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mon-tomentose; midrib and nerves slender, prominent on lower 
surface ; nerves 6—8; petiole slender, -subterete, 6 mm. long, cinna- 
mon-pubescent; stipules...., Flower-clusters 5 mm. in diam., 
with numerous deep-red flowers, ¢ only or 2 only, imbedded in a 
mass of minute, oblong-lanceolate, laciniately-margined scarious 
bracteoles. <3 flowers pseudo-pedicellate, in bud conical above the 
pseudo- pedicel, 3 mm. long including the 1 mm. long pedicel, 1°5 mm. 
in diam., sparsely cinnamon-pubescent on outer, glabrous on inner 
surface; sepals ovate-lanceolate, half the length of the calyx; petal 
scarcely 1 mm. long, narrowly obcuneate, with obtuse .base and 
usually a bristle on the lower surface ; disk saucer-shaped; stami- 
nal column short; pistillode columnar. 2 flowers sessile, ovate, 
3 mm. long, 5 mm. in diam. when open; sepals as in the 3 ; petals 
oblong or oblong-obovate, less than 1 mm. long, entire, bristly on 
the outer surface ; disk glabrous, annulus submembranous, irregular- | 
ly dentately margined ; ovary pyriform, glabrous ; style single short, 
stout, bifid, above; stigmas clavellate. Fruit ovoid, not seen 
mature, smooth. 
Gehrm. in Bot. Jahrbuch. XLI, Beibl. No. 95, 38, under B. 
Griffithit Hook. f.; Jabl. in Pflanzenreich, l.c. 74. 
Perak: Kinta. 60—100 m., K.C.7101!; other places in Perak, 
60—200 m. K.C. 7960!, 7989!, 8392!, 10612!; Assam Kumbang, 
W. 2121!; Thaiping, W. 2391!. Jonor: Kota Tinggi, R. 4157!. 
SINGAPORE : Seletar, R.! 
Distris. Malayan Archipelago. 
Type sheet is K.C. 7101 from Kinta in Kew Herbarium. Under B. 
cinnamomea, Hooker quotes Perak Scortechini as well as Kinta (misprinted 
Kinla in the Fl. Brit. Ind.), King’s Collector. In Kew Herbarium the sheets 
collected by Scortechini Nos. 1822 and 1823 are named by Hooker ‘“‘ B. cinna- 
momea,’ while the Kinta sheet. K.C. 7101 is named by him ‘ B. ? cinna- 
momea.” Scortechini’s sheets agree with each other and with Haviland’s No. 
800 from Borneo. They differ altogether from the Kinta sheet, K.C. 7101, 
which on the other hand agrees with Haviland’s Nos. 937 and 1858 from 
Borneo. Hooker’s description of B. cinnamomea is based on the mixture of 
sheets, but as his description of B. cinnamomea as “<a thorny shrubby creeper 
10—15 feet long”’ is taken from the Kinta specimen ticket, the Kinta specimens 
are taken as the type, all the more so as the Scortechini sheets Nos. 1822 and 
1823 named ‘‘ B. cinnamomea’’ by Hooker in the Kew Herbarium and Haviiand’s 
No. 800—the latter in fruit—are a species of Cleistanthus, being C. perakensis 
Jabl. B.cinnamomea may be merely, as Gehrmann considers it, a variety of 
B. Grifithit Hook. f. The twospecies are certainly very closely allied, both 
being scandent shrubs. 
