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base to apex, glabrous, with exocarp + — reticulate on both surfaces. 
Seed broadly scarabaeoid, 5—6 mm. long and broad. 
Perak: Sungei Larut,W. 2486 !, the type in Kew Herbarium. 
26. CLEISTANTHUS BLLIPTICUS, Hook. f.281. A shrub or tree : 
10—14 m. high, with spreading branches. Branchlets 2—5 mm. thick 
pale-brown, glabrous or pubescent above; young twigs 2—3 mm. 
thick, + — rusty-pubescent ; internodes -5—5 em. long. Lamine 
coriaceous, elliptic-obovate or ovate, 6—24 cm. long, 3—10 cm. 
broad, with subacute or shortly caudately acuminate apex and cune- 
ate base; upper surface dark green when fresh, olivaceous when dry, 
glabrous or rusty-pubescent on midrib, subnitid, obscurely reticulate ; 
lower surface dull brown, sparsely very minutely adpressedly rusty- 
scaly pubescent or glabrescent ; midrib and nerves evident on upper 
and prominent on lower surface ; nerves 8; petiole -5—1 cm. long, 
rufous-tomentose to glabrescent; stipules not seen. lower-clusters 
1 cm. in diam., densely fulvous-tomentose, of 3 or 2 flowers only; 
bracteoles broadly ovate, densely rufous-tomentose on outer, glab- 
rous on inner surface. ¢ flowers in bud ovoid, 3 mm. long; calyx 
rufous-tomentose externally towards the apex, glabrous internally ; 
sepals deltoid lanceolate ; petals flabelliform, crenulate, less than 
1 mm. long and broad, glabrous ; disk lining the calyx cup, entire ; 
pistillode short, stout, columnar, trifid, densely hirsute. 92 flowers 
with calyx of the ¢ ; petals obovate-spathulate, entire, 1 mm. long ; 
annulus of the disk, membranous; ovary not seen. Capsule ona 
stout, glabrous, terete, 1 mm. long pedicel, subglobose, glabrous 1-1 
cm. in both diameters. Seeds elongately ovoid, 8 mm. long, 5 mm. 
broad, 4 mm. thick, with convex subcarinate dorsal and ill-defined 
ventro-lateral surfaces, rounded apex and cordately excavate base. 
Jabl. in Pflanzenreich, I.c. 32. 
Penane: Batu Ferengy, C. 3657!. Prraxk: Larut, K.C. 2018! 
2080 !, 2769!, 3739!, 3755 !, 5162!; Assam Kumbong, W. 1930! 
. Kota, W. 2547!; Trong, W. 2763!; Thaipeng, Burn Murdoch 
Hrs: 
The type sheet is K.C. 3739 in Kew Herbarium. 
27. CLEISTANTHUS RUFUS (Hook. f.), Gehrm. Bot. Jahr. - 
buch. XLI, Beibl. No. 95, 42 (1908). A sparingly branched shrub, 
3—4 m. high. Branchlets terete, 2—5 mm. thick, pale yellowish 
brown, glabrous below, scurfy rusty pubescent higher up ; inter- 
nodes ‘5—3'5 cm. long. Lamine membranous or thinly coriaceous 
