For. Fl. II. 312. H. excelsa 
var. edentula Benn. in Horsf. Pl. Jav. Rar. 84. 
PERAK : in dense jungie on low ground, Goping, King’s Collector 
691 !, 6096!; at Simpang, Wray 2310!; at Gunong Haram Parah, 
Scortechint 687!. Matacca: Maingay K. D. 1310!; at Sungei 
Hudang, Derry 1202!.—Distris. Burma (Tenasserim, Helfer 4366!) 
var. Forbesit. Similar to the last, but the /eaves much larger, 
12—22 em. long, 4—8 cm. broad; main nerves up to 10 pairs. 
