520 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
1 mm. long, with obtuse entire or erosulate apex; disc annular 
1 mm. broad, shallowly subcrenulate; ovary obtusely trigonously 
ovoid, 2 mm. in diam., densely fulvous tomentose, externally, 
glabrous internally; styles united at the base, entire, spreading, 
2:5 mm. long, fleshly subulate, with subcapitate, slightly recurved 
stigmatic apex. Capsule about 15 cm. from base to apex; cocci 
minutely sparsely adpressedly pubescent, breaking into 2 valves; 
epicarp and mesocarp coriaceous, with inner surface of mesocarp 
reticulately rugulose ; endocarp crustaceous, finely rugulose on inner 
surface. Seeds subcordately ovoid, 1 em. long and broad, 6 mm. 
thick, with crustaceous smooth obscurely mottled testa. Dimor- 
phocalyx ovalis Ridley in Journ. Straits Br. Roy. Asiat. Soc. No. 50, 
178 (1911). 
Peruis: Kanya, R. 14890!. Lanexawi: Coah, C.! 
This remarkable species has a deceptive resemblance to a Dimorphocalyx 
but the 2-ovuled loculi and the absence of albumen, with the presence of the 
outerplicated cotyledons declare it an Actephila. 
2. ACTEPHILA EXCELSA, Mull. Arg. in Linnaea XXXII, 78 
(1863). 
A shrub. Branchlets 155—3 mm. thick, pale brown, glabrous 
or + minutely hirtellous; internodes ‘5—3 cm. long Lamine 
elliptical lanceolate, thinly coriaceous, 6—17 em. long, 1°8—4°5 em. 
broad, with acute or acuminate apex and cuneate or subcuneate 
base, glabrous on both surfaces, subnitid on upper, dull on lower ; 
nerves and midrib slender; nerves 10—12; reticulation fairly clear 
petiole 3—4 mm. long, stoutish, glabrous or sparsely hirtellous ; sti- 
pules deciduous, scarious, lanceolate, 2—3 mm. long, entire, glabrous 
or with a few minute hairs on outer surface. Male flowers usually 
several in an axil, females several or solitary; bracteoles broadly 
ovate, entire, 1—2 mm. long and broad, membranous, + concave, 
with a few minute hairs on the outer, glabrous on the inner surface ; 
male flower pedicels slender, subterete, 5—6 mm. long. thickening 
towards the calyx, + sparsely hirtellous; male calyx subcampanul- 
ate, 3 mm. long, sepals somewhat unequal, oblong ovate or broadly 
lanceolate, + sparsely minutely adpressedly hairy on outer glabrous 
on inner surface; petals narrowly spathulate, glabrous, entire, 
1—1°5 mm. long; disc annular, crenulate; stamens free; pistillode 
columnar. Pedicel of female flowers slender, up to 5 cm. long 
thickening gradually to the calyx, glabrous or with a few minute 
adpressed hairs; perianth and disc as in the male but somewhat 
