508 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
parts. Branchlets pale yellowish-brown, 2—4 mm. thick; inter- 
nodes 1—2 em. long; flowering twigs 1 mm. thick. Lamine mem- 
branous or thinly coriaceous, elliptical or oblong-ovate or oblong 
obovate, 4—9 em. long, 1:5—3 cm. broad, with acute or subacumi- 
nate apex and rounded base; both surfaces somewhat dull, the 
upper dark olivaceous, obscurely reticulate, with indented midrib 
and slightly elevated nerves, the lower greenish-brown, with very 
slender nerves and prominent midrib; nerves 10—15, anastomos- 
ing near the margin; cross-nervules much broken up and scarcely 
distinct from the general open reticulation ; ultimate nervules very 
fine, forming a close subquadrate reticulation; petiole subterete 
channelled above, 5 mm. long, transversely wrinkled; stipules not 
seen. Flower-clusters strung along the short lateral twigs, of few 
flowers, os or 2 only; bracteoles not seen. o¢ flowers not seen 
2 perianth seen in fruit only; sepals deltoid-lanceolate; petal 
obovate-spathulate, with subcrenulate or retuse apical margin, 1— 
1-5 mm. long, glabrous; disk glabrous; annulus not seen; ovary 
hirsute. Capsule sessile, hirsute at base and apex, otherwise 
glabrous, light-brown. Seeds not seen. Jabl. in Pflanzenreich, 
Les ik 
PERAK: Goping, K.C. 4540! the type sheet in Kew Herbarium. 
15. CLEISTANTHUS DECURRENS, Hook. f. 278. Amany-stemmed 
shrub, 3—6 m. high, with arched branches. Branchlets 2—4 
mm. thick, pale yellowish-brown, glabrous, lenticellate; young 
twigs, very young leaves and buds + — rusty-tomentose or pubes- 
cent. Lamine subcoriaceous, oblong-elliptic or broadly lanceolate 
or oblanceolate, 7—17 cm. long, 2—7 cm. broad, with acute or acu- 
minate apex and cuneate base narrowing subcaudately to the 
petiole ; upper surface olivaceous, glabrous, subnitid, reticulate, 
lower dull green, glabrous or sparsely adpressedly scurfy on the 
midrib and nerves; the latter slender and slightly indented or 
upper, stouter and raised on lower surface; nerves 5—7, anasto- 
mosing near the margin; cross-nervules irregular and rather widely 
spaced ; reticulation fairly open; petiole 5—6 mm. long, channelled 
above, closely transversely wrinkled, rusty-tomentose to glabres- 
cent; stipules minute, triangular, + — rusty-pubescent. Flower- 
clusters strung along the lateral twigs, 3—4 mm. in diam., of ¢ 
and @ flowers mixed; bracteoles membranous, ovate, the inner 
ones rusty-tomentose, the outer ones glabrescent and dorsally cari- 
nate. dflowers ovoid in bud, 3—4 mm. long, subsessile; calyx 
