116 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
3. ACTINODAPHNE GLOMERATA, Nees Syst. Laur. 597 (1836). 
A spreading tree reaching 10 to 12 m. in height and 30 to 45 cm. in 
diam. of stem; branchlets fairly stout, striate, shortly rusty-puber- 
ulous, ultimately glabrescent; verticil-nodes scarred; innovations 
densely silky pubescent ; terminal branch-buds with the outer scales 
leaf-like 2—3 cm. long and the inner ones persistent at intervals on 
the internodes very silky and about 15 mm. long. Leaves chartace- 
ous, in whorls of 4 to 7; obovate, abruptly acuminate at apex, acute 
or cuneate at base; upper surface glabrous except on the nerves, 
scarcely shining, lower pale grey to glaucous, minutely velvety 
puberulous, rusty-pubescent on the nerves; 10—30 cm. long, 6—12 
em. broad; midrib moderately stout, rusty pubescent, slightly raised 
on the upper, more so on the lower surface; main nerves 8 to 12 
pairs at about 50° with the midrib, at first straight, then curved to 
and along the margin, raised on both surfaces; transverse nervules 
many, subparallel, prominent beneath, other reticulations scarcely 
visible; petiole pubescent, 2—2°5 cm. long. Flowers yellowish, in 
clusters of rather long-pedunculate rusty-pubescent cymes on the 
branchlets between the upper verticils or axillary at those verticils 
supported by orbicular concave deciduous bracts; cyme-peduncles 
slender, up to 2 cm. long, bearing umbellules of 5 flowers or less, 
supported by an involucre of 4 boat-shaped ovate bracts up to 1 cm. 
long; pedicels slender, those of the central flower longest at first, 
afterwards all subequal, 5 mm. long; perianth-tube very small or 
none; lobes ovate, glabrous within, 3—4 mm. long, 3—5-nerved. 
Stamens of ¢& flowers in 3 rows, those of the Ist and 2nd rows 
eglandular, 4mm. long, with oblong obtuse anthers and slender 
filaments bearing a tuft of tawny hairs at the base; those of 
the 3rd row as long but with more rounded anthers, and the fila- 
ments bearing tufts of tawny hairs and halfway from the base two 
large glabrous ovoid glands; pistil of 9 flowers none. Staminodes 
of 9° flowers, ovary, style and stigma not seen. Fruit depressed- 
globose, up to 12 mm. in breadth and 10 mm. high, shortly apiculate, 
in compound umbels with thickened peduncles, seated on the 
flattened disciform enlarged perianth not lobed at the margins and 
about 6 mm. in diam. ; pericarp thick, smooth, apparently yellow; 
cotyledons hemispheric. Blume in Mus. Bot. Lugd-Bat. I. 3438; 
Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I. i. 968; Meissn. in DC. Prodr. XV. i. 215; 
Koord. & Val. Bijdr. X. 114. Litsea giomerata, Bl. Bijdr. 566; 
Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. II. 65. Laurus glomerata, Bl. Cat. Hort. 
Buit. 66. 
