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PERAK: at Ulu Batang Padang, Wray 1600! 
This may prove to be a distinct species when more and better specimens are 
obtainable. 
38. LirszA MYRISTIC@FOoLIA, Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. V. 172 (1886). 
An evergreen tree reaching 15 to 18 ft. in height and 30 to 40cm. in 
diameter of stem; branchlets moderately stout, grey, the uppermost 
nearly black when dry; buds lanceolate, leafy; all parts quite 
glabrous. Leaves coriaceous, alternate; elliptic-oblong or lanceolate 
or obovate, obtuse or obtusely acute or acute at apex or sometimes 
retuse, cuneate or attenuate at base; upper surface bright green and 
glossy when fresh, olive brown and dull when dry, lower dull and 
subglaucous; margins recurved; 8—23 cm. long, 3—7 cm. broad; 
midrib deeply impressed above, raised prominently beneath; main 
nerves 6—12 pairs, immersed and faint, curved upwards to and 
along the margin, transverse nervules and reticulation not apparent ; 
petiole stout, 1—2 cm. long, channelled above. Flowers glabrous, 
in long- (1—2 cm.) peduncled umbellules, single or in pairs or many 
(up to 12) together on short racemes axillary or lateral on the upper 
branchlets; umbellules when open up to 10 mm. broad ing ,7 mm. in 
2 ; involucral bracts 4—6, orbicular, concave, reflexed; flowers in 
each umbeliule usually 6, shortly pedicelled; perianth-tube short, 
lobes 6, oblong, obtuse, obscurely toothed, 3—4 mm. long in ¢ 
shorter in @, gland-dotted. Stamens in 3 flowers 9—12, those 
of the two outer rows about 3 mm. long with ovate anthers and 
slender filaments, eglandular or sometimes with 1—2 small glands; 
those of the two inner rows shorter with oblong anthers and 
a pair of large reniform stipitate glands above the bases of the 
filaments; rudimentary ovary in 9-stamened flowers ovoid with 
curved style and peltate stigma, in 12-stamened flowers 0. Stami- 
nodes in 2 flowers 9 to 12, usually 12, the outer 2 rows oblong 
clavate 2°5 mm. long, the inner two rows similar but shorter and with 
a pair of large reniform glands at the base. Ovary ovoid; style 
thick, much curved; stigma large, peltate, 3-lobed. Fruit glo- 
bose, 8 mm. in diameter, half-immersed in the cupular fleshy 
enlarged perianth-tube 1 cm. long, 8 mm. broad at mouth; 
enlarged pedicel clavate, nearly at right angles with the cupules and 
up to 2°5 cm. long when dry; pericarp smooth. Brandis Ind. 
Trees 538. Tetranthera myristicefolia, Wall. Cat. 2548; Nees in Wall. 
Pl. As. Rar. IT. 67, IIT. 31, and Syst. Laur. 555 ; Kurz For. Fl. If. 302 
(excluding var. 2); Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. I. 1. 957. Cylicodaphne 
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