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43 . EPIPRINUS, Griff. 
Shrub. Leaves alternate, entire. Flowers in dense thick 
spike-like pubescent racemes terminal apetalous. Male flowers 
crowded, pink, with females scattered at base of raceme. Calyx 
globose, 2- to 4-lobed. Stamens 5 to 15; filaments free; anthers 
large oblong, dorsi-fixed. Pistillode thick, 3-lobed Female flowers 
pedicelled. Sepals 5 or 6, much enlarged and pink in fruit, 
alternating with minute naked or biglandulai scales. Ovary 
3-celled; ovules x in a cell. Styles 3 , connate in a long stout column 
bifid and palmately lobed. Capsule large of 2 or 3 sub-globose 
bivalved cocci. Seeds sub-globose. Species 2, 1 in Cochmchma 
( 1 ) E. malayanus Griff. Notulce, iv. 487; Mull. Arg . m DC. 
Prod. xv. (2), 1024; Hook. ffl. F.B.I. v. 464. 
Shrub about 8 or 9 ft. tall, young parts scurfy. Leaves cori¬ 
aceous elliptic or lanceolate, shortly acute acuminate glabrous, 
base narrowed; nerves very stout beneath, 5 pairs; 6 to 12 in. 
long 3 to 4 in. wide; petioles 2 in. long; the leaves at the base 
of the inflorescence are frequently reduced to 2 in ong and nearly 
sessile. Racemes 2 or 3 in. long, very thick. Male| flowers_-i in. 
wide rose pink. Female flowers larger. Fruit yellowish, 1*5 m. 
wde' -75 in. long; sepals lanceolate acuminate, 175 m- long, 
Tin. wide at base, dark pink. Hab. Thkk forests. Malacca 
(Griffith) Kesang; Brisu; Selandor; Bukit Bruang (Derry). 
Negri Sembilan, Bukit Tumayiang, Bukit Sulu and Bukit Berum-. 
hun (Cantiev) Selangor, Klang Gates; Semangkok Pass at 
«oo ft altitude? Dusun Turn Perak, Trong (Wray); Lanit 
(Kunstler). Penang, Pass to Relau (Curtis). Ivedali, Yan woods. 
DM t Sumatra. Native names: Balong H.]au; Chendur; 
Chindra; Jarakhitam; Munot. 
44. CEPHALOMAPPA, Baill. 
Trees more or less tomentose. Leaves thinly coriaceous alter¬ 
nate Male flowers apetalous in panicled heads Female flowers 
solitary. Male calyx turbinate shortly 3- to 5"lobed lobes valvate. 
Stamens 2 to 5 on a thick common stalk on the calyx tube, fila- 
meSs free; anthers dorsified. Pistillode columnar. Female 
flowers • sepals 5 or 6 imbricate. Ovary 3-celled. Styles short, 
“connate at base. Stigmas palmate or bifid . Fruit 2- or 
g lobed covered with short, thick comc-cyhndnc processes. 
Soecies 2, Malay Peninsula and Borneo 
fi) C penangensis, Ridl. Kew Bulletin, 1923, p. 368. 
Tall tre?; branchlets velvety-scurfy. Leaves elliptic or obovate 
cuspidate base blunt narrowed, edge sparsely toothed thinly 
coriaceous * nerves 7 pairs elevate beneath with distant trans- 
verse nervules, pubescent scurfy, rest dotted with scurfy spots; 
6 ^ 8 in. long, 3 to 4 in. wide; petioles tomentose strongly thickened 
