Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 493 
ceous, broadly or narrowly ovate or obovate or broadly lanceolate oF 
oblanceolate, with shortly, sometimes abruptly, acuminate apex and 
rounded to cuneate base, 4—14 cm. long, 3-—7'5 cm. broad ; upper 
surface brown to dark-olivaceous or almost black, glabrous, nitid, 
boldly reticulate, with slender prominent midrib and nerves ; lower 
surface dull, brown to dark-olivaceous, finely sparsely rusty-pubes- 
cent especially on the slender prominent nerves and midrib; nerves 
8—12; petiole subterete, slender, 6 mm. long, glabrous or with a 
few rusty hairs; stipules minute, lanceolate rusty-pubescent. 
Flower-clusters axillary and strung along the young shoots at -5—3 
cm. long intervals, subglobose, 4—6 mm. in diam. of numerous 
minute flowers ¢ and ? mixed, but usually one sex predominat- 
ing; bracteoles minute, ovate, acute, subfimbriate, + —rusty-pubes- 
cent and subcarinate on outer surface, glabrous on inner. <& flowers 
subsessile, subglobosely ovoid in bud, 1 mm. long; calyx pubescent 
on outer surface, glabrous on inner, divided more than halfway 
down into deltoid sepals; petals very minute, obovate or obcune- 
ate; disk lining the calyx cup, entire; glabrous; staminal column 
short ; pistillode the size of an anther, glabrous, 2 flowers subsessile 
obovoid, 2 mm. long; calyx as in the ¢ ; petals less than’5 mm. 
long, subspathulately obovate, subentire, glabrous or with a few 
hairs on outer surface; annulus of the disk dentate; ovary ovoid, 
compressed, glabrous; styles united below for a variable distance, 
glabrous; stigmas irregularly thickened. Fruit with subacute or 
acute ends, smooth, 7 mm. long, 4 mm. thick, with one elliptical 
pyrene. B. minutiflora, Hook. f.273; Gehrm. in Bot. Jahrbuch. 
XLI, Beibl. No. 95, 38; J. J. Smith, 310; Jabl. in Pflanzenreich, 
exo: 
Penance: K.C.1350!; Government Hill, 150 m. C. 527! ; Water- 
fall, C. 1719!. Perak: S.!; Ulu Kerling, K.C. 8576!; Penara 
Bukit, R. 7920! 
Distris. Lower Burma, Malayan Archipelago. 
Type sheet is C. 527. 
I am unable to detect any specific or even variotal difference between 
B. penangiana and B. minutiflora. Hooker refers to B. minutiffora as a very 
remarkable species on account of the solitary style. An examination of the 
type sheets has failed to yield a single flower with a solitary style. All the 
type flowers examined had styles of the ordinary character, united for a vari- 
able distance from the base and each bifid above. Hooker’s description appears 
therefore to have been based on one or several abnormal flowers, or possibly 
confused with that of B. cinnamomea, which hasa single style, and which itself as 
far as Hooker’s names in Kew Herbarium are concerned, is a mixture of a Bri- 
