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thick woods at no great elevation. Singapore, Garden Jungle; 
Kranji. Malacca, Bukit Sadanen; Ayer Panas. Sungei Ujong 
(Cantley). Pahang, Pahang River. Selangor, Batu caves; Snngei 
Buluh. Dindings. Perak, Thaiping Hills; Slim; Ipoh (Kunstler). 
Penang Hill 2000 ft. altitude (Curtis). Disirib. Sumatra. Native 
names : Poko Pisang-Pisang Paya or Kechil; Poko Chingkring. 
(2) P. lucidus Oliv. Hook. fit. Ic. PL t. 1561; King, Journ. As. 
Soc. Beng. l.c. 122; Ann. Bot. Card. Calc. l.c. 153, pi. 200B. 
Usually a bush with straight, black stems and tough bark; 
branchlets brown-furry. Leaves papery-membranous, dark green 
above, shiny beneath, oblong-elliptic or lanceolate acuminate, base 
cuneate, glabrous except midrib pubescent beneath; nerves 8 pairs, 
rather prominent beneath; 4-5 to 6-5 in. long, 1*25 to 2*25 in. wide; 
petioles '2 in. long. Flowers - 6 to 1 in. across on pedicels 1 to 
i'25 in. long, puberulous. Sepals ovate acute almost triangular, 
edged with red fur. Petals, outer ones more lanceolate, otherwise 
similar to sepals; inner ones thick, oblong-ovate acute green 
•5 in. long, pubescent both sides. Stamens, appendages square 
truncate. Ovaries numerous, green, i-ovuled. Carpels oblong 
fleshy, '6 in. long, *3 in. through, red, smooth and shining dotted 
all over with shining hairs; stalks *5 to -6 in. long. Hah. Thick 
forests. Common; flowers September. Singapore, Garden Jungle; 
Tanglin. Johor; Serom. Pahang at Pulau Tawar. Malacca, 
Bukit Besar; Mt. Ophir. Selangor, Batu caves. Perak, Thaiping 
Hills; Ulu Bubong (Kunstler). Penang Hill at 500 ft. altitude 
(Curtis). 
26 . MILIUSA, Lesch. 
Trees or shrubs. Flowers often unisexual, green or purple, 
axillary or extra-axillary solitary (fascicled or cymose). Sepals 3, 
small, valvate. Petals 6, vatVate in two series, outer small like 
the sepals; inner larger, when young cohering by the margins, at 
length free. Torus elongate, cylindric. Stamens definite or 
indefinite; anther-cells contiguous, ovoid, extrorse; appendages 
broad. Ovaries indefinite, linear-oblong; » ovules 1 to 2, rarely 
3 to 4. Species about 12. 
Leaves narrowed to base. 
Flowers nearly 1 in. across . . . . (1) M. longipes 
Flowers -25 in. wide . . . . . (2) M. parviflora 
Leaves sub-sessile, unequally bilobed at base . . (3) M. amplexieaulis 
(1) M. longipes King, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. l.c. 124; Ann. 
Bot. Gard. Calc. l.c. 157, pi. 204. 
A small bushy tree or shrub 15 to 30 ft. tall, glabrous. Leaves 
membranous shining, oblong-oblanceolate acuminate, base cuneate; 
nerves 12 pairs, faint, 5*5 to 7 in. long, 175 to 275 in. wide; petioles 
*1 to '15 in. long. Flowers axillary solitary on slender pedicels, 
