Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 139 
Bot. Lugd.-Bat. I. 381; Meissn. in DC. Prodr. XV. 1. 190; Miq. 
Fl. Ind. Bat. I. 950. 
Perak: hills near Larut at 120—180 m. alt., King’s Collector 
6772!, 7931!. Matacca: Maingay K. D. 1271!; Kofar Ali 4!. 
Smneapore : at Bukit Timah, Ridley 6453!, at Chauchukang 6820 !— 
Distris. Sumatra, at Bigin Telok, 150 m. alt., Forbes 3239!; 
Borneo, Korthals; Celebes. 
Ridley’s specimens have the leaves more rusty-puberulous and the young 
fruit cupules nearly globose with small orifice, but the orifice widens later on 
to a shallow cup; and I see no reason to doubt their identity. 
8. Lirsza cGRacttis, Gamble in Kew Bull. (1910). A small 
tree; branchlets very slender, densely tawny-pubescent, innovations 
silky. Leaves membranous, alternate; oblong-lanceolate, acumi- 
nate at apex, attenuately acute at base; upper surface shining, 
glabrous except on the midrib ; lower sparsely villous, closely so on 
the midrib and main nerves; 8—14 cm. long, 2—4 cm. broad; mid- 
rib slender, slightly impressed above ; main nerves 8—10 pairs, start- 
ing at about 70° with the midrib and curving at once upwards to 
and along the margin and breaking up in small diminishing loops ; 
transverse nervules irregular, branched; reticulation obscure ; 
petiole slender, 4—5 mm. long. Flowers in small pale brown um- 
bellules on very slender short (:3 to -4 mm.) peduncles, 2—3 together 
in the axils of upper leaves; umbellules of ¢ 4 mm. in diam. in 
flower; involucral bracts 4, straw-coloured, membranous, villous 
without, glabrous within, ovate, concave; flowers in each umbellule 
3, pedicels minute; perianth-lobes very thin, obovate, villous 
outside, gland-dotted, 1—1°5 mm. long in @, under 1 mm. in Q. 
Stamens of & flowers 9, exsert, those of the outer rows 6, nearly 
2 mm. long with small obovate anthers and slender long-pilose fila- 
ments; those of the inner row 3, similar but shorter and with a pair 
of rounded subsessile glands at the bases of the filaments; rudimen- 
tary ovary 0. Staminodes of @2 flowers 9, minute, those of the 
outer rows 6, clavate, with pilose filaments, those of the inner row 3 
subulate with a pair of rounded glands at the base. - Ovary globose ; 
style thick, curved; stigma peltate, 3-lobed. Fruit (unripe) 
obovoid, apiculate, Rented on the thick enlarged or -tube, the 
lobes ae staminodes persistent. 
PERAK: at Temango, Ridley 14603! (both ¢ and @ branches). 
A very interesting and pretty species, which looks as if it were deciduous, 
