166 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
slightly villous filaments, those of the inner rows shorter with a pair 
of ovate stipitate glands about halfway up the filaments; rudi- 
mentary ovary conical, glabrous. Staminodes of 9 flowers (rather 
imperfect) 12, clavate, nearly glabrous, the inner ones with a pair 
of large glands somewhat above the base. Ovary ovoid, glabrous ; 
style thick; stigma peltate. Fruit a globose berry half-enclosed in 
the cup-shaped tuberculate sulcate enlarged perianth-tube, 10 mm. 
broad at the mouth, 5 mm. high, the margin crenately lobed; 
enlarged peduncle thickened, 6 mm. long. Cylicodaphne ochracea, 
Blume Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. II. 13; Meissn. in DC. Prodr. XV. 1. 
205. Lepidadenia ochracea, Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. I. i. 938. 
PERAK: at Chanderiang and Goping, from about 100—250 m. alt., 
King’s Collector, 5666!, 5959!; Scortechini? ! —Distriz. Sumatra 
(Korthals). 
34. LITSEA OBLANCEOLATA, Gamble in Kew Bull. 362 (1910). A 
small evergreen tree reaching about 10—12 m. in height and with a 
diameter of stem of 45 cm.; branchlets pale brown, slender, 
lenticellate, with raised vertical lines below the nodes and leaves; 
innovations and leafy buds rusty-puberulous as is the inflorescence. 
Leaves chartaceous, alternate; oblanceolate, obtuse at apex witha 
short abrupt acumen, long-cuneately-narrowed at base; both surfaces 
glabrous, dull, upper pale brown when dry, lower sub-glaucous; 
10—23 cm. long, 3—6 cm. broad; midrib rather slender, slightly 
raised above, more so beneath ; main nerves 8—10 pairs, impressed 
above, starting at an angle of about 40° with the midrib and at 
once curving obliquely to and along the margin; transverse nervules 
fairly regular and straight but obscure; reticulation scarcely 
visible; petiole slender, twisted, 10—15 mm. long, bordered above 
by the decurrent margins of the blade. Flowers in sessile umbellules 
on very short (at most 7 mm. long) axillary or lateral thick racemes ; 
raceme bracts ovate, rusty tomentose; involucral bracts 4, orbicular, 
concave; flowers in each umbellule 4—5, on slender pedicels 2 mm. 
long; perianth-lobes spreading, ovate, obtuse, glabrous within, 
2mm.long. Stamens of 3 flowers 9—12, slender, glabrous, those 
of the outer rows exsert, those of the inner rows shorter and with a 
pair of sessile oblong glands a little above the base of the filaments; 
rudimentary ovary very small, with slender style and small bifid 
stigma. Staminodes of 2 flowers and fruit not known. 
Perak: chiefly in moist places near Larut up to 90 m. alt., 
King’s Collector 1952 !, 2020! 
