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14. Bassia Motleyana, Clarke in Hook. f. FI. Br. Ind. III. 546 
(1882). An erect lofty tree of swampy places; branchlets dark brown, 
marked by prominent leaf-scars. Leaves coriaceous ; elliptic, shortly and 
abruptly acuminate at apex, cuneate at base, the two sides sometimes- 
unequal ; glabrous on both surfaces ; 4 to 5 in. long, 1'5 to 2-5 in. broad ; 
midrib prominent, raised above ; main-nerves 10 to 12 pairs, irregularly 
spaced, generally at about an angle of 60° with the midrib, meeting near 
the margin in a looped intramarginal nerve ; secondary nerves prominent, 
similar to the main-nerves, reticulations few; petiole -8 to l - 2 in. long, 
rather thick, bordered by the decurrent margins of the blade. Flowers 
fascicled, many together (10 to 12), in the axils of the leaves or of the 
scars of fallen leaves below the terminal tuft, often fully clothing 
the branchlets for a distance of 6 in. or more ; pedicels slender, -4 to 
•7 in. long, buds ovoid. Calyx-lobes 4, -15 to -2 in. long, ovate, obtuse 
or somewhat acute, sparsely pubescent, the inner pair somewhat 
scarious on the margins. Corolla campanulate, ‘15 to '2 in. long ; 
tube short, about £ of the whole ; lobes 8, 4 outer enclosing 4 inner, 
oblong-spathulate, obtuse at tip and ciliately ferruginous-pubescent. 
Stamens 16, inserted on the top of the tube on a ring of long ferruginous- 
hairs ; filaments short, slender ; anthers ovate-lanceolate, short-apiculate.. 
Ovary rounded, villous, 6-8-celled ; style '5 in. long, thick, sparsely 
pubescent. Fruit an obovoid glabrous berry, acute at top and 
furnished with the remains of the persistent style ; calyx-lobes also 
persistent ; '5 in. long, -3 in. broad, 1-2-seeded. Seeds oblong, acute at 
both ends ; testa crustaceous, shining ; albumen none ; cotyledons 
fleshy; radicle small. Burck in Ann. Jard. Buit. V. 44. Isonandra 
Motleyana, de Vriese in Miq. Journ. Bot. Neerl, I. (1861) 257. 
Malacca: Griffith (K.O .) 3608; Derry 1026. Johore : Bidley 64.96. 
Singapore : Bidley 5645, 5896. — Distrib. Borneo {fide Burck). 
De Vriese says the milky juice gives a gutta of bad quality, being more waxy and 
fragile than that of other kinds. 
Yar. Scortechmii, King & Gamble. Leaves much larger, 6 to 8 in., 
long, 2-5 to 3'5 in. broad, main-nerves 15 or 16 pairs. Fruit nearly 
globose — a dark green berry, shining when dry. 
Perak: Scortechini, at Port Weld, No. 1550; King’s Collector 5454, 
6735, on low, wet ground — a tree reaching 60 to 80 feet in height and 
15 to 20 in. in diam. 
15. Bassia cuneata, Bl. Bijdr. 675. A tree (?) ; branchlets dark 
brown, scarred, rather thick. Leaves coriaceous ; clustered at the 
ends of the branchlets, greenish-brown when dry, obovate, obtuse- 
emarginate or very shortly and abruptly acute at apex, cuneate at base ; 
