160 cxxviii. LAURINB/E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Litscea. 



when dry with close impressed points, nerves 5-7 pair very slender and 

 oblique, umbels few in a cluster 3-4-fld. pedicel filiform. 



MALACCA, Griffith (Kew Dlstrib. 4311). 



Branchlets slender; bark brown, smooth. Leaves 1^-1 in. broad, nerves above 

 very obscure ; base very acute ; petiole -3- 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 0. Perianth-tube after flowering (when T ', 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. Zi. Blumii, Nees in Wall. PL As. Bar. 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. L. ferruginea, Blume Bijd. 561. Cylicodaphne 

 ferruginea, Meissn.in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 207. Actinodaphne Blumii, Nees 

 Syst. Laurin. 598. Tetranthera fulva 8. rigida in part, Meissn. I. c. 195. 

 Lepidadenia ferruginea, Miq. Fl. Ind. Sat. i. pt. 1, 935. 



MALACCA, Griffith, Maingay, &c. DISTRIB. Java. 



A tree; branches rather stout. Leaves very rarely subopposite, 2-3 in. diam. , 

 above smooth, usually yellow-green with faintly-impressed nerves arid recurved 

 margins, base acute or cuneate ; petiole stout, -1 in. Umbels (female) 3- 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 1st 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 | in. diam., edge of mouth acute. That 

 this is Litscea 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. The 

 species is omitted in Blume's revision of the Litsaeas, &c., in Mus. Bot. Lugd. 

 Bat. 



13. Zi. sessiliflora, Hook.f.-, branches stout and leaves beneath" and 

 inflorescence rusty-tomentose, leaves 8-12 in. opposite penninerved very 

 shortly petioled oblong-lanceolate acuminate rugose above, nerves 16-20 pair 

 very strong beneath with raised cross-nervnles, umbels axillary sessile 3-fld., 

 flowers sessile, perianth villous, fruit small globose seated on the persistent 

 6- lobed perianth. 



PENAKG- ; 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 in., very 

 stout. Umbels appressed to the axils, solitary or crowded, in. diam. ; bracts 4, 

 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 habit of L. Blumii, but a very different fruit and with rugose leaves. 



** Leaves alternate, glabrous beneath or nearly so. 



14. L. Wallichii, Hook.f.; quite glabrous, leaves alternate 4-18 in. 



