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but the venation of the leaves is different and the umbellules are much larger. 
The specimens of the ¢ flowers and young fruit were found separate with 
Ridley’s No. 6458 which is otherwise o&; they must have been collected on a 
different tree. 
4. LiITSEA TRUNCIFLORA, Gamble in Kew Bull. 316 (1910). .A 
handsome evergreen tree reaching 18 m. in height and 30—40 cm. in 
diam. of stem; bark of stem greyish-brown, smooth; branchlets 
rather stout, pale brown, the uppermost and lanceolate buds and 
the petioles of the leaves dark brown rusty-tomentose. Leaves 
chartaceous, alternate; obovate or oblanceolate, rounded or emargi- 
nate at apex,"long-cuneate-attenuate at base ; upper surface shining, 
glabrous except the villous midrib, areolate-reticulate, lower blue- 
green when fresh, pale grey-brown when dry, softly rusty-tomentose 
especially on the nerves; margin recurved; 28—56 cm. long, 11—22 
em. broad; midrib very stout, impressed above, much raised 
beneath ; main nerves 16—22 pairs, impressed above, prominent 
beneath, often branched and with secondary nerves between, start- 
ing usually at from 70°—80° or sometimes at right angles to the 
midrib, at first straight but curving near the margin to meet in 
irregular loops; transverse nervuies distant, irregular, often branched, 
prominent, enclosing the areolate reticulation which is best seen 
on the upper surface; petiole very stout, flattened above, 1°5—2°5 
em. long. Flowers in umbellules on rather slender pubescent pe- 
duncles 10—15 mm. long (¢) 7—8 mm. (2) many together on hard 
thick woody tubercles on the tree-trunk, the clusters about 5 cm. in 
diam. ; umbellules (¢) 10—12 mm. in diam. when open; involucral 
bracts 4, orbicular, concave, minutely puberulous without, glabrous 
within; flowers in each umbellule 4—5, sessile; perianth-lobes 6, 
very variable, mostly linear-oblong, toothed at the apex, sparsely 
villous, gland-dotted, 5—6 mm. long. Stamens of 3 flowers variable 
in number, usually 9 or 12; those of the outer rows 7—8 mm. long 
with oblong anthers and very slender villous filaments, sometimes 
with glands at the base; those of the inner rows shorter and with a 
pair of rounded often emarginate very shortly stipitate glands close 
to the base; anther-cells very large, elliptic, upper all introrse, 
lower lateral; rudimentary ovary ovoid ; style slender, much curved, 
glabrous; stigma large, peltate, bifid. Staminodes of @ flowers 
apparently all with basal glands, outer linear-clavate, villous, 3 mm. 
long, inner shorter, the glands thick. Ovary ovoid ; style slender, 
straight; stigma peltate. Fruit (very unripe) depressed globular, 
enclosed almost completely in the turbinate enlarged perianth-tube 
