510 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
rounded or subtruncate, crenulate apex; disk projecting usually 
beyond the calyx-cup, thick, fleshy, lobulately dentate; annulus 
given off about halfway up, membranous; ovary ovoid, densely 
hirsute; styles short, stout, shortly bifid; stigmas irregularly 
clavate. Capsule ona stout, terete, glabrous, "8—1 cm. long, pedicel 
9 mm. in vertical, 1:5 cm. in transverse diam., glabrous except for 
a few hairs at base and apex and in the sulci. Seeds seen only 
immature, ovoid, corrugulate, 7 mm. long, 5 mm. broad, 4 mm. thick 
Jabl. in Pflanzenreich, I.c. 35. 
Perak: S. 1759!; Goping, K.C. 4314!, 6182!; Srneapore! 
Bukit Timah, R. 6478 !, 6518!, 10,441! 
The type sheet is Scortechint 1759 in Kew Herbarium. 
17. CLEISTANTHUS LANUGINOSUS, Jabl. in Pflanzenreich, IV, 
147; VII, 26; (1915). Branchlets dark-brown, irregularly scurfy- 
pubescent or glabrescent, 3—5 mm. thick; young twigs 2—3 mm. 
thick, densely fulvous-tomentose; internodes 1:°5—3 cm. long. 
Lamine thinly coriaceous, elliptic-lanceolate, 12—22 cm. long, 4—7 
cm. broad, with acuminate apex and cuneate base; upper surface 
olivaceous, glabrous or + — pubescent on midrib, subnitid, reticu- 
late; lower surface dull, glaucous, villose especially on the promi- 
nent midrib, nerves and nervules glabrescent; nerves 10—12 
anastomosing near the margin; cross-nervules rather distant, con- 
nected by a rather open network; ultimate reticulation visible only 
by transmitted light, close, subquadrate; petiole very stout, 8 mm. 
long, 2—3 mm. thick, densely fulvous-tomentose ; stipules persist- 
ent, ovate acuminate to subulate, + — rigid, fulvous-tomentose at 
first, later glabrescent ; -7—1 em. long. Flower-clusters 1—1:5 cm. 
in diam., of few rather large flowers, ¢ and 2 mixed; bracteoles 
rather large, ovate, acute or acuminate, + — hirsute and subcarin- 
ate on outer surface, glabrous on inner. co flowers subsessile, ovoid 
in bud, turbinate when open, 7 mm. long; sepals deltoid or lanceo- 
late, + — hirsute on outer surface, glabrous, on inner; petals sub- 
cuneately obovate, 1 mm. long, glabrous, apical margin irregularly 
dentate; disk lining the calyx cup, glabrous, entire; staminal column 
3 mm. long, glabrous; pistillode ovoid, glabrous, 3-fid. 9 flowers 
subglobosely ovoid ; calyx asin @; petals obovate subacute or sub- 
rhombic, subcrenulate, glabrous, 2 mm. long; annulus membranous ; 
ovary subglobosely ovoid, densely hirsute; styles connate below, 
short, slender, glabrous, shortly 2-fid; stigmas slightly subspathu- 
lately thickened. Capsule not seen mature, deciduously hirsute. 
