168 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
when dry, dull, lower glaucous; 10—18 cm. long, 4—8 em. broad; 
midrib slender, impressed above, raised beneath ; main nerves about 6 
pairs, impressed above, starting at about 40° with the midrib and 
curved to and along the margin where they become looped; transverse 
nervules prominent, distant, joined again transversely in a network, 
prominent beneath; petiole rather slender, 8—l10mm. long. Flowers 
in rather long (1—2 cm.) -peduncled subglabrous umbellules 2—3 
together in a very short raceme in the axils of the upper leaves or of 
fallen leaves; umbeliules (3 only) about 7 mm. broad when open; 
involucral bracts 4, orbicular, concave, 4 mm. broad; flowers 5 in 
each umbellule; perianth-tube short, villous within, lobes 6, oblong, 
obtuse, glabrous except at base within and outside, prominently gland- 
dotted, 2 mm. long. Stamens of ¢ flowers 12, those of the outer 
rows 3—4 mm. long with elliptic anthers and slender villous filaments, 
those of the inner rows shorter with oblong obtuse anthers and a 
pair of large subsessile quadrate glands near the bases of the 
filaments; rudimentary ovary conical, glabrous. Staminodes of 9 
flowers and fruit unknown. 
PERAK: near Thaiping in dense forest at 150—300 m. alt., 
King’ s Collector 8492!. 
This species somewhat resembles JL. gemellifiora, Boerl. (Tetranthera 
gemelliflora, Mig.); but that species has much thinner leaves and almost fili- 
form peduncles, rarely more than two together on the extremely short rhachis. 
37. LitszaA HELFerRI, Hook. f. in Fl. Br. Ind. V. 172 (1886).— 
Distris. Tenasserim (or Andaman Islands) Helfer, K.D. 4307. 
Var. ovata, Gambie. A tree; branchlets rather slender, dark 
brown, glabrous. Leaves subcoriaceous; ovate or elliptic, acuminate 
at apex, attenuate at base, upper surface olive-brown when dry, 
glabrous, lower glaucescent, glabrous except along the nerves ; 5—11 
cm. long, 3—6 cm. broad; midrib rather stout, main nerves 4—6 
pairs curved to anastomoze near the margin, slightly impressed 
above ; transverse nervules prominent, joined by a prominent reticu- 
lation; petiole stout, 5—7 mm. long. Flowers in subglabrous 
umbellules on peduncles 5 mm. long, 1—3 together on extremely 
short tubercles in the axils of the leaves; involucral bracts reflexed 
in flower; flowers 4—5 in each umbellule. Stamens 12, the 6 of 
the 3rd and 4th rows biglandular, filaments glabrous; anthers sub- 
quadrate ; rudimentary ovary ovoid; with a slender style. Stami- 
nodes of 2 flowers and fruit not known. 
