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scattered, sub-membranous, elliptic-ovate to lanceolate long- 
acuminate, base acute or blunt, 1 to 3 in. long, -5 to 1*5 in. wide; 
petioles -i in. long or less. Flowers in axillary and terminal 
peduncled racemes puberulous, gradually lengthening to 1-5 in. 
long as the flowers fall, slender. Perianth *35 in. long, slender, 
greenish yellow. Drupe ellipsoid-ovoid, -27 in. long, red. Hab. 
Mountain woods up to 5500 ft. altitude. Variable in size and 
dimensions of leaves according to exposure and soil. Pahang, 
Kluang Terbang (Barnes); Telom; Gunong Tahan. Perak, 
Gunong Bubu (Wray); Thaiping Hills (Kunstler, Wray); Gunong 
Inas (Yapp and Wray), Kedah, Gunong Bintang. Distrib. Java. 
Native name: Chandan. Use : The heartwood as incense (Ridl. 
Journ. Roy. /Is. Soc. S. Br. xxxv. 80). 
(3) W. Ridleyi Gamble, Kew Bulletin, 1912, p. 200; Journ. 
As. Soc. Beng. l.c. 260. (Fig. 147, p. 145.) 
Shrub, little branched, 2 to 4 ft. tall. Leaves membranous, 
lanceolate acute or acuminate; nerves very fine and inconspicuous, 
275 to 5 in. long, 1 to 1*6 in. wide; petioles under -i in. long. 
Flowers in terminal umbels of 4 to 6 on very short peduncles. 
Perianth yellow, *5 in. long, lobes oblong, blunt. Drupe ellipsoid, 
•24 in. long, bright red. Hab. Sandy open country on the east 
coast chiefly, Pahang, Pekan. Tringganu, Pulau Ketam. Lan- 
kawi, Burau Bay (Robinson). Native name: Deru Pelandok. 
Malay Poisons, Gimlette, p. 197. 
This plant, brought from Penang in 1890, ran wild for some time in 
Tanglin, Singapore. It has larger leaves and flowers than W. Candolleana, 
and a shorter peduncle, and does not lengthen the inflorescence in flowering 
as W. Candolleana does. It is poisonous. 
3 . LINOSTOMA, Wall. 
Erect shrubs or climbers. Leaves opposite or sub-opposite. 
Flowers bisexual in small panicled or umbelled cymes with con¬ 
spicuous white floral leaves; bracts 2, leafy. Perianth-tube 
cylindric; lobes 5, scales 10 in the tube mouth. Stamens 10, 
insert at mouth below scales; filaments exsert; anthers ovoid or 
oblong, blunt, connective enlarged. Disc annular lobed. Ovary 
stipitate, hairy; style filiform. Fruit ovoid enclosed in the enlarged 
urceolate perianth-tube. Species 6, 3 Indo-Malaya, 3 Brazil. 
(1) L. pauciflorum Griff. Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. iv. 234; 
Gamble, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. l.c. 261. 
Very lofty, woody climber with pendent branches. Leaves 
chartaceous, glabrous elliptic or obovate blunt at top, round at 
base, 1 in. long, -5 in. wide, terminal leaves thin, conspicuously 
white (rarely rose pink). Flowers pendulous, light green, *6 in. 
long, slender. Fruit -5 in. long. Hab. Common in the south, 
Singapore, Garden Jungle; Changi Loyang; Bukit Timah. 
Malacca (Griffith). Dindings, Bangkor (Scortechini), Lumut. 
