156 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
margin where they, at any rate the upper ones, meet in loops 
strongly marked beneath; transverse nervules many, prominent, 
slightly arched; reticulation minutely netted; petiole fairly stout, 
1—2°5 cm. long, channelled above. Flowers in umbellules on rather 
stout peduncles 8—12 cm. long in short axillary or lateral 6—8 mm. 
long racemes of about 6—8 each; raceme bracts ovate deciduous; 
umbellules when open 10—12 mm. broad (¢ only); involucral 
bracts 4°5, ovate or ovate-orbicular, concave, white-tomentose, reflexed 
in flower; flowers in each umbellule 4—6; perianth-tube 3 mm. long, 
lobes 6—8, spreading or reflexed, variable but usually oblong- 
spathulate, densely villous without, glabrous within, 5 mm. long. 
Stamens in 3 flowers 12—16, normally 12, those of outer rows 
6—8 mm. long with ovate anthers and very slender sparsely villous 
filaments, those of inner rows shorter with subquadrate anthers and 
a pair of round long stipitate glands at about one-third of the 
length of the filaments; rudimentary ovary 0. Staminodes in 9 
flowers (bud only) 9—15, those of the outer rows clavate with villous 
filaments, those of the inner rows subulate-clavate with a pair of 
reniform stipitate glands near the base. Ovary globose, included in 
the speedily circumsciss perianth-tube ; style thick, curved, glabrous; 
stigma large, conical. Fruit ovoid, to cylindric-ovoid 12 to 20 mm. 
long, 8 to 10 mm. broad, the base enclosed in the hemispheric cup- 
shaped enlarged perianth-tube 7—8 mm. high and 12 mm. in diam. 
at the circular mouth, the outside slightly rough, slightly puberu- 
lous; pedicel rather slender, slightly flattened, 10 mm. long; 
pericarp smooth, shining, yellowish-brown when dry. 
PERAK: at Sungie Larut and Kota, Wray 2353!, 2867!, 3119!; 
in mixed forest about Larut up to 450 m. alt., King’s Collector 3296!, 
3509!, 4937!, 6497!, 10283!, 10926! SrLancor: at Kwala Lum- 
pur, Ridley’s Collector!; Burn-Murdoch (Ridley 13204!) Mawacca: 
Maingay K.D. 1259!; at Bukit Bruang, Goodenough 1422!; at 
Brisu, Derry 1047!. 
22. LitsEA QuERCINA, Gamble in Kew Bull. 318 (1910). A tree; 
branchlets greyish-brown, rather slender, uppermost grey-pubescent 
as are the innovations and the petioles and midrib of the leaves. 
Leaves coriaceous, alternate, areolate-reticulate ; elliptic or elliptic- 
ovate, obtuse and mucronate sometimes emarginate at apex, 
rounded at base; both surfaces dark greyish-brown when dry, upper 
shining, glabrous except on the nerves, lower minutely puberulous 
