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cells all introrse except the lower ones of inner row which are often 
lateral; rudimentary ovary conical, with slender style and small 
spreading stigma. Staminodes of 9 flowers 9, those of the Ist and 
2nd_ rows linear, villous, 1 mm. long, those of the 3rd row subulate, 
villous, with a pair of large semisagittate sessile glands above the 
base of the filaments. Ovary ovoid, glabrous, with short thick style 
and large peltate usually lobed stigma. Fruit small, globose, 5—6 
mm. in diameter, seated on the very slightly enlarged flattened 
perianth-tube about 2 mm. broad ; pedicel 5 mm. long; pericarp 
fleshy, glabrous, aromatic; cotyledons hemispherical. Hook. f. Fl. 
Br. Ind. V. 155; Koord. & Val. Bijdr. X. 142; Brandis Ind. Trees 
535. Tetranthera citrata, Nees Syst. Laur. 560; Bl. Mus. Bot. 
Lugd.-Bat. I. 385; Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. I. 958. 7. polyantha, Wall. 
Cat. 2538; Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. II. 67 and Syst. Laur. 545; 
Meissn. in DC. Prodr. XV. 1. 182 (excluding China as locality) ; 
Kurz For. Fl. IT. 301. 
Perak: Thaiping Hills, 3000 ft., Ridley 11390! Panane: at 
Telom, Ridley 13780!.—Distris. India (Eastern Himalaya, Assam, 
Khasia Hills, Manipur, usually above 5000 ft.), Upper Burma, Java 
(above 2000 ft.). 
It is very difficult in poor specimens to distinguish this from Lindera 
pipericarpa. 
14, Litsza Petrotata, Hook. f. in Fl. Br. Ind. V. 171 (1886). 
A very large evergreen tree reaching to 30 or even 45 m. in height 
and to more than 1] m. in diameter of stem; branchlets moderately 
stout, grey-brown when dry, uppermost and innovations glabrous 
except the minutely puberulous grey ovate-lanceolate buds. Leaves 
chartaceous, alternate; elliptic or elliptic-oblong or -lanceolate, 
obtuse or obtusely acute or sometimes acuminate at apex, cuneate 
sometimes unequally at base; upper surface bright green with 
yellow ribs when fresh, dull or shining reddish-brown when dry, 
glabrous, lower also glabrous, paler reddish-brown ; 7—15 cm. long, 
3—8 cm. broad ; midrib impressed above; main nerves 5—8 pairs, 
slender, impressed above, curving to the margin ; transverse nervules 
many, sub-parallel, not prominent; reticulation areolate; petiole 
slender, 1:5—2cm.long. Flowers in umbellules on slender peduncles 
5 to 10 mm. long in ¢, shorter and stouter in 2, in rather dense 
lateral puberulous bracteate racemes usually 5—7 mm. long, forming 
clusters of up to 12; umbellules about 8 mm. in diam. in ¢, 5 mm. 
