96 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
most and innovations rusty-tomentose. Leaves coriaceous, alternate 
or sub-opposite, falcately recurved; elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate 
at apex, cuneately narrowed at base; both surfaces glabrous, yellow- 
ish when dry, upper shining ; 10—13 cm. long, 2°5—4 cm. broad ; 
midrib slender, main nerves 6—8 pairs, raised on both surfaces, at 
first straight then branching and joining in loops at some distance 
from the margin; reticulation sparse but prominent; petiole 
slender, 1:5—25 cm. long. Fruiting peduncles numerous, 7—10 cm. 
long, very strict, thickened upwards, as rigid and woody as the 
branchlets and thicker at the top than the pedicel is broad; pedicels 
4—6 mm. long, cylindric, black. Fruit smooth, ellipsoid, 15—18 
mm. long, 10—12 mm. in diam., dark blue-black, pruinose, with 
red pedicel. 
Matacca : Maingay K. D. 1261! 
A.? costalis, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. II. 72 and Syst. Laur. 185 ; 
Hook. f. in Fl. Br. Ind. V. 146 seems to be Iztsea robusta, Bl. 
ALSEODAPHNE LucIDA, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. II. 72 (1831). 
«* Branches stout, lenticellate. Leaves 20—30 cm. long, scattered, 
very coriaceous, obovate-oblong, acuminate, base obtuse ; shin- 
ing above, paler beneath; nerves 16—20 pairs, spreading, slender ; 
midrib prominent above ; reticulations beneath very faint ; petiole 
2-5—4 cm. long, terete, thickened and rugose at the base.’’ (Des- 
cription from Fl. Br. Ind.). Syst. Laur. 186; Meissn. in DC. Prodr. 
XV. i. 29; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. V. 147. Laurus ? lucida. Wall. 
Cat. 2590. 
StnGAPoRE: Wallich 2590! 
In the FI. Br. Ind. it is suggested that this is not a Laurineous plant, but 
it seems not unlike a Ivtsea. The chief characteristic of the leaves is that the 
main nerves are at first straight and parallel and curve close to the margin. 
8. NoTHAPH@BE, Blume. 
Evergreen trees. Leaves alternate, not subverticillate but more 
or less crowded towards the ends of the branchlets, penni-nerved. 
Flowers very small, hermaphrodite. in axillary or subterminal 
panicles, the cymules of the branches generally subumbellate. 
Perianth-tube very short, continuous with the pedicel ; lobes 6, un- 
equal, the 3 outer usually much smaller than the inner. Stamens 9 
fertile, with 4-celled ovate-oblong very small villous anthers and 
short filaments ; those of the lst row opposite the outer perianth- 
