518 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
ovate or obovate, 10—17 cm. long, 4—6'5 cm. broad, with abruptly 
shortly acuminate apex and rounded to subcuneate base; upper 
surface at first fulvous tomentose, later glabrous or pubescent only 
on the slender midrib and nerves, dark olivaceous, finely obscurely 
reticulate ; lower surface dull brown, + — rufous pubescent especi- 
ally on the prominent nerves and midrib; nerves 8—9; cross 
nervules numerous, close, subparallel, connected by smaller, less 
regular secondary nervules; reticulation fine; petiole stout, sub- 
terete, + — rusty tomentose, 4—5 mm. long; stipules minute, 
caducous. Flower-clusters axillary, densely rufous tomentose, 4—5 
mm.in diam., of many minute flowers, #@ and 2 mixed, and 
almost entirely concealed by the bracteoles, that are broadly ovate, 
densely scurfy rufous tomentose on outer surface and glabrous on 
inner. @ flowers sessile, ovoid, 2°55 mm. long; calyx glabrous 
except for caducous scurfy rusty tomentose tufts on outer surface - 
of apex, divided about halfway down into ovate or deltoid lobes ; 
petals subquadrate, glabrous, ‘5 mm. long and broad, with sub- 
erenulate apical margin; disk subentire; pistillode subtrigonous, 
sparsely caducously scurfy pubescent, with trifid apex. ¢? flowers 
sessile, ovoid or fusiform in bud, 2—3 mm. long; calyxas in the @ ; 
petals oblong spatulate, glabrous, -5 mm. long, with subcrenulate 
apical margin ; annulus of the disk membranous, irregularly dentate ; 
ovary globosely ovoid, caducously densely hirsute, the entire hairy 
coat being readily removed, leaving the ovary glabrous; styles 
united for some distance, slender, short, subterete, glabrous, shortly 
bifid ; stigmas slightly thickened. Capsule on a 4 mm. long, terete, 
glabrous pedicel, § mm. in vertical and 1 cm. in transverse diam., 
glabrous, subnitid, reticulate. Seeds not seen mature. Jabl. in 
Pflanzenreich, l.c. 32. Bridelia rufa, Hook. f. 278. 
Penana: 30—120 m. K.C. 1351!; Waterfall, C. 1480 !. 
3. ACTEPHILA, Bl. 
Shrubs or trees, with simple, alternate, petiolate, stipulate, 
entire, penninerved leaves; lateral nerves of the laminze curved 
slightly outwards and forwards to inarch near the margin ; nervules 
irregular ; reticulation irregularly polygonal, fairly close. Flowers 
monoecious, petaliferous, axillary, in closely imbricatingly brac- 
teolate nodules or very small racemules, pedicelled, ¢ and 9 in the 
same axil or in different axils; calyx of both sexes 5-fid almost to 
the base, the sepals entire imbricate in bud persistent in the 2 ; 
