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H. N. Ridley: Botany of Gunong Tahan. 197
coriaceous, shining yellow above, paler and not shining beneath
(green in shady woods), 2 to 2 J inches long, J to i inch wide.
Male spikes 1^ inch long, J inch in diameter, cylindric, obtuse;
antheriferous scales ^ inch across the top, | inch long;
limb nearly orbicular, edges rough. Pollen-sacs few. Cone
globose, apex rounded, 2^ inches long, 2 inches through.
Scales i^ inch long, i inch wide, broadly obovate; the base
trilobed; the two side-lobes acute, incurved; the central lobe
oblong; limb narrow, hardly ^ inch wide, elevated in the
centre slightly. Seed elliptic, rounded at both ends, flattened,
^ inch long, ^ inch wide; wing large, broad, and rounded at
the tip, half an inch or more long.
On the Padang and in the woods near the Teku, and
along the ridge towards Skeat's Camp.
The biggest tree on the Padang, though barely 40 feet
tall, attaining a larger size in the damper woods, but not as
tall as the species on the Penang and Perak Hills. Where
exposed the branches and leaves are of a curious yellow colour
and very coriaceous, glaucous beneath, the edges reflexed.
It is most closely allied to A. regia, Warburg, of Batchian,
but the leaves are not lanceolate and acute as in that species.
The male cone and the antheriferous scales closely resemble
the cone of that species, but the scales of the female cone have
a much narrower limb and the base is usually distinctly
trilobed, the side-lobes being acute and curved in. The wing
of the seed is usually large and broad.
In previous papers I referred this species collected, first
by Robinson, to A. loranthifolia (rhomboidalis, Warburg) of
Penang Hill, but, on seeing the plant alive and procuring a
nearly ripe cone and male spikes, I find it cannot be classed
with that one. The male spikes are smaller than in any other
species known to me except A. regia, Warb.
*284. Dacrydium elatum, Br.; Ridl. op. cit. p. 333. On
the Padang in small woods. The trees are of no great size,
and it is less common than the next species.
285. Dacrydium Beccarii, Pari. A shrub or bush,
hardly a tree, very common on the Padang, and flowering and
fruiting when only 5 feet tall. In this plant the leaves on the
flowering shoots are shorter and thicker than those of the
barren stems, but not reduced to scales like those of D. elatum.
The male spikes were either dried or just commencing growth
at the time of our visit. They were \ inch long and rather
stout. The antheriferous scales, elongate, lanceolate, i inch
long. The fruit in the female trees in borne on the ends of
the branches, single or 2 or 3 together, and hardly longer than
the shortened leaves which surround them. The ovules are
inch long, obovoid, shortly acute at the tip, deep black-purple,
shining at the tip.
Distribution. Borneo, Mt. Ophir.
286. Dacrydium falciforme, Pilg- Common in the
woods of the Padang, but the trees quite small. I saw none