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Mor. Syst. Verz. 53. — C. eriosiphon Schauer, DC, 

 Prodr. XI, 662 (1847); Miq. Fl. Ind. bat. 11, 869; Hall. f. 

 I.e. 73. — C. obtusidens Miq. I.e. 870 (1856) and suppl. 

 I, 242. — A shrub; branehlets quadrangular, minutely 

 pubeseent, as are eymes and petioles; feayes very variable 

 in most eharaeters, membranous to coriaeeous, laneeolate 

 to oblong, base usually acute, sometimes narrowly obtuse, 

 apex acute or shortly, acutely or obtusely acuminate; 

 margins entire or from distantly denticulate to coarsely 

 and more or less irregularly serrato-sinuate or undulate; 

 pairs of nerves 5 — 7, usually little prominent; upper 

 surface with all transitory forms from rugose to nearly 

 glabrous; lower one glabrous, pubescent on the nerves; 

 5yo— 22V2 by 2—8 cM.; petioles V2— 7 cM.; cymes lax, 

 glabrous or ± pubescent, the upper ones in a terminal, 

 leafy panicle; calyx on very slender, 0.7—1 cM. long 

 pedicel, 0.6—1.2 cM. long, 5-cleft almost down to base; 

 segments narrow, very acute, softly pubescent without; 

 in fruit enlarged and retused; corolla softly pubescent 

 without; tube cylindric, slender, 2—3.1 cM.; lobes elliptical. 

 0.6—0.8 cM. long; stamens 1 — 1.5 cM. exserted, as is 

 the very shortly bifid or subtruncate style; inserted in the 

 throat; style 4— 4V2 cM.; fruit globose, seated on the to 

 1.5 cM. enlarged calyx, the segments of which are 

 reflexed. 



Sumatra: Miguel in H. A. R.-T. sub no. 049913 

 {C. obtusidens). — Forbes no. 2113, Ranau, firs, yellowish 

 white, 600 M.; id. no. 2033, Mt. Besagi, 1100 M., a 

 large shrub, firs, white; id. no. 2470. 



Java: Horspeld in H. A. R.— T. sub nos. 049911 and 

 049912. — Reinwardt in H. L — B. sub nos. 908.263—428 

 and 429. — p. Hasselt in H. L.— B. sub nos. 908.266-628 

 and 908.267—625. - Kuhl et v. Hasselt in H. L.— B. 

 sub no. 908.265—1166—? Blume in H. L.— B. sub nos. 

 908.263—446 and 481, Salak; also no. —486, Seribu. — 



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