114 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
the branchlets between the upper verticils and supported by orbi- 
cular concave deciduous bracts; clusters bearing a number of shortly 
peduncled involucres each of 4 orbicular concave deciduous bracts 
and enclosing an umbellule of 5 flowers, the centre one longer 
peduncled (5 mm.) than the 4 outer (2 mm.); ¢@ and 2 flowers 
similar with short perianth-tubes and 6 subequal concave perianth- 
lobes, pubescent without, glabrous within, 5-nerved and prominently 
gland-dotted at length recurved. Stamens of ¢& flowers in 3 rows, 
those of the 2 outer rows eglandular, those of the inner row with a 
pair of long sessile glabrous glands; anthers oblong 1:5—2 mm. 
long, glabrous; filaments as long as anthers with a thick tuft of 
golden-tawny unicellular hairs. Staminodes of 9 flowers oblong or 
lanceolate, glabrous, the inner row biglandular. Ovary short, villous, 
that of & flowers rudimentary or 0, that of 2 flowers ovoid; style 
thick, curved; stigma peltate, large, crenately 3—4lobed. Fruit 
globose, orange when ripe, smooth, shining, 20—25 mm. in diam. 
seated on the enlarged thickened rugose perianth which is cup-shaped 
when young, at length disciform, 10—15 mm. in diam.; pericarp 
thick, fleshy, shining. Litsea macrophylla, Kurz For. Fl. II. 305 
not of Blume. Myristica sesquipedalis, Wall. Cat. 6809. 
PENANG: Wallich 6809!; at Waterfall and Pulau Boetong, 
Curtis 2304!, 2473!. PERak: at Maxwell’s Hill, 4000 it., Curtis 
2053!; Scortechint 209!; at Relan Tujor, Wray 4225!; Goping, 
Larut, etc., up to 1000 ft., King’s Collector 4399!, 5008!, 5147!, 
6435!, 7202!.—Distrip. Tenasserim, at Mergui, Griffith 4327! 
2. ACTINODAPHNE Matncayi, Hook. f. in Fl. Br. Ind. V. 151 
(1886). A large tree reaching 15 to 20 m. or more in height and a 
considerable diameter of stem; branchlets very stout, dark tawny- 
pubescent, the uppermost and innovations densely villous with 
brown hairs, verticil-nodes marked by the prominent scars of fallen 
leaves and leaf-bud scales; terminal branch-buds oblong with 
imbricate scales, the outer ones leaf-like reaching 1 to 2 cm. in length 
and densely tawny-pubescent. Leaves coriaceous, in whorls of about 
6 to 10; oblanceolate or elliptic-oblong or oblong-obovate, shortly 
acuminate at apex, cuneate or attenuate at base; upper surface 
shining, glabrous except the nerves, lower rusty-tomentose especially 
on the nerves, younger ones subglaucous between them; 15 to 40 
em. long, 5—12 cm. broad; midrib stout, slightly raised, flattened 
and tomentose above, much raised beneath; main nerves 10 to 20 
pairs at about 40° to 50° with the midrib, curved upwards to the 
