144 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
umbellules, many togetherin short axillary or lateral tawny-pubescent 
bracteate racemes 5—6mm. long, several such racemes together often 
forming dense cylindric clusters of flowers around the branchlets; 
umbellules when open 10—12 mm. broad in 3, 8 mm. in @ ; involu- 
cral bracts 4—5, orbicular, concave, reflexed in flower; flowers in each 
umbellule 5—6; perianth-tube short, on a 2—3 mm. long villous 
pedicel; lobes usually 6, very variable in shape, from linear-oblong to 
elliptic or obovate, ciliate, glandular-punctate, 2—3 mm. long. 
Stamens in 3 flowers normally 9, an outer row of 3 eglandular, a 
second row of 3 1—2-glandular, a 3rd row of 3 opposite the first 
biglandular, but sometimes there is a 4th row of 3 biglandular and 
occasionally a few more, the outer rows slightly longer than the 
inner, up to 4 mm. inall; glands large, reniform, stipitate, attached 
to the slender villous filaments near the base; upper anther-cells all 
introrse, lower lateral or extrorse ; rudimentary ovary 0. Siaminodes 
in ¢@ flowers in similar number and arrangement, the outer rows 
clavate with slender villous filaments 2 mm. long, the inner subulate 
thick 1:5 mm. long, the glands very large. Ovary ovoid ; style thick, 
slightly curved ; stigma broad, peltate. Fruit ellipsoid, 7—10 mm. 
long, seated on the slightly enlarged perianth-tube 4 mm. broad, 
with somewhat reflexed entire margins; enlarged pedicel 7 mm. 
long hardly thickened; pericarp smooth, black; cotyledons hemi- 
spherical. Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. V. 162; Prain Beng. Plants 903; 
Brandis Ind. Trees 536; Koord. & Val. Bijdr. X. 147. LZ. mono- 
petala, Pers. Syn. Il. 4. Tetranthera monopetala, Roxb. Cor. Pl. II. 
26, t. 148 and FI. Ind. III. 821; Neesin Wall. Pl. As. Rar. II. 66 
and Syst. Laur. 525; Blume Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. I. 378 ; Meissn. 
in DC. Prodr. XV. 1.189; Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. I. 948; Brandis For. 
Fl. 380, t. 45; Kurz For. Fl. II. 299. TZ. macrophylla, Wall. Cat. 
2549. TT. alnoides, Miq. Pl. Jungh. 180 and Fl. Ind. Bat. le. 7. 
hexantha, Sieb. Fl. Maurit. 92. 
Prenanea: Maingay K.D. 1277!; Government Hill, Curtis 283! ; 
Government Hill and Balik Pulau, Ridley 6371!, 7065!, 9731!, 
10352!. Prrak: Gunong Pundo, King’s Collector 8326! PaHANa: 
at Pulau Tawar, Ridley 2271! ; at Sungei Telai, Machado 11553!; at 
Kwala Tembeling, Ridley’s Collector! (these two with more glabrous 
involucres).—Distris. Northern India, Burma, Java, China. 
12. Lairsza corpata, Hook. f. in Fl. Br. Ind. V. 177 (1886). A 
spreading evergreen tree reaching 15 m. in height, occasionally 30 m. 
with a diameter of 90 cm. (Kunstler 8269); branchlets rather 
