132 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
those of inner rows similar with long-stalked clavate glands asin 3. 
Ovary ovoid, glabrous; style long, thick; stigma peltate, often 
lobed. Fruit small, 7—10 mm. in diameter, globose, seated on the 
very slightly enlarged flattened tube of the perianth, about 2 mm. 
broad; pericarp thin, black or purple; cotyledons hemispherical. 
Trimen Fl. Ceyl. III. 449; Cooke Bomb. Fl. II. 539; Koord. & 
Val. Bijdr. X. 134. L. sebifera, Pers. Syn. II. 4 (1807); Hook. f. Fl. 
Br. Ind. V. 157; Prain Beng. Plants 902; Brandis Ind. Trees 536. L. 
multifora, Bl. Bijdr. II. 564 (1825). L. glabraria and levis, Juss. in 
Ann. Mus. VI. 212. LZ. geminata, Bl. Bijdr. 564. L. tetranthera and 
platyphylla, Pers.l.c. Tetranthera laurifolia, Blame Mus. Bot. Lugd.- 
Bat. I. 372: Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. IT. 66, III. 30; Meissn. in 
DC. Prodr. XV. 1. 178; Roxb. Fl. Ind. III. 823; Bot. Reg. t. 893; 
Wall. Cat. 2550 C. and 2555 A.D.; Brandis For. Fl. 379; Kurz For. 
Fl. II. 297; Benth. Fl. Austral. V. 305. 7. Roxburghii, Nees l.c. 65. 
and 30 and Syst. 515. '. apetala, Roxb. Cor. Pl. II. 25. t. 147 and 
Fl. Ind. IIT. 819; Gaertn. f. Fruct. III. 226. t. 222; Wall. Cat. 2554 
B. and C. 7. litoralis, Bl. 1.c. 375. TZ. glabraria, levis and geminata, 
Nees Syst. Laur. |.c. 7’. tomentosa, Nees in Wall. I.c. 65 and Syst. 
Laur. 511. Glabraria tersa, Linn. Mant. 276; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 941; 
G. litoralis, Mig. l.c. 943. Tomex tetranthera and sebifera, Willd. Sp. 
Pl. Il. 839, 840. Sebifera glutinosa, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. II. 783. 
Laurus involucrata, Koenig in Retz. Obs. VI. 27. 
Malay Peninsula, fide Hook. f. in Fl. Br. Ind. ; Koord. & Val., 
etc.—Distris. India, Burma, Ceylon, Andaman Islands, Malay 
Islands, China, Australia. 
There are no specimens of this species from our area in the Kew or Calcutta. 
or Singapore Herbaria; but it seems best to include the description. I have 
been in doubt whether I should not follow Merrill and call it Z. tersa, Merrill, in 
Philipp. Journ. of Se. I. 57 (1906); but after much consideration have pre- 
ferred to leave it under the better known name adopted by such authorities. 
as Trimen, Cooke and Koorders & Valeton. 
2. Litrsza TomMENTOoSA, Blume Bijdr. 566 (1825). A tree reach- 
ing 15—20 m. in height and a diameter of bole of 45 to 60 cm.; 
branchlets stout, rough, puberulous, uppermost and innovations. 
tawny-pubescent ; buds oblong. Leaves membranous when young, 
chartaceous when older, obovate or oblong-obovate, abruptly short- 
acuminate at apex, cuneate at base; upper surface shining, puberu- 
lous when young, afterwards glabrous except on the midrib and 
main nerves, lower surface minutely grey-tawny-pubescent ; 12—20 
cm. long, 4—10 cm. broad; midrib stout, broad, pubescent ; main 
