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slender paniculate cymes, 1 to 2 in. long ; rachis somewhat angular, 
minutely pubescent ; bracts leafy, lanceolate, - 5 to 1 in. long ; bracteoles 
similar or sometimes subulate-spathulate ; pedicels slender, -1 in. long, 
reflexed. Calyx-tube very short ; lobes 4, ovate-acute, '025 in. long, 
ciliate. Corolla-tube '03 to '05 in. long ; lobes 4, induplicate-valvate, 
linear, -1 in. long. Stamens 2, inserted at the base of the corolla-tube, 
■05 in. long ; filaments slender ; anthers elliptic, cells dehiscing 
laterally, connective mucronate. Ovary conical ; style 0 ; stigma minute, 
bifid ; cells 2. Fruit not seen. 
Perak: on Gunong Bubu, 5,000 feet, Wray 3871. Pahang : Barnes 
10896. 
We have hesitated whether to describe this species as Olea or Linodera, for the 
corolla-tube is not very long, and the lobes are like those of the latter genus, but the 
character of the leaves is distinctly that of Olea. 
5. Myxopyrum, Blume. 
Large scandent shrubs with quadrangular branches. Leaves oppo- 
site, large, triplinerved, entire or denticulate. Flowers small, yellow, 
very numerous, in axillary and terminal trichotomous panicles. Calyx- 
tube short, lobes 4. Corolla fleshy ; tube urceolate ; lobes 4, concave, 
induplicate-valvate in bud. Stamens 2, inserted on the base of the 
corolla-tube ; filaments very short ; anthers rather large, ovate, cells 
dehiscing laterally. Ovary 2-celled ; style very short or 0, stigma 
2-lobed ; ovules 1 to 2 in each cell, attached near the base at the inner 
angle. Fruit a 1-2-seeded sub-globose berry ; pericarp crustaeeous. 
Seeds 1 to 4, erect, testa membranous, albumen thick ; cotyledons 
flat, ovate, radicle inferior. — Distrib. India and Malaya, 3 species. 
Myxopyrum nervosum, Blume Bijdr. 683 (1826). A large climbing 
shrub ; branches with fibrous pale brown bark ; branchlets prominently 
quadrangular. Leaves coriaceous ; elliptic or elliptic-oblong or elliptic- 
lanceolate, acuminate at apex, cuneate or rounded at base ; glabrous on 
both surfaces ; margins entire or denticulate in the upper half, promi- 
nently recurved ; 4 to 7 in. long, 1-5 to 3'5 in. broad ; midrib thick, pro- 
minent beneath, impressed above ; main-nerves 4 to 6 pairs, the lowest 
pair opposite, very prominent, starting a little above the base and form- 
ing an intramarginal nerve looped only after where it meets the rest at 
about two-thirds of the way up, the next pair not opposite and only 
starting from about half the length of the leaf ; secondary nerves few, 
reticulations irregular, prominent in dry specimens ; petiole ‘3 to '5 in. 
long, often twisted, channelled above, articulate at the base. Flowers 
sessile, in terminal or axillary or extra-axillary, trichotomous, minutely 
