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hairs, the lower surface white, densely fomentose, the pubescent 

 midrib, nerves, and reticulations brownish, the base usually 

 rounded, the apex shortly and sharply acuminate ; lateral nerves 

 about 12 on each side of the midrib, di&tinct, the petioles about 

 1.5 cm long; stipules lanceolate, acuminate, about 1 cm long. 

 Inflorescences fascicled, axillary and from the axils of fallen 

 leaves, the branches up to 2 cm long, simple, or bearing 2 or 3 

 heads, somewhat pubescent, the heads globose, about 5 mm in 

 diameter. Achenes crowded, sessile, somewhat hispid, oblong- 

 ovoid, narrowed upward, about 1.5 mm long. 



Sumatra, East Coast, Asahan, in mountain jungle at Linaboen, 

 June 30, 1910, Bartlett & La Rue 213, with the local name 

 nderasi. 



This species is readily distinguished from all previously de- 

 scribed forms of the genus by its leaves being white beneath in 

 striking contrast to the dark-olivaceous upper surface; 



OLACACEAE 



ERYTHROPALUM Blume 

 ERYTHROPALUM SCANDENS Blume Bijdr. (1826) 921. 



Karoland, Lau Bakal, Bartlett & La Rue 170, June 20, 1918. 

 India to Java and the Philippines. 



LAURACEAE 



LITSEA Lamarck 

 LITSEA UMBELLATA (Lour.) comb. nov. 



Hexanthus umbellatiis Lour. Fl. Cochinch. (1790) 196. 

 Litsea hexantha Juss. in Ann. Mus. Paris 6 (1805) 212. 

 Litsea amara Blume Bijdr. (1825) 563. 



Karoland, Kampong Lingga, Bartlett & La Rue 115, June 5, 

 1918. 



Loureiro's type is preserved in the herbarium of the British 

 Museum, where it was examined by R. Brown, who thought it 

 to represent the Australian species described by him as Tetran- 

 thera ferruginea. It is clear that Brown was in error in making 

 this reduction, for Loureiro's species is apparently identical with 

 the widely distributed Malayan one currently known as Litsea 

 amara Blume, of which I have numerous specimens from Indo- 

 China, the Malay Peninsula, and Java. The Australian species 

 currently known as Litsea ferruginea (R. Br.) Benth. & Hook, 

 f. needs a new name as the specific name is invalidated in Litsea 

 by L. furruginea Blume; it should be known as Litsea leefeana 

 (F. Muell.) (Cylicodaphne leefeana F. Muell.). 



