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11. AcTINODAPHNE FRAGILIS, Gamble in Kew Bull. 315 (1910). 
A tree reaching 12—18 m. in height and up to 60 cm. in diam. of 
stem; branchlets rather slender, dark greyish-brown, with longitudi- 
nal cracks, glabrous, the ultimate ones minutely puberulous. Leaves 
coriaceous, in whorls of 2—4; ovate or elliptic-ovate, bluntly-acute 
at apex, acute at base; glabrous on both surfaces, the upper pale 
brown when dry, the lower white-glaucous; 5—12 cm. long, 2—5 cm. 
broad; midrib slender, raised on both surfaces; main nerves 5—6 
pairs, the lowest pair subopposite, curving to the margin and then 
joining in loops; transverse nervules and areolate reticulation 
obscure; petiole slender, 1—2 cm. long, channelled. Flowers in 
umbellules in slender rusty-puberulous pedunculate umbels up to 
1 em. long, lateral on the internodes between the leaves of the upper- 
most branchlets, the joints easily breaking, glabrous in fruit; in- 
volucral bracts very early deciduous; pedicels slender, 2 mm. long ; 
perianth-tube short, with a ring of golden-villous hairs at the mouth 
within ; lobes ovate, ciliate, glabrous within, 1 mm.long. Stamens of 
g flowers not known. Staminodes of 2 flowers very small, clavate, 
the filaments villous at base, those of the 3rd row with a pair of orbi- 
cular glabrous glands. Ovary globose; style slender; stigma large, 
capitate. Fruit an ovoid drupe nearly 1 cm. long, 7—8 mm. in 
diam., seated on the patelliform enlarged perianth-tube 5—6 mm. in 
diam., its margin entire; pericarp smooth, shining; enlarged pedicel 
7 mm. long. 
PERAK: in open jungle on tops of hills, Ulu Bubong, 180—280 
m. alt., King’s Collector 10743!, 10904! 
13. Litsza, Lamk. 
Evergreen or rarely deciduous trees or shrubs ; leaf-buds usually 
without scales. Leaves alternate or sometimes opposite or sub- 
opposite, penni-nerved. Flowers dicecious, in sessile or more usually 
pedunculate umbellules of several flowers, varying from 2 to 15 but 
usually 4 to 6, supported by 4 to 6 or rarely more involucral bracts, 
the outer ones at any rate orbicular concave; umbellules in axillary 
or lateral (i.e. above leaf-scales or on branches or on the trunk) 
racemes varying from under | cm. long to about 20 cm., the raceme 
bracts very caducous; flower-pedicels short, sometimes 0; perianth- 
tube in ¢ flowers 0 or very small, in 2 flowers funnel-shaped, lobes 
normally 6 often more sometimes wanting in whole or part, equal or 
