486 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
nodes 1—3 cm. long. Lamine coriaceous, with acute or subacute 
or rounded apex, subacute or obtuse or subtruncate or subcordate 
base and entire or undulate margin, 2°5—12 cm. long, 1:5—9 cm. 
broad, dark brown on upper, paler brown on lower surface, sparsely 
fulvous-tomentose on upper surface and + —so on lower; midrib and 
nerves indented on upper surface, both nerves and nervules prominent 
on the lower ; nerves 8—12; petiole terete, fulvous-tomentose, 8 mm. 
long; stipules broadly lanceolate, acuminate, fulvous-tomentose, 
5—6 mm. long, 3—4 mm. broad. Flowers clustered in the axils or 
on long leafless but stipulate spikes or panicles; the clusters a few 
mms. in diam., with 8—12 buds in a cluster,+ —suffulted by nu- 
merous small membranous broadly-lanceolate fulvous-tomentose 
bracteoles; usually only 1 or 2 buds in a cluster fully developing and 
usually only ¢ or only @ flowersin a cluster. ¢ Flowers shortly 
pedicelled, broadly ovoid acute in bud, 4 mm. long, exclusive 
of pedicel, and 5 mm. across; calyx divided about half way down, 
the lobes triangular or broadly lanceolate acute, greenish-yellow, 
shortly puberulous at the apex or glabrescent; petals shortly broad- 
ly clawed, broadly cuneate or obovate, with subtruncate or sub- 
acute subcrenulate apex, 2 mm. broad and rather Jess long; disk 
thick, sublobulate, projecting slightly beyond the base of the sepals ; 
stamens scarcely equalling the sepals, glabrous; anthers oblong- 
ovate, less than 1 mm. long; pistillode filiform below and within 
the staminal tube, free above and ending in a narrowly ovoid 
glabrous apex. 2 flowers resembling the ¢, but subsessile and 
with petals scarcely clawed and mesially longitudinally sulcate 
on inner surface with a basal swelling on each side of the sulcus; 
annulus of the disk narrow, laciniate, with a ring of bristles immedi- 
ately below it: ovary ovoid, glabrous, 1-5 mm. long, 1 mm. thick; 
styles 15 mm. long, flattened, glabrous, + —bifid; stigmas irregu- 
larly clavate, subtuberculate. Fruit oblong-ovoid, 1—1-2 cm. long, 
8—9 mm. thick, glabrous, smooth, bluish-black ; pyrenes subpyri- 
form scaphoid, with flat or slightly concave centrally excavate ven- 
tral surface, convex and superiorly keeled dorsal surface, obtuse 
base and acute carinate apex, 9 mm. long, 6 mm. broad and 3°5 mm. 
thick, obscurely longitudinally ridged on basal half of dorsal surface. 
Mull. Arg. 494 in part; Hook. f. 270, in part; Gehrmann in Bot. 
Jahrbuch, XLI, Beibl. No. 95, 29; J. J. Smith, 315; Jabl. Pflanz- 
enreich, IV, 147; VIII, 55.—B. retusa A. Juss. Tent. Kuphorb. 27, t. 
7.£.22.—B. Zollingeri Miq. FI]. Ind. Bat. I, ii, 364.—Cluytia stipularis 
L. Mant. 127. 
