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mentary ovary ovate with short style and cleft stigma. Staminodes 
of 2 flowers also 12, glabrous, those of the outer rows clavate, 
those of the inner rows subulate with a pair of large sessile glands 
above the base. Ovary ovoid; style thick, curved; stigma capitate. 
Fruit globose with slightly conical blunt apex, 10 mm. in diam. 
seated on the enlarged spotted perianth-tube; cupule when young 
nearly globose enclosing the fruit with only a very small orifice, at 
length obconical enclosing only the lower half of the fruit, 8 mm. 
high and 12 mm. in diameter at the mouth, margin smooth. 
enlarged pedicel thick, slightly flattened, 4 mm. long; pericarp waxy 
white when fresh, yellowish when dry. 
PERAK: at Waterfall Hill, Wray 1853!, 4036!; Scortechini! ; in 
hill forests near Larut at 250—450 m. alt., King’s Coltector 6908!, 
7569 !. 
25. LITSEA SINGAPORENSIS, Gamble in Kew Bull. 358 (1910). A 
tree (?), branchlets moderately stout, pale brown, glabrous; buds 
lanceolate, pubescent, Leaves coriaceous, alternate ; oblong-lanceo- 
late or -oblanceolate, obtuse or obtusely acute at apex, long- 
cuneately narrowed at base; margins recurved; upper surface 
smooth, shining, areolately reticulate, glabrous, pale brown when 
dry, lower also smooth and glabrous and lighter in colour; 
15—30 cm. long, 4—7 cm. broad; midrib stout, flat or slightly 
raised above, raised beneath ; main nerves 6—12 pairs, obscure and 
slightly impressed above, prominent beneath and conspicuous, 
curved to and along the margin; transverse nervules faint; reticula- 
tion areolate, fairly prominent on upper surface; petiole stout, 
rugose, 1:5—2 cm. long. lowers in puberulous pedunculate (up to 
13 mm.) umbellules in axillary or lateral thick racemes of about 
1—4 and 7 mm. long; involucral bracts 4, thin, orbicular, concave ; 
flowers in each umbellule 5, on thick short pedicels ; perianth-tube 
short, lobes spathulate, rusty-villous without. Stamens in ¢ flowers 
12, those of the two inner rows biglandular (buds only available) ; 
staminodes of 9 flowers not seen. fruit depressed globose, apicu- 
late, 15 mm. in diam., seated on a shallow rather thin hemispheric 
cupule 7 mm. high, 16 mm. broad; cupule broadening with age, 
rugose or pustulate without, margin smooth; enlarged pedicel short, 
6—7 mm. long, stout; pericarp smooth, pale yellowish or greenish 
when dry. 
SINGAPORE: at Bukit Timah, Toas, in Garden jungle and 
