152 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
Var. tomentosa, Gamble. Leaves more obovate, rusty-pubescent 
beneath as are the upper branchlets and buds. 
Perak: Scortechini 1289! 
18. Lirs—EA MAGNIFICA, Gamble. A small tree, bark smooth, 
pale,thin; branchlets moderately stout, pale brown, uppermost angu- 
lar rusty-pubescent; buds lanceolate, hardly perulate. Leaves perga- 
maceous, more or less crowded towards the ends of the branchlets ; 
oblanceolate, rounded and very shortly acuminate at apex, very long- 
and narrowly-cuneate at base; upper surface dull, olive-green when 
dry, glabrous except the midrib; lower surface paler, minutely grey- 
puberulous or glabrous except on the nerves; 23—43 cm. long, 
6—10 cm. broad; midrib stout, flat or impressed above, very pro- 
minent beneath; main nerves 15 to 20 at about 50° with the midrib, 
slightly curved to the margin, impressed above, raised beneath ; 
secondary nerves few and short; transverse nervules irregular and 
obscure; reticulation obscurely netted; petiole stout, 1 cm. long, 
sometimes 0. Flowers in long- (about 2 cm.) peduncled umbellules in 
very short thick woody racemes each bearing about 12 and about 
7 mm. long, the racemes forming globose clusters 7—8 cm. broad on 
thick branches below the leaves; umbellules with 6 orbicular con- 
cave involucral bracts, densely grey-pubescent without, glabrous 
within, ¢ umbellules about 2 em. in diam. when open, 2? much 
smaller ; flowers in each umbellule 7—9in ¢, about 5in @ ; perianth- 
tube funnel-shaped, 2—3 mm.long; perianth-lobes usually 6, oblong, 
ciliate, glandular, 3-nerved, 5—6 mm. long in ¢,4 in 2. Stamens 
of ¢ flowers 9 to 12, usually 12 in 4 rows, those of the two outer 
rows 7—9 mm. long, the filaments very slender and villous, the 
anthers 3°5—4 mm. long, acuminate, the upper cells oblong introrse, 
the lower overlapping the upper and lateral ; those of the two inner 
rows 5—6 mm. long, similar but with the anthers shorter, and bear- 
ing at the base of the filaments a pair of stout pyriform sessile or 
subsessile glands under 1 mm. long; rudimentary ovary ovoid with 
long (4—5 mm.) style and spreading 2—3-fid stigma. Staminodes 
of 2 flowers usually 12, sometimes more and rather variable, those 
of the 2 outer rows linear-subulate, 4—5 mm. long, slightly villous 
near the base, those of the 2 inner rows shorter and rather stouter 
3—4 mm. long and bearing a pair of stout basal glands asin the ¢. 
Ovary ovoid; style 7 mm. long, gradually expanding upwards; 
stigma peltate, lobed, 25 mm. in diam. at top. rut (unripe) 
ovoid, subtruncate, apiculate, 10 mm. long, 7 mm. broad, seated on 
