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glabrous or pubescent at the tip with lanceolate sepals ; petals very 
shortly clawed, 1 mm. long, glabrous, cbcuneate or obovate, with 
truncate or rounded erosulate apex; disk a broad fleshy glabrous 
annulus adherent to upper part of calyx cup; pistillode stout 
columnar, obscurely 3-ridged and obtusely trifid, caducously scurfy 
2 flowers sessile, conically ovoid in bud, 3—4 mm. long, with 
glabrous perianth and disk ; sepals lanceolate ; petals sessile, obo- 
vate, entire, 1 mm.long; annulus of disk narrow, membranous, sub- 
lobulate; ovary ovoid, densely hirsute; styles free, short, bifid 
stigmas spathellate. Capsule ona 5—7 mm. long terete, glabrous or 
sparsely hairy pedicel], 7 mm. in vertical, 9 mm. in transverse diam. 
at first sparsely tomentose, later glabrous except for a few hairs at. 
base and apex and in the sulci; cocci glabrous internally. Seed 
not seen. Jabl. in Pflanzenreich, l.c. 33. 
PENANG: Batu Ferengy, C. 3657!.; Perak: S. 1745!, 1916 x 
Goping, K.C. 476!; Larut, K.C. 4285!, 4637! 
The type sheets are Scortechini 1745 and 1916, and K.C. 476, all in Kew 
Herbarium. 
16. CLEISTANTHUS MACROPHYLLUS, Hook. f. 278. A tree 1- 
m. high, with spreading branches, glabrous on all vegetative parts. 
Twigs brown, 2—5 mm. thick. Lamine thinly coriaceous, narrow 
to broadly oblong-ovate or elliptical or broadly lanceolate or oblan- 
ceolate, 14—30 cm. long, 5—10 em. broad, with subcaudately acu- 
minate apex and cuneate base; upper surface glossy deep-green 
when fresh, olivaceous and subnitid when dry, boldly reticulate, 
lower surface greenish-brown, sub-vernicose ; midrib prominent or 
both surfaces, more so on lower; nerves 10, anastomosing near the 
margin; cross-nervules irregular, wide apart; reticulation some- 
what bold and open; petiole 6—-8 mm. long, corrugulate ; stipule 
minute, caducous, lanceolate. Flower-clusters strung along the 
lateral-twigs, 6—7 mm. in diam., of numerous flowers, # and 9 
mixed bracteoles ovate, acute, carinte, + — tomentose on outer sur- 
face, glabrous on inner. ¢ flower ovoid in bud, shortly pedicellate, 
