140 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
but*there is no information about this. The flowers are very small and 
delicate. 
9. Lirsza amMaRA, Blume Bijdr. 563 (1825). An evergreen 
shrub or small tree reaching at most 12—15 m. in height and 30—40 
cm, in diam. of stem; branchlets moderately stout, somewhat angled 
and sinuate, the uppermost and innovations rusty-tomentose. 
Leaves chartaceous when dry, alternate, very variable in shape and 
pubescence; elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, obtuse or acute at apex, 
acute or cuneate or rounded at base ; upper surface smooth, shining, 
lower rusty-villous, often glaucescent; 7—15 cm. long, 3—7 cm. 
broad; midrib prominent, channelled above, raised beneath ; main 
nerves S—16 pairs, spreading, curved near the margin, the lowest 
close, impressed above, prominent beneath; transverse nervules 
many, slightly arched, subparallel, also impressed above ; reticula- 
tion areolate ; petiole rusty-tomentose, 4—10 cm. long. lowers in 
short-peduncled (about 5 mm.) umbellules, in few- or many-flowered 
racemose axillary or lateral rusty-pubescent fascicles ; umbellules up 
to 8 mm. broad in 3, 6 mm. in 2, with 4—5 orbicular concave 
involucral bracts; flowers in each umbellule 5—7, with short 
pedicels ; perianth-tube short, villous within with long hairs; lobes 6, 
unequal, from linear-oblong to obovate, glabrous or nearly so, 2—3 
mm. long. Stamens in 3 normally 9, those of the 2 outer rows 
3—3°5 mm. long with oblong anthers and slender filaments long 
villous especially at base; those of the 3rd row shorter and with a 
pair of large subsessile reniform glands near the bases of the fila- 
ments ; rudimentary ovary 0. Staminodes of ¢@ flowers 9 to 12, 
those of the 2 outer rows slender, clavate, 1—1°5 mm. long, those of 
the inner rows subulate or clavate 1 mm. long with a pair of large 
reniform glands asin 3. Ovary ovoid; style thick, curved above ; 
stigma large, peltate, lobed. Fruit ovoid, apiculate, 8 mm. long, 
6 mm. broad, seated on the only slightly enlarged perianth-tube, 
which is 5 mm. in diam. at the mouth and bears the remains of the 
perianth-lobes and staminodes; fruiting pedicel obconic, greatly 
thickened, up to 5 mm. long, glabrous ; pericarp smooth. Hook. f. 
Fl. Br. Ind. V. 163; Koord. & Val. Bijdr. X. 150; Brandis Ind. 
Trees 536. T'etranthera amara, Nees Syst. Laur. 551; Bl. Mus. Bot. 
Lugd.-Bat. I. 379; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I. 1. 949; Meissn. in DC. 
Prodr. XV. 1. 190; Kurz. For. Fl. II. 299. 7’. fruticosa, Nees 1.c. 543. 
T. capitulaia, Miq. Pl. Jungh. I. 182 and FI. Ind. Bat. l.c. 
Kepau: at Yan, Ridley 5491!; Rawi island 15697!. PENANG: 
