490 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
ovate, with abruptly acuminate apex, rounded or obtuse base and 
entire slightly revolute margin, 95—18 cm. long, 4—8 cm. broad ; 
upper surface dark brown, glabrous, subnitid ; lower clearer brown, 
rusty pubescent on the prominent midrib and nerves ; nerves 9—13 ; 
petiole slender, glabrous or sparsely pubescent, subterete, 8 mm. 
long; stipules triangular-lanceolate, 3 mm. long, rusty pubescent. 
Flower-clusters -5—1 cm. in diam., with numerous flowers, ¢@ only 
or 2 only or mixed, suffulted by numerous broadly ovate, scarious, 
rusty-pubescent bracteoles. 3 flowersin bud globosely-ovoid, 1:5 
mm. long, subsessile, glabrous; calyx divided more than halfway 
down into triangular lanceolate sepals; petals attached just below 
outer margin of disk, less than ‘5 mm. long, sessile, obovate, entire or 
emarginate ; disk circular-pulvinate ; staminal column short, glab- 
rous; anthers less than:5 mm. long; pistillode the size of an anther, 
smooth, glabrous. ? flowers larger than the 3, ovoid, subsessile, 
3 mm. long; calyx as in the 3, but with sepals puberulous at their 
apex; petals as in the ¢ but narrower; disk fleshy, with entire 
annulus; ovary ovoid, glabrous, scarcely 1 mm. long; styles 2 mm. 
long, united for more than half their length, sometimes one of them 
trifid; stigmas irregularly thickened. Fruit ovoid, 7 mm, in diam., 
glabrous, smooth, with one pyrene. Gehrm. in Bot. Jahrbuch. XLI, 
Beibl. No. 95, 38; Jabl. in Pflanzenreich l.c. 75. 
Perak: Goping K.C. 508!. Szttancor: Kwala Lampur, no 
collector's name!. Matacca: Maingay 1371!. Jonor: Jaftaria, 
King!; Castlewood, R. 9167!. Sincarore: no collector’s name, 
2923!; Sungei Jurong, R. 3874!; Thompson Road, Hullett 5829! ; 
Rogie, f. 10740! 
5. BRIDELIA CINNAMOMEA, Hook. f. 273. A thorny subscan- 
dent shrub, with short rigid brachiate branchlets, moderately sized 
leaves and comparatively few-flowered clusters, axillary and spicate 
along the terminal twigs. Branches terete, 5—8 mm. thick, glabrous, 
pale brown, with small scattered prickles; twigs subterete, 10—20 
em. long, 2 mm. thick, pustulately lenticellate, pale brown and 
glabrous on the older parts, dark brown to almost black on the 
younger parts, sparsely rusty-pubescent or glabrescent ; internodes 
1—1°5 cm. long on the terminal flowering twigs, 2—3 cm. on the 
branches. Lamine thinly coriaceous, ovate, with acute or shortly 
acuminate apex, rounded base and entire margin, 3°5—8 cm. long, 
2—5'5 cm. broad ; upper surface dark-olivaceous, sparsely pubes- 
cent on midrib and nerves, subnitid ; lower surface sparsely cinna- 
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