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Wallich 7878!, 8005; Phillips!; Curtis 326!, 733!, 1073!. 1458!; 
Ridley 9340!. Prax: at Tapa Simpang and Tupai, Wray 1260!, 
2038 !, 2047 !, 2330!, 3603!; at Tapa Temango, etc., Ridley 14046!, 
14505!, 14508!, 14583!; Scortechini!; Tea Gardens, Ridley 2981!; 
near Larut, King’s Collector 998!, 2040!, 2584!, 3033!, 3431!, 
3505!, 4494!, 5927!, 7626!, 7859!. SrLancor: at Ulu Selangor 
and Bukit Kutu, Goodenough 10544!, 10545!; at Kepong, Burn- 
Murdoch (Ridley) 14285!; at Kwala Lumpur, Ridley 7626!. Matac- 
ca: Maingay K. D. 1276!; Grifith!. Srycapore: Ridley 4825!. 
—Distris. Burma, Malay Archipelago. 
There is a huge amount of material available for the study of this poly- 
morphic species. The old specimens of the Calcutta Herbarium were fortunately 
carefully arranged some yearsago by Sir George King according to varieties. 
According to this arrangement, the most general form, that apparently described 
as such in the Fl. Br. Ind., is the var. ochracea, Blume, which is described 
above and that most easily separable is var. fusco-tomentosa, Meissn., which 
is maintained in the Fl. Br. Ind. and often has stamens with only 2 cells. 
Were it not for Sir George King’s careful work, I should have preferred to 
follow Koorders and Valeton and treat the whole species as one with forms 
gradually passing from one to the other, but I think var. fusco-tomentosa 
above-mentioned and var. angusta, Meissn., also admitted in the Fl. Br. Ind., 
are clear enough. I have further added var. attenuata, the form with large 
leaves long acuminate at apex and attenuate at base; but of this 1 have more 
doubt, for the specimens graduate into the general form on the one hand and 
into angusta on the other. 
Var. fusco-tomentosa, Meissn. |.c. Leaves, branchlets and inno- 
vations densely villous with long golden-tawny hairs; the leaves 
variable, usually ovate or ovate-oblong but sometimes even oblanceo- 
late or obovate, usually cuspidate-acuminate at apex, rounded at 
base but occasionally acute, the length often up to 20 cm., the 
breadth to nearly 10 cm.; main nerves up to 20 pairs, the lowest 
pairs close together ; branchlets often zigzag. Flowers as in type, 
but stamens often only 2-celled, apparently by loss of the partitions 
between the upper and lower cells. Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. V. 163. 
PERAK: at Gunong Ijuk, Scortechini!; at Simpang and Tupai 
Larut, Wray 2047!, 2330!. Nari Sempitan: at Gunong Angsi, 
Ridley 11895!. Trinacanvu: at Bundi, Rostado!. Mauacca: Griffith 
K. D. 4293!; Maingay K. D. 1251; at Sungli Hudang, Goodenough 
1595!. JonorE: near Gunong Panti and at Tebong Tinggyi, Ridley 
4156! 11050! 
The many specimens with only 2-celled anthers have puzzled me con- 
siderably, other characters being decidedly those of Litsea andnot of Lindera. 
