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more than 20 ft. high. The species does not seem to occur 

 m Selangor. 



I would add that the cymes are 2-2*5 in. long. The 

 corolla lobes strongly decurved and the whole flower very 

 fragrant. In A. officinalis the calyx lobes are spreading 

 but not recurved, the filaments much longer than the anthers 

 and the style long and slender. The flowers have an un- 

 nleasant smell. 



LAURACEAE. 



71. Litsea glabrifolia, sp. nov. 



A glabrous tree. Leaves alternate, thinly coriaceous 

 glaucescent beneath, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, shortly 

 narrowed at the broad base, and blunt at tip, nerves 10 pairs, 

 elevate beneath, 7-8 in. long, 3 in. wide, petiole -5 in. long. 

 Umbellules in short stout racemes, -1 in.- -2 in. long, 

 axillary. Peduncles silky -2 in. long. Involucre of 4 round 

 boat-shaped bracts, silky • 15 in. long. Flowers about 7, 

 pedicelled .-25 in. long and as wide, silky, lobes linear, 

 oblong as long as the pedicels. Stamens 12, filaments long, 

 slender, hairy, innermost three with oblong stipitate glands. 

 Pistillode cylindric with a 2 or 3-lobed recurved stigma. 



Pahang : Gunong Senyum (Evans). 



This has somewhat the habit of L. polyantha but the 

 leaves are rather thinner and quite glabrous, the umbels 

 much larger and there is a distinct pistillode. I have only 

 seen the male plant. 



72. Litsea acrantha, sp. nov. 



Branches and petioles shortly rough, setose hairy. 

 Leaves alternate coriaceous, lanceolate acuminate, base 

 narrow, glabrous except the midrib and nerves beneath 

 covered with pale appressed bristles, nerves 7 pairs elevate 

 beneath ; nervules horizontal parallel, general surface 

 areolate 3-3-5 in. long, 1-5 in. wide ; petiole "25 in. long. 

 Umbels one or more pseudolerminal sessile on a peduncle, 

 silky -25 in. long, -3 in. across when expanded. Involucral 

 bracts 4, ovate, silky, rather thin. Flowers about 4, pedicels 

 silky, lobes 3, ovate round spathulate, 3 inner linear oblong, 

 silky. Stamens 7, filaments slender, glabrous with no 

 glands. Anther oblong 4-celled. Pistillode small conic. 

 Style long but shorter than the perianth with three recurved 

 stigmas. 



Kedah-Perak boundary: Gunong Bintang (nat. coll. 

 F.M.S. Mus.). 



This has somewhat the appearance of an Actinodaphne^ 

 but the leaves are not whorled, the stamens in two flowers 

 examined were 7 in number. It is quite unlike any Litsea 

 known to me in the falsely terminal flowers. 



