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spreading in ¢, more spreading in 9. Stamens of ¢& flowers 12, in 
_ 4rows, those of the outer row longest, 3 mm. long, eglandular, those 
of the 2nd 2°5 mm. long eglandular, those of the 3rd and 4th 2—2°5 
mm. long with a pair of large reniform stipitate glands near the base ; 
anthers ovoid, filaments of outer rows villous, of inner nearly 
glabrous, cells of 4th row anthers sometimes 2 only, all introrse ; 
rudimentary ovary slender with slender style and bifid stigma. 
Staminodes of 2 flowers 12, those of 2 outer rows slenderly clavate, 
2 mm. long with villous filaments, those of inner rows similar but 
shorter and with a pair of large stipitate glands near the base. 
Ovary ovoid; style thick, curved; stigma peltate, bifid. Fruit 
ellipsoid, apiculate, 8—12 mm. long, 7—8 mm. broad, seated on a 
thick cup formed by the enlarged perianth-tube, cup at first nearly 
enclosing the fruit, afterwards hemispheric 10 mm. in diameter, the 
outside rugose, the margin crenulate with remains of the perianth- 
lobes and staminodes; enlarged pedicel very short, thick; pericarp 
shining, yellowish when dry. 
Penance: Phillips; on Government Hill, Maingay K.D. 1258/2 !; 
at Moniots’ road, 600 m. alt., Curtis 1587!, 2159!; at 550 m., King’s 
Collector 1580!. Perak: at lower camp, Gunong Batu Pateh, 
Wray 921!, 969!, 1081!, 1188!; Scortechint 369!; at 300 to 600 m. 
alt., King’s Collector 8067! 
The leaves and fruit of this species resemble those of L. Griffithiz, but the 
leaves are alternate and not opposite and the flowers are different. Were it 
not for the remarks made by Sir Jos. Hooker in the Fl. Br. Ind. I should have 
been disposed to refer this species to Tetranthera accedens, Blume. 
21. LitsEA cCASTANEA, Hook. f. in FI. Br. Ind. V. 171 (1886). 
A large tree reaching 30 or 40 m. in height and a great girth of 
stem ; branchlets rather stout, dark grey-brown, hoary, lenticellate, 
uppermost minutely greyish-tawny-puberulous as are the linear 
lanceolate buds the petioles and inflorescence. Leaves chartaceous, 
alternate ; elliptic, elliptic-ovate or -obovate, sometimes nearly or- 
bicular, obtuse or emargmate at apex, rounded sometimes un- 
equally at base ; upper surface dark green when fresh, shining and 
dark reddish-brown when dry, lower paler and redder, both glabrous 
except the nerves, sometimes puberulous beneath and areolate 
reticulate; margins recurved; 7—22 cm. long, 5—10 cm. broad; 
midrib stout, deeply impressed above, much raised beneath ; main 
nerves 8—16 pairs, deeply impressed above, at an angle of about 60° 
with the midrib at first nearly straight then curved to near the 
