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pubescent panicles, P5 to 3 in. long ; rachis angular, swollen at the 
nodes ; bracts subulate, recurved, -1 in. long ; bracteoles triangular, 
minute. Calyx-tube very short ; lobes 4, triangular, acuminate. 
Corolla yellowish- or greenish - white, fleshy ; tube urceolate, '05 
to - 1 in. long; lobes oblong, incurved, -05 in. long, induplicate- 
valvate in bud. Stamens 2, inserted on the tube of the corolla ; fila- 
ments very short, broad ; anthers ovate, rather large. Ovary ovoid ; 
style 0 ; stigma 2-lobed ; cells 2, ovules 2 in each cell, erect from a 
minute basal central placenta. Berry ovoid or globose, - 5 to '7 in. in 
diam., rough, surmounted by the persistent stigma, blueish-black when 
ripe ; cells 2. Seeds 2 to 4, erect on an enlarged placenta at the base 
of the central dissepiment ; albumen fleshy, testa membranous. Mus. 
Bot. Lugd. Bat. I. 320, t. 51; A.DC. Prod. VIII. 290; Miq. PL Ind. 
Bat. II. 549 ; Clarke in Hook. f. PL Br. Ind. III. 618. 
Penang : Curtis 2849. Perak : Wray 2139, 2834, 4179 ; Scortechini 
532, 5986 ; King’s Collector 3584, 4544, 7392, 8845. Malacca : Main- 
gay (K.D.) 996/3 — Distrib. Sumatra (Forbes 1585, in the Lam- 
pongs) ; Java. 
