Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 133 
nerves 12—15 pairs, straight at first afterwards curved near the 
margin; transverse nervules prominent in old leaves, reticulation 
minutely netted; petiole 2—3 cm. long, stout, tawny-pubescent. 
Flowers in umbellules, in dense axillary or lateral bracteate clusters 
on a very short stout common peduncle about 5 mm. long; bracts 
oblong, densely grey-pubescent without ; umbellule-peduncles thick, 
grey-pubescent, 5 mm. long; involucral bracts 4, orbicular, concave, 
grey-pubescent without, glabrous within, about -4 mm. in diam.; 
flowers in umbellule 5, on short pedicels 2 mm. long; perianth-lobes 
small, incomplete, ovate-acute or sublinear, sometimes missing. 
Stamens of 3 flowers ‘‘20—24 slightly longer than the perianth 
lobes, with villous filaments; glands about 8—12, obconic, stipitate, 
hidden in the villous hairs of the tube; rudimentary ovary small 
glabrous ; stigma 0.” Staminodes of @ flowers many (up to 30) 
densely imbedded in stiff tawny hairs; those of outer rows spathu- 
late on slender villous filaments, those of inner rows with a pair of 
stalked clavate glands inserted at the bases of the filaments. Ovary 
ovoid ; style thick ; stigma large, peltate, often lobed. Fruit ‘* ellip- 
soid, obtuse, about 3 cm. long, 1-5—2-5 cm. broad, seated on the 
cupular enlarged perianth-tube 2 cm. broad 3 mm. high, the margin 
irrecularly 9—12-toothed or subentire; pedicel obconic, 1°5—2°5 cm. 
long, often much incurved.’’ Koord. & Val. Bijdr. X. 138. 
Tetranthera vestita, Nees Syst. Laur. 551; Blume Mus. Bot. Lugd.- 
Bat. I. 372; Meissn. in DC. Prodr. XV. i. 178. Glabraria vesiiia, 
Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. I. 941. Polyadenia grandis, Hassk. Cat. Bog. 
566, non Nees. 
PENANG: at West Hill, 75 m. alt., Curtis 1182!; in dense jungle 
at Larut 90—150 m. alt., King’s Collector 5886!—Distrip. Java. 
The leaves of Curtis specimens are thicker and stouter than those of 
Kunstler, but they are older; and the inflorescence (2 in both) is the same. 
This is apparently the oldest use of the specific name tomentosa: the S. Indian 
L. tomentosa, Wall. Cat. 2550 will have to be called LZ. apetala. The descrip- 
tions of the stamens ( ¢ ) and fruit are taken from Koorders and Valeton. 
The Javan specimen in Herb. Kew ( 2 ) has the leaves rather broader and 
more obovate than is the case with the Peninsular ones; but in other respects 
it agrees, and I see no reason to doubt the identification. 
3. LITSEA JOHORENSIS, Gamble in Kew Bull. 315 (1910). A 
small evergreen tree with smooth white bark; branchlets grey, rather 
slender, the uppermost densely red-brown-tomentose as are the 
lanceolate buds, the petioles and undersurface of the leaves and the 
inflorescence, Leaves coriaceous, alternate, somewhat crowded to- 
