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lation obscure ; petiole stout, 1—2 cm. long, densely golden-hirsute, 
often geniculate at the leaf-insertion. Flowers in umbellules on 
slender, 1 cm. long, peduncles, clustered in the axils of the leaves, 
rarely more than 3—4 together; involucral bracts 4, concave, 
nerved, the margins fimbriate, hirsute without, glabrous within; 
flowers in each umbellule 5—6; perianth-lobes oblong, 2—3 mm. 
long, very glandular, nearly glabrous, the apex dentate; pedicels 
very short. Stamens of 3 flowers 9; filaments slender, glabrous 
except a tuft of long hairs at their bases; anthers 4-celled, those of 
outer rows obovate, those of the inner row ovate with a pair of large 
sessile glands a little above the base of the filaments, rudimentary 
ovary 0. Staminodes of 2 flowers and fruit not known. 
PERAK: road to Gunong Hijan, 750 m. alt., Curtis 1344!; 
Goping and Thaiping 90—150 m. alt., King’s Collector 404! 8399! 
Var. geniculata, Gamble. Branchlets prominently geniculate at 
the nodes. Leaves smaller (S—12 cm. long, 6—7 cm. broad), ovate 
or orbicular, obtuse and sometimes slightly apiculate at apex, sub- 
cordate at base, bullate; upper surface shining, glabrous. Flowers 
similar but anthers sometimes 2-celled or with very minute upper 
cells, filaments sparsely hirsute. 
Perak: at Goping, King’s Collector 878! 
This variety comes very near indeed to extreme forms of L. amara, var. 
fusco-tomentosa, and may be said to be a connecting link between the two 
species. 
11. Litsza POLYANTHA, Juss. in Ann. Mus. VI. 211 (1805). A 
moderate-sized evergreen tree, reaching 12—18 m. in height and 50—60 
cm. in diam. of stem; bark dark grey; branchlets moderately stout, 
somewhat angular, dark brown, the uppermost and innovations with 
more or less tawny pubescence; buds lanceolate, leafy. Leaves soft 
when fresh, chartaceous when dry, alternate, sub-bifarious; elliptic or 
elliptic-oblong or suborbicular, obtuse or slightly acute at apex, 
rounded at base or nearly subacute; glabrous and dull on the upper 
surface, grey- or tawny-pubescent on the lower sometimes nearly 
glabrous; 7—15 cm. long, 4—10 cm. broad; midrib rather slender, 
impressed on the upper, raised on the lower surface; main nerves 
8—12 pairs, at about 60° with the midrib at first then curving to the 
margin, impressed above ; transverse nervules many, parallel and 
prominent beneath, joined again by subparallel reticulations ; petiole 
pubescent, 12—25mm.long. Flowers in pedunculate (6é—12 mm. long) 
