160 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
Botanic Garden, Ridley 2118!, 3372!, 3894!, 4135!, 4826!, 5965!, 
5736!; at Tanglin, Hullett 5738!—Distris. Borneo, Bongaya river, 
Ridley 9075! 
26. LITSEA PERAKENSIS, Gamble in Kew Bull. 359 (1910). A 
tree reaching 20 or more metres in height and 50 cm. in diam. of 
stem ; branchlets nearly black when dry, striate, glabrous. Leaves 
sub-coriaceous, alternate; oblong, oblong-obovate or -oblanceolate, 
obtuse acute or acuminate at apex, attenuate at base; dark green 
above when fresh, olive-brown and shining when dry, bluish green 
beneath when fresh, sub-glaucous when dry, glabrous on both 
surfaces; margins recurved; 15—30 cm. long, 5—8 ecm. broad; 
midrib stout, reddish, scarcely raised above, prominent beneath; 
main nerves 10—12 pairs, somewhat irregularly parallel, starting at 
about 50° with the midrib and curved gradually to and along the 
margin, the upper few looped so as nearly to rejoin the midrib at 
its tip; transverse nervules few, faint as is the reticulation ; 
petiole stout, 1:55—3 cm. long, glabrous. lowers in slenderly- 
peduncled (S—10 mm. long) umbellules in short axillary lateral or 
sometimes sub-terminal glabrous or minutely puberulous racemes 
about 8 mm. long; raceme bracts lanceolate, acuminate ; umbellules 
(3 only) up to 10 mm. broad when open; involucral bracts 4, 
orbicular, concave, glabrous within, 3—4 mm. in diam.; flowers in 
each umbellule 5; pedicels 2—3 mm. long; perianth-lobes oblong, 
obtuse or acute, ciliate at the tips, 3 mm. long. Stamens of o 
flowers 9—12, usually 12, those of the outer rows 5—6 mm. long 
with obovate anthers and slender filaments slightly villous at base, 
those of the inner rows shorter with smaller anthers and a pair of 
rounded shortly stipitate glands near the base; lower anther-cells 
all lateral; rudimentary ovary short, with thick glabrous style and 
capitate stigma. Staminodes of 2 flowers not known. Fruit glossy 
with white spots when fresh, yellowish when dry, globose, 1 cm. in 
diam., apiculate, seated on the shallow cup-shaped enlarged perianth- 
tube 5 mm. high and 10 mm. in diam. at the mouth ; the cup and 
its very thick somewhat flattened 8—10 mm. long pedicel roughly 
tubercular. 
Perak: at Larut and Goping up to 250 m. alt., King’s Collector 
5114!, 6069!, 6085!. JoHorm: at Sungei Telrang, Ridley 13233!. 
SINGAPORE: at Bukit Timah, Ridley 14135!. 
Kunstler describes this as a magnificent and rare tree. 
