516 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
petals very shortly clawed, obovate or subrhombic, acute, 1 mm. 
long; annulus entirely concealing the ovoid, glabrous ovary; styles 
united at the base, glabrous, very shortly bifid; stigmas clavellate. 
Capsule on a short stout pedicel, subglobose and 1 cm. in diam., 
glabrous, brownish-black. Seeds ovoid, compressed, black, glabrous, 
5 min. long, 4 mm. broad and 3 mm. thick. Hook. f. 275; Gamble, 
Man. Ind. Timbers, 2nd. edit. 598; Brandis, Ind. Trees, 561 ; Robin- 
son in Philip. Journ. Se. C. Bot. III, 190, Jabl. in Pflanzenreich, l.c. 
37. Nanopetalum myrianthum Hassk. in Verh. Kon. Ac. Amster. 
XXIV, 140; Mull. Arg. 610. 
SincAPoRE: Jurong, R. 3415!; Bukit Mandai, R. 3416!; Chu 
Chu Kang, R. 5986!; Kranji, R. 6515!. 
Distrip.—Assam, Lower Burma, Andamans and Nicobars, Ma- 
layan Archipelago, Philippines. 
25. CLEISTANTHUS PSEUDOMYRIANTHUS, Jabl. in Pflanzenreich, 
IV, 147; VIII, 41; (95). A small tree. Branchlets subterete, 
cinereous, glabrous, 1-5—4 mm. thick. Lamine coriaceous, oblong 
ovate or broadly elliptic, 8—4 cm. long, 3-5—6 em. broad, with 
shortly caudately acuminate apex and subacute to rounded base ; 
upper surface pale olivaceous, nitid, glabrous with slender midrib 
and nerves; lower “surface dull, subargenteous, very minutely ad- 
pressedly pubescent, with larger but still very small ramentiform 
brownish hairs scattered + — over the surface especially near the 
prominent midrib and nerves or glabrescent; nerves 8—10; cross 
nervules subparallel to rather irregular; petiole subterete, 4 mm. 
long, transversely closely wrinkled, adpressedly fulvous tomentose 
at first, later glabrous; stipules lanceolate, 3 mm. long, entire 
sparsely adpressedly fulvous pubescent. lower-clusters axillary 
ratker few flowered, apparently ¢ and 9 flowers in the same cluster, 
but ¢ flowers seen only in extremely minute bud; bracteoles broadly 
ovate or triangular, + — dorsally carinate, glabrous or minutely 
adpressedly sparsely pubescent on outer surface. 9? flowers sessile ; 
calyx 4 mm. long, split more than halfway down into 4—5 coriace- 
ous ovate acute sepals, glabrous; petals spatulate, 2 mm. long, 
glabrous, with + — erosulate, obtuse or acute apex; disk annular 
membranous, erect, entire or almost so, glabrous, closely embracing 
basal half of the ovoid glabrous ovary ; styles short, simple or very 
shortly bifid at apex. Fruit on a stout, 5 mm. long, glabrous, ob- 
conical pedicel; capsule seen only in pieces, apparently 1 cm. from 
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