160 CXXVIII. LAURINEE. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Litsea. 
when dry with close impressed points, nerves 5-7 pair very slender and 
oblique, umbels few in a cluster 3-4-fld. pedicel filiform. 
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MALACCA, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 4311). J 
Branchlets slender ; bark brown, smooth. Leaves li-14 in. broad, nerves above 
very obscure; base very acute; petiole }-+ in. Umbels (male) about } in. when 
expanded; pedicels }-} in.; bracts 4, minutely puberulous, as are the sessile flowers. 
Sepals 4-6, spathulate, membranous, ciliate. Stamens 10, filaments slender, gla- 
brous; anthers short. Ovary O. Perianth-tube after flowering (when jl in. long) 
clavate, truncate, with a contracted mouth.—A very distinct plant, of which more 
specimens are much wanted. The leaves are attacked by a species of fungus like 
that of L. chartacea. The pedicels of the umbels do not seem to thicken after 
flowering, but they are too young to judge from. 
12. L. Blumii, Nees in Wall. Pi. As. Rar. ii. 65; branches stout 
and leaves beneath and umbels rusty-tomentose, leaves opposite 6-12 in. pen- 
ninerved rigidly coriaceous linear-oblong obtuse or acute smooth above 
obscurely reticulate beneath with 8-15 pair of very strong arched nerves, 
umbels many clustered very shortly pedicelled 6-8 fld., fruit ellipsoid half 
sunk in the large hemispheric truncate quite entire warted very shortly 
pedicelled perianth-tube. LL. ferruginea, Blume Bijd. 501. Cylicodaphne 
ferruginea, Meissn.in DC. Prodr. xv. 1.207. Actinodaphne Blumu, Nees 
Syst. Laurin. 598. Tetranthera fulva 8. rigida in part, Meissn. l. c. 195. 
Lepidadenia ferruginea, Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 1, 935. 
Maracoa, Griffith, Maingay, &e.— DISTRIB. Java. . 
A tree ; branches rather stout. Leaves very rarely subopposite, 2-34 in. diam., 
above smooth, usually yellow-green with faintly-impressed nerves and recurve 
margins, base acute or cuneate; petiole stout, À-l in. Umbels (female) } in. diam. 
when expanded; bracts 4, coriaceous; flowers small, tomentose. Sepals oblong, 
densely silky-tomentose. Stamens (in sketch in Wight's Herb. from Griffith's 
specimens) 12, all imperfect, hairy, of Ist and 2nd row hairy, 2-glandular 
with the anthers produced into a ligula. Ovary with a slender erect style and lobed 
stigma. . Fruit 1 in. long ; cup of perianth 2 in. diam., edge of mouth acute.— That 
this is Litsea ferruginea of Blume is nearly certain from comparison with a named 
specimen from Blume in the Hookerian Herbarium. Meissner describes the fruit 
as globose and the perianth-tube as flat with a torn margin, characters foreign 
both to Miquel's description of the fruit, and to that of the Malaccan plant. 
Bat. 
13. E. sessiliflora, Hook. f. ; branches stout and leaves beneath and 
inflorescence rusty-tomentose, leaves 8-12 in. opposite penninerved very Pi 
shortly petioled oblong-lanceolate acuminate rugose above, nerves 16-20 pair 
very strong beneath with raised cross-nervules, umbels axillary sessile 3-fid., 
flowers sessile, perianth villous, fruit small globose seated on the persistent 
6-lobed perianth. 
PENANG ; on Government Hill, Maingay. 
A tree, 10 feet high (Maingay); branchlets as thick as a goose-quill, densely 
tomentose. Leaves bifarious, coriaceous, rusty-brown, above glabrous except the 
tomentose midrib with deeply sunk nerves, beneath red brown ; petiole j in» Very 
stout.  Umbeis appressed to the axils, solitary or crowded, 4 in. diam.; tacto , 
scarious, villous. Sepals subequal, obtuse, Stamens 9, shorter than the perianth ’ 
filaments short, villous, 3 inner 2-glandular ; anthers short. Ovary and style glabrous. 
Fruit, young size of a pea, seated on the stellate perianth.—A very remarkable species, 
with the babit of Z.. Blumii, but a very different fruit and with rugose leaves. 
** Leaves alternate, glabrous beneath or nearly so. 
14. x. Wallichii, Hook. f., quite glabrous, leaves alternate 4-18 in. 
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