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MR. H. N. RIDLEY ON THE PLANTS 
MYRISTICACEJE. 
MynisTICA CaxTLEYL, Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind, v. 110. 
A large-leaved, nearly glabrous form. 
Distrib. Malay Peninsula. 
LAURACE.E. 
LITSEA CINERASCENS, /?idl., n. sp. 
Arbor, cortice ramulorum pallide griseo. Folia lanceolata, acuminata, 
basibus attenuatis obtusis, alterna vel subopposita, tenuiter subcoriacea, 
superne glabra, subtus cinerea, 21 ст, longa, 5-6 em. lata, costa nervisque 
ll-jugatis minute rufo-tomentosis, petiolis crassiusculis tomentosis 5 mm. 
longis. Flores feminei in pedunculis brevissimis, 2 mm. longis, bracteis 
ovatis lanceolatis tomentosis minimis. Pedunculi umbellarum | tomentosi, 
4-5 mm. longi. Bractee iavoluerales 4, ovate, acute, extus sericem. 
Umbellule 3 in pedunculis crassiusculis sericeis, З mm. longæ. Sepala 6, 
oblonga, obtusa, extus sericea. Staménodia exteriora 6, filamentis longius- 
culis sericeis, antheris abortivis, interiora 3-breviora, exterioribus ad bases 
adnata, spathulata, glandulis reniformibus 2 ad basin sessilibus. Ovarium 
parvum, ovoideum, glabrum. Stylus filiformis, stigmate peltato-discoideo 
sublobato. Flores masculi et fructus non visi. 
Distrib. Also met with at Telom, Pahang (Zéidley, 13181). 
Litsea cinerascens seems nearest to Litsea amara, Blume, but is much more 
glabrous than any form of this species, with fewer flowers in the umbels and 
larger leaves. Gamble, in the * Materials for a Flora of the Malay Peninsula,’ 
gives the Telom plant under the variety attenuata of L. amara, but it is very 
different from the other plants included under that variety, and should have 
at least a varietal name. 
THYMEL/EACEJE. 
DAPHNE PENDULA, Sm. Ze. Ined. ii. ЗА, t. 84. 
Distrib, This pretty shrub is not rare in the hill woods of the Malay 
Peninsula, Burma and Malaya. 
BALANOPHORACEZE. 
DALANOPHORA TRUNCATA, Midi., n. sp. 
Rhizoma arcte pustulosum. Folia ad basin pedunculi 3, ovato-oblonga, 
apicibus rotundatis vel emarginatis, 5-15 mm. longa, 9-10 mm. lata, 
summa 2, oblonga, majora, truncata, 2 em. longa, 1 em. lata. Peduneulus 
masculus 7 em. longus, basi ad 3 em. nudus, 3 mm. crassus. Flores in spica 
dissiti, circiter 30, sessiles. Alabastra transversim. oblonga. Sepala 2, 
