134 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
wards the ends of the branchlets; oblanceolate, acuminate usually 
abruptly at apex, long attenuate at base; upper surface dark brown 
and dull when dry, glabrous except the puberulous midrib and main 
nerves, areolate reticulate, lower sparsely tomentose purplish-red 
when dry ; 10—30 cm. long, 4—10 cm. broad ; midrib rather slender, 
impressed above; main nerves 10—14 pairs impressed above, start- 
ing at about 70° with the midrib and at once curving upwards to 
and along the margin; transverse nervules rather irregular and 
branched, not very prominent, enclosing -the areolate reticulation ; 
petiole rather slender from a thickened base, channelled above, 
15—3°5 cm. long. Flowers in umbellules on slender tomentose 
peduncles 15 mm. long (<3) several together on hard woody tubercles 
with rugosely scarred cylindric branches up to 18 mm. long on the 
tree-trunk; the umbellules when open reaching 15 mm. indiam. (<7), 
or 10 mm.( 2); involucral bracts 4—5, orbicular, concave, tomentose 
without, glabrous within; flowers in each umbellule 6—7, subsessile ; 
perianth-lobes 6, oblong or spathulate, obtuse, sparsely villous, 5—7 
mm. long, much gland-dotted. Stamens of 3 flowers variable in 
number, normally 9, but often 10, those of the outer rows up to 
9 mm. long with large 3 mm. long oblong anthers and slender 
slightly villous filaments, sometimes with 1 or 2 small glands at the 
base, those of the inner row shorter and with a pair of reniform and 
usually emarginate shortly stipitate glands at the base itself; anther- 
cells very large, elliptic-oblong, the upper introrse, the lower 
lateral; rudimentary ovary ovoid; style thick; stigma spreading, 
bifid. Staminodes of 2 flowers variable in number, normally 9 but 
often up to 12, those of the outer rows linear subulate, slender, 
slightly villous, 3 mm. long, sometimes with glands at their bases ; 
those of the inner rows triangular-acuminate with 2 large basal 
glands, 1 mm. long. Ovary ovoid, glabrous; style thick, curved ; 
stigma large, peltate, irregularly lobed. Fruct (immature) ovoid, 
truncate at apex, apiculate, half-enclosed in the hemispheric rough 
persistent perianth-tube 6 mm. long and 10 mm. in diam. at the 
mouth which is entire or lobed and bears remains of the perianth- 
lobes and staminodes; enlarged pedicel very stout, short; pericarp 
smooth. 
JoHORE: at Tanyong Bunga, Ridley 6458!, near Castlewood, 
Ridley 9163!, at the Mount Austen, Ridley 11995!, at Seduah, Ridley 
13479! 
This species comes rather near to L. caulifiora, Stapf in Trans. Linn. Soc. 
2nd Ser. IV. 219 collected by Haviland on Mt. Kinabalu in Borneo at 5000 ft., 
