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PERAK: at Kotah and Simpang, Wray 2409!, 3019!; in dense 
jungle on low ground, King’s Collector 6689!. Matacca: at Mer- 
liman, Ridley 5845!.—Disrris. Bangka (Teysmann)!; Borneo at 
Sarawak (Beccari 1649!, 4061!). 
The specimens King’s Collector 6689 and Beccari 4061 have usually 
thicker and broader and more obtuse even emarginate leaves, but the fruits are 
identical with the rest and some of the leaves are acute, and it does not seem 
to me expedient to propose a variety. 
40. LiTsEA MACHILIFOLIA, Gamble in Kew Bull. 320(1910). An 
evergreen tree, reaching 12 to 24 m. in height and about 40—50 cm. 
in diam. of stem ; branchlets slender, dark grey to nearly black when 
dry; leaf-buds linear, minutely grey-puberulous. Leaves coriaceous, 
alternate; oblong-lanceolate, long acuminate at apex, acute or 
cuneate often unequally at base; upper surface shining, glabrous, 
lower glaucescent when young, very minutely puberulous; margins 
slightly recurved ; 10—20cm. long, 3—7 cm. broad ; midrib slender, 
slightly raised above, more so beneath; main nerves obscure, 10O—15 
pairs, immersed, at about 60° with the midrib and curving upwards 
to join near the margin in faint loops; transverse nervules few, very 
faint and irregular, enclosing the minutely areolate reticulation ; 
petiole slender, black when dry, 1—2.cm.long. Flowers in umbellules 
on slender peduncles 4—5 mm. long, in slender paniculate glabrous 
axillary or subterminal often leafy racemes, the racemes 7—9cm. long 
in 3, 3—5 cm. in@ ; rhachis angular, black; raceme bracts small, 
ovate, caducous ; umbellules when open 8 mm. broad in 3,6 mm. in 
2 ; involucral bracts 4, sometimes 5, orbicular, glabrous, the inner 
slightly fimbriate or lobed; flowers in each involucre 5, very small; 
pedicels about 1 mm. long, very slightly villous: perianth-tube in 2 
1—1°5 mm. long, glabrous within except a few hairs at the mouth; 
lobes 6—8, very variable in size and shape, those of ¢ up to 2mm. 
jong, of ? to 1 mm., often lobed or ciliate, prominently gland- 
dotted. Stamens in 3 flowers 9—13, usually 12, glabrous, those of 
outer rows 2—3 mm. long with ovate anthers, those of inner rows 
shorter with a pair of large shortly stipitate glands, a third above the 
base of the filaments; rudimentary ovary ovoid; style slender; 
stigma cleft. Staminodes of 92 flowers 12—14, normally 12, those of 
the outer rows clavate acuminate, and 1 mm. long, those of inner rows 
subulate with a pair of sessile not very large glands at their middle. 
Ovary ovoid, glabrous; style thick, curved ; stigma capitate. Frust 
globose, 10 mm. in diam., half sunk in the hemispheric enlarged 
