512 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
thick. Lamine membranous, elliptical, lanceolate, 8—13 em. long, 
3—5 cm. broad, with long acuminate apex and acute or cuneate. 
base; upper surface dark brown-olivaceous, glabrous, subnitid,. 
obscurely reticulate ; lower surface dull-brown, + — glaucous, + — 
hirsute on midrib and nerves, which are slender and prominent on 
lower, and indented on upper surface; nerves 6—8; cross-nervules 
somewhat distant and irregular, connected by an open reticulation ; 
ultimate reticulation, visible only by transmitted light, close; 
petiole slender, glabrous, closely wrinked, 5—6 mm. long ; stipules 
not seen. Flower-clusters axillary and on short lateral spiciform 
twigs, small, of few flowers, ¢ or 2 only; bracteoles minute, ovate, 
acute or acuminate, + — adpressedly hirsute and carinate on outer 
surface, glabrous on inner. <¢ flowers not seen. 9 flowers sessile 
ovoid, with glabrous perianth; sepals deltoid or lanceolate; petal 
shortly clawed, subspathulately obovate, subcrenulate, 1:5 mm. 
long ; disk and membranous annulus glabrous; ovary subglobosely 
ovoid, hirsute; styles united at the base, short, subterete, glabrous 
shortly bifid; stigmas subspathulate. Capsule sessile, 8 mm. in 
vertical, 11 mm. in transverse diam., glabrous except for a few hairs 
at apex, base and in the sulci, black, polished, obscurely reticulate, 
Seeds brown and yellow mottled, smooth, 6 mm. long, 5 mm. broad 
and 4 mm. thick, with subacute apex and obtuse excavate base. 
Dinpine: Gunong Tungul, R. 9440! 
20. CLEISTANTHUS POLYPHYLUS, Williams in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 
2me Ser. V, 31 (1905). A small bushy tree, 3—5 m. high, with 
numerous, closely-ranked, rather small leaves. Branchlets dark- 
brown, glabrous or scurfy-pubescent, 2—5 mm. thick; flowering 
twigs 1 mm. thick, + — rusty or yellowish-pubescent ; internodes 
‘S—2 cm. long. Lamine thinly coriaceous, broadly lanceolate or 
ovate or obovate, 5—8 cm. Jong, 1—3 cm. broad, with acute or 
shertly acumjnate apex and rounded or subcuneate base; upper 
surface pale olivaceous to dark brown, subnitid, + — pubescent on 
midrib, otherwise glabrous, obscurely reticulate, with very slender 
midrib and nerves; lower surface dull, pale olivaceous to light- 
brown, +-— glaucous, + — pubescent especially on the slender 
prominent nervesand midrib ; nerves 5—7 ; petiole slender, hirsute, 
2 mm. long; stipules persistent, subulate to finely aculeate, at first 
pubescent, then glabrous, 5—8 mm. long. Flower-clusters axillary and 
also spiciformly congested on short lateral twigs, of rather few and 
iy (See ab Ak x 
