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to nearly glabrous; 6—8 cm. Jong, 3—3°5 cm. broad; midrib 
slender but prominent, pubescent, deeply impressed above; main 
nerves 7—9 pairs, impressed above, starting at about 70° with the 
midrib and curved to near the margin; transverse nervules faint ; 
areolate reticulation prominent on both surfaces under the lens; 
petiole 8—10 mm. long, rather slender. Flowers in umbellules on 
peduncles 6—8 mm. long on very short lateral racemes. Fruit 
ellipsoid-oblong, 2 cm. long, 1 cm. in diam., seated on the cup-shaped 
enlarged perianth-tube, the cup black when dry, dull, 7 mm. high, 
9 m. in diam. at the sharp circular margin; enlarged pedicel very 
stout, 4 mm. long; pericarp smooth, shining, yellowish and wrinkled 
when dry. 
PERAK: at lower camp, Gunong Batu Pateh, Wray 1174! 
Very near L. castanea, but has much smaller thicker leaves, not red when 
dry, and with fewer main nerves. 
23. LITSEA CYLINDROCARPA, Gamble in Kew Bull. 318 (1910). 
A spreading evergreen tree reaching 30 or 40 m. in height with a 
diam. of 90—120 cm. of stem; branchlets moderately stout, grey_ 
ish, smooth, uppermost angular, minutely grey-puberulous as are 
the lanceolate buds and the inflorescence. Leaves coriaceous, alter- 
nate ; elliptic or elliptic-oblong or -obovate, obtusely acute or rounded 
and very shortly apiculate or simply mucronate at apex, cuneate or 
attenuate at base; dark green and shining above when fresh, dull 
and brown and glabrous when dry except the prominently impressed 
midrib and main nerves, pale brown to glaucous and very minutely 
puberulous beneath; margins recurved; 9—18 cm. long, 4—9 cm. 
broad ; midrib slender ; main nerves 6—12 pairs, prominent, parallel, 
deeply impressed, starting at about 70° with the midrib and only 
slightly curving till close to the margin; transverse nervules many, 
straight, parallel but often hardly visible ; reticulation not visible; 
petiole 10—25 mm. long, channelled and puberulous above. Flowers 
in rather long- (up to 1 cm.) pedunculate umbellules in axillary or 
lateral grey-pubescent racemes or clusters of racemes about 15—17 
mm. long; raceme bracts ovate, acute, deciduous; involucral 
bracts ovate-orbicular, 4—5 mm. long, concave, glabrous within, 
at length spreading; flowers in each umbellule 5; pedicels short, 
tawny-villous; perianth-lobes oblong acute, very membranous, 
villous, 2—3 mm. long. Stamens of 3 flowers very variable, 8—13, 
normally 9, those of the outer rows up to 5 mm. long with ovate 
anthers and slender villous filaments, sometimes with 1 or 2 glands 
