172 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
reaching a height of 60 feet and considerable girth ; branchlets 
slender, dark brown, innovations rusty-tomentose. Leaves chartaceous; 
elliptic, elliptic-oblong or elliptic-lanceolate, obtusely and rather 
abruptly candate-acuminate at apex, acute at base and unequal-sided ; 
glabrous on both surfaces, the margins slightly recurved; 4 to 5 in. 
long, 1-5 to 2 in. broad ; midrib prominent, slender ; main-nerves 
10 to 12 pairs, not prominent, rather irregular, -3 to '4 in. apart, starting 
at an angle of about 60° with the midrib, straight at first, arching near 
the margin to meet in a looped intramarginal nerve ; secondary nerves 
and reticulations rather scanty ; petiole -4 in. long, channelled above ; 
stipules very minute, linear, silky-pubescent, caducous. Floivers 
fascicled, 1 to 4 together, in the axils of upper leaves ; pedicels slender, 
■7 to -8 in. long, somewhat clavate, minutely silky ; buds conical, - 1 to 
•2 in. long. Calyx-lobes 4, 2 outer valvate, thick, enclosing 2 inner, 
broad, ovate, obtuse, ciliate, often scarious on the margins, -2 in. long. 
Corolla white, campanulate, - 2 to ‘3 in. long ; tube short ; lobes 8, 
oblong, obtuse or rounded in 2 rows, 4 outer enclosing 4 inner. 
Stamens 16, - 12 in. long ; filaments short, thick ; anthers ovate, the 
connective produced into an obtuse, glabrous, often bifid acumen, cells 
extrorse. Ovary villous, rounded ; style subulate, glabrous, -3 in. long, 
6-eelled. Fruit an oblong, ferruginous-pubescent berry, 1 to 1-5 in. 
long, -7 in. broad, 1-seeded. Seed oblong, bluntly acute at both ends, 
flattened, -8 in. long, -5 in. broad, -3 in. thick ; testa chartaceous, 
chestnut-brown, shining ; hilum about - 15 in. broad occupying the 
whole inner edge ; albumen thick ; cotyledons oblong, thin, flat, faintly 
nerved as the leaves, '6 in. long, -4 in. broad ; radicle rather large, 
inferior. Kurz For. FI. II. 121, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XL. ii. 69, and 
XLVI. ii. 230 ; Clarke in Hook. f. FI. Br. Ind. III. 547 ; Pierre in Bull. 
Soc. Linn. Par. I. 525. Mimusops lucida, Wall. Cat. 4147 ; G. Don 
Gen. Syst. IV. 35 ( not of Poir.). 
Penang : Wallich 4147. Perak : Scortechini 1989 ; Wray 2266, 
3114, 3191, 3482 ; King's Collector 3364, 3734, 6636. Singapore : 
Lobb 307 ; Ridley. 
Var. Wightii, Clarke in Hook. f. FI. Br. Ind. III. 548. Leaves large, 
up to 6 in. long and 2-5 broad, coriaceous ; pedicels stout ; sepals 
large, rusty-tomentose. Payena polyandra, Bth. & Hook. f. ; Pierre 
in Bull. Linn. Soc. Par. I. 526. Isonandra polyandra, Wight Ic. 
t. 1589. Kcratephorus Wightii, Hassk. in Retzia I. 101. 
Of this variety Clarke makes two forms, which he distinguishes chiefly by the 
former having short acuminations to the leaves, the latter long acuminate leaves. We 
have separated the material into these two groups as well as we can. 
Form (1) : Leaves up to 6 in. long, 2-5 in. broad, abruptly acuminate, shining 
