504 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
em. long, 1:°5—3'5 cm. broad, with acuminate apex and acute or 
cuneate base; upper surface olivaceous, subnitid, obscurely reticu- 
late, with slender midrib and nerves ; lower surface brown, glabrous 
or with a few hairs near base of midrib, dull, reticulate, with nerves 
and midrib prominent; nerves 6—8, anastomosing near the margin ; 
cross-nervules irregular, scarcely distinguishable; ultimate reticula- 
tion visible only by transmitted light, fine, close ; petiole subterete, 
glabrous or sparsely setulose, closely transversely wrinkled, 6—8 
mm. long; stipules subpersistent, subulate to aculeate, rigid, rusty- 
pubescent to glabrous, 6 mm. long Jlower-clusters axillary, of 
rather few flowers with one sex predominant; bracteoles broadly 
ovate, with abruptly caudate apex, + — rusty-pubescent and sub- 
carinate on outer surface, glabrous on inner or with a few basal 
hairs. @ flowers shortly pseudo-pedicellate, obpyriform in bud, 
3 mm. long; calyx pubescent externally, glabrous internally, sepals 
deltoid ; petals subrhombic to subreniform, glabrous, crenulate ; 
retuse or apiculate, less than °5 mm. long; disk glabrous, with sub- 
crenulate margin, glandular opposite the petals; staminal column 
short; pistillode subconically ovoid with obtusely trifid apex. 9 
flowers and fruit not seen. 
PERAK: Gunong Keledang, R. 9578 !. 
The number 9578 has also been given to a specimen of C. flavescens Jabl. 
from Sundeng Keledang. See under C. flavescens. 
10. CLEISTANTHUS MALACCENSIS, Hook. f. 277. Twigs brown, 
1—3 mm. thick, glabrous or fulvous-tomentose or sparsely rusty- 
pubescent near the apices, Lamine subcoriaceous, lanceolate, 5:-5— 
14 cm. long, 4 cm. broad, with acuminate apex and acute or cune- 
ate base, glabrous, dark-brown on upper, paler brown on lower sur- 
face; nerves 4—6 anastomosing near the margin; cross nervules 
numerous, close, subparallel; petiole slender, glabrous, subterete, 
5—6 mm. long; stipules not seen. Flower-clusters axillary and 
strung at short intervals along slender short simple or longer pani- 
culately branched lateral twigs, 2—3 mm. in diam., with few minute 
flowers; bracteoles ovate, glabrous on inner surface, with easily 
removed scurfy fulvous scale-like hairs on outer. ¢@ flowers sessile, 
ovoid in bud, 2 mm. long, glabrous; sepals ovate ; petals spathu- 
late; disk circular pulvinate; pistillode subconically columnar, 
caducously rusty tomentose, obscurely 3-lobed. 2 flowers in bud 
conically ovoid, glabrous, 2 mm. long; sepals lanceolate; petals 
oblong-obovate, glabrous, less than ‘5 mm. long; entire 7 annulus of 
