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Jong in panicles of racemes reaching to 4 sometimes to 10 cm. in 
length; rhachis angled, black when dry, minutely puberulous or 
glabrescent ; raceme bracts minute, grey-puberulous, caducous ; 
umbellules when open 5 mm. in diam.; involucral bracts 4—5, 
glabrous, reflexed in flower, the outer orbicular, the inner ovate or 
oblong; flowers in each umbellule 5—6, very small, on short villous 
pedicels; perianth-tube glabrous within except for tufts of long 
hair at the mouth; lobes 6 or fewer, some occasionally wanting, some 
merely linear, normally lanceolate, acuminate, villous on the back, 
1—1°5 mm. long, those in ¢@ flowers early deciduous in a ring. 
Stamens of 3 flowers usually 9, the 6 of the outer rows 2 mm. long 
with subquadrate anthers and slender filaments long pilose at the 
base, the 3 of the inner row shorter and with a pair of shortly 
stipitate reniform glands near the bases of the filaments; rudimentary 
ovary 0. Sitaminodes of 92 flowers 9, those of the outer rows 6 
clavate, the filaments long-pilose, those of the inner row 3 subulate 
with a pair of large nearly sessile glands at their middle. Ovary 
globose, glabrous; style short; stigma large, peltate, lobed. Fruit 
globose or slightly ellipsoid, 8 mm. long, 7 mm. in diam., seated on 
the slightly enlarged obconic perianth-tube 3 mm. in diam.; enlarged 
pedicel 5 mm. long; pericarp thin, smooth ; cotyledons hemispheric. 
Koord. & Val. Bijdr. X. 156. Tetranthera brachystachya, Bl. Mus. 
Bot. Lugd.-Bat. i. 384 (1851); Meissn. l.c. 196. 7. lucida, Hassk. 
Cat. Hort. Bogor. 90 (1844) and Pl. Jav. Rar. 216; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 
I. 1, 956 excl. syn. ; Meissn. in DC. Prodr. XV. 1, 197. 
Perak: at Matang Jambu, etc., Wray 2518 ! 2886!; forests of 
Larut and Ula Buvong at 120—200 m. alt., King’s Collector 6855, 
10528 !—Distris. Java. 
The description of the fruit is taken from Buitenzorg specimens. 
Koord. and Val. consider that Wight’s t. 1836 is probably intended to represent 
this species, but a comparison of the specimen of Wight’s in Herb. Kew does 
not bear out this suggestion. Wight’s t. 1836 probably represents L. glabrata, 
Wall. Litsea lucida, Bl. Bijdr. 961, is a Lindera. 
16. Litsza aNcuLATA, Blume Bijdr. 563 (1825). An evergreen 
tree reaching 12—17 m. in height and 40—50 cm. in diam. of stem ; 
branchlets moderately stout, grey, blackish-scurfy and lenticellate, 
uppermost angular, nearly black when dry, minutely puberulous ; leaf 
buds lanceolate, grey-puberulous. Leaves coriaceous, alternate ; ellip- 
tic or elliptic-oblong or -obovate, obtusely acute or acuminate at apex, 
attenuate or cuneate at base; upper surface olive-brown, shining, 
