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[Connarus. 
Sungei Hudang. Perak, Ulu Slim (Kunstler). Penang Hill 
1000 ft. altitude (Curtis). Dislrib. Tenassenm. Native name: 
Akar Tulang Dayeng Padang. 
2. ELLIPANTHUS, Hook. fil. 
Trees. Leaves of one leaflet, elliptic-acuminate. Racemes or 
cymes axillary, short, few-flowered. Flowers small, white. Sepals 
5 valvate. Petals longer, oblong, pubescent. Stamens 10, 5 
shorter; filaments short; connate at base. Ovary 1, pubescent. 
Follicles stalked, oblique, usually beaked, brown velvety, valves 
glabrous within. Seed arillate. Species 12, Malayan. 
Leaves glabrous ....*• 
Leaves hairy beneath. 
Leaflets oblong-lanceolate ; flowers panicled . 
Leaflets ovate to elliptic. 
Flowers racemed . 
Flowers in dense cymes . 
(1) E. Scortechinii 
(2) E. Curtisii 
{3} E. Griffithii 
(4) E. gibbosus 
( 1 ) E. Scortechinii King, l.c. 8 . . 
Small tree. Leaves thinly coriaceous, narrow elliptic oblong, 
base narrowed, apex caudate, glabrous; nerves 4 pairs, prominent 
beneath 4*5 to 7 in. long, 1-25 to 2 in. wide; petioles *i to *15 m- 
long. Cymes tomentose. Calyx lobes ovate, tomentose. Petals 
little longer. Follicle oblique, elliptic, blunt, abruptly shortly 
stalked, tomentose, -5 in. long, *3 in. wide; pericarp thick. Seed 
oblong. Hab. Perak (Scortechini). 
(2) E. Curtisii King, l.c. 9. , . , , 
Tree. Leaves rather stiffly coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate long 
acuminate, base cuneate, above glabrous, shiny beneath, pubescent, 
midrib tomentose; nerves 7 to 8 pairs, prominent beneath, 2*5 to 
in. long, -8 to 1*5 in. wide; petioles -3 in. long tomentose. 
Panicles '4 to 7 in. long, silky. Flowers ‘2 in. long, white. Calyx- 
lobes ovate-lanceolate, tomentose. Petals more than twice as 
long, narrow oblong, pubescent. Ovary silky. Hab. Penang Hill, 
road to West Hill and Chalet (Curtis). 
(3) E. Griffithii Hook. fil. F.B.I. ii. 56; King, l.c. 10. 
Small tree about 30 to 60 ft. tall. Branchlets tomentose. 
Leaves thin coriaceous, elliptic caudate acuminate, base rounded 
above glabrous, shining beneath pubescent, midrib and 9 to 10 
pairs• nerves beneath tomentose, 4 to 5 in. long, i'5 to 2 m. wide, 
petioles -2 to *25 in. long. Racemes *25 in. long, branched, hairy. 
Flowers *2 in. across cream white. Sepals ovate hairy, petals 
oblong, hairy outside. Follicle compressed curved, hardly beaked 
1 in. long, ‘4 in. thick, narrowed to base into a stalk -2 in. long, 
sienna brown tomentose, 75 in. long. Hab. Dense woods, bmga- 
pore. Garden Jungle. Malacca (Griffith); Ayer Panas (Foxworthy). 
Use: Wood hard and durable, squares to 6 or 10 in. 
