138 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
ovary 0 or very small with small capitate stigma. Staminodes of @ 
flowers and fruit not known. 
PERAK: at Relan Tujor, Wray 2233 !. 
Tn leaf this species resembles ZL. grandis but differs in the much longer 
tacemes, the nearly sessile umbellules, the broader leaf-midrib and other 
points. 
7. Lirsza Firma, Hook. f. in Fl. Br. Ind. V. 162 (1886). A 
very large tree, reaching a height of 30—40 m. and a diameter of , 1 
metre or more ; branchlets moderately stout, greyish- brown, the upper- 
most and innovations minutely rusty puberulous ; buds lanceolate, 
not perulate. Leaves subcoriaceous, alternate; oblong-lanceolate 
or oblanceolate, obtuse or acute, rarely acuminate at apex, cuneate 
often unequally at base ; upper surface dull, glabrous, reddish-brown, 
lower minutely reddish or greyish rusty-puberulous, at length glab- 
rous; 8—18 cm. long, 3—5 cm. broad; midrib moderately stout, 
somewhat channelled on the upper surface, much raised on the 
lower ; main nerves 10—15 pairs, rather irregular, curving upwards 
to and along the margin, more or less impressed above; transverse 
nervules many and conspicuous on the under surface, often branched 
or irregular; reticulation areolately pitted on the upper surface 
(under the lens); petiole 1—2 cm. long, rather slender. Flowers in 
peduncled (5—7 mm.) umbellules in rusty-pubescent axillary or 
lateral umbelliform racemes of about 5—6; umbellules in ¢ about 
7 mm. in diameter with 4—6 concave orbicular involucral bracts ; 
flowers in umbellule 5—6, shortly pedicelled ; perianth-tube in ¢ 
very short; lobes oblong, tawny-villous, 2—3 mm. long, subacute, 
those of 2 slightly smaller. Stamens in 3 flowers 9, those of the 
2 outer rows eglandular 6—8 mm. long, with long filiform sparsely 
hispid filaments and oblong anthers, those of the inner row similar 
or rather shorter with smaller anthers and a pair of reniform stipi- 
tate glands at the bases of the filaments; lower anther-celis lateral, 
upper large and introrse in the outer rows, minute or even wanting 
in the inner row; rudimentary ovary 0. Staminodes of 2 flowers 
linear, subulate, with hispid filaments 2—3 mm. long, the inner three 
with a pair of reniform stipitate glands at the base. Ovary not seen. 
Fruit ovoid-oblong, truncate at apex, 1O—12 mm. long, 8 mm. broad, 
seated on the shallow obconic enlarged perianth-tube 3 mm. high, 
6—7 mm. in diameter; enlarged pedicel stout, 5 mm. long; 
pericarp pink when ripe, smooth. Tetranthera firma, Blume Mus. 
