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irregular and branched, enclosing an irregular reticulation ; petiole 
rather slender, 1—2 cm. long, channelled above. Flowers in 
umbellules on rather stout peduncles 5—6 mm. long in grey-puberu- 
lous elongate often leafy racemes up to 17 cm. long in @, axillary 
to the upper leaves or the scars of fallen leaves; rhachis angled ; 
raceme bracts small, ovate, very caducous; umbellules of # when 
open 8 mm. in diam. ; involucral bracts 4—5, the fifth when present 
ovate the rest orbicular concave, reflexed in flower; flowers in each 
umbellule 6; pedicels slender, 2 mm. long; perianth-lobes thin, 
variable in size and shape, usually oblong, acute or obtuse, villous 
without, glabrous within, gland-dotted, ciliate, 2°5—4 mm. long. 
Stamens in 3 flowers 12, exsert, those of the outer rows 4 mm. long 
with oblong obtuse anthers and slender slightly villous filaments, 
those of the inner rows rather shorter with acute anthers and a pair 
of reniform lobed stipitate glands at the bases of the filaments ; 
anther cells all introrse or the lower lateral; rudimentary ovary 
very small with slender style and bifid stigma. Staminodes of Q 
flowers and fruit not known. Tetranthera Panamonja, Ham. in 
Wall. Cat. 2553 A. B.; Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. II. 67 and Syst. 
Laur. 561, 677; Meissn. in DC. Prodr. XV. 1.197; Kurz For. FI. 
II. 302. 
PERAK: Waterloo new road, at 450 m. alt., Curtis 2694!. 
Manacca: at Hulu Chambong, Derry 1002!—Distris. India, 
(Assam), Burma. 
This seems to be var. 6 longiracemosa, Meissn. |. c. 
42. Litrsra Curtisit, Gamble in Kew Bull. 363 (1910). A large 
evergreen tree with spreading branches reaching 24 —30 m. in height 
and 60—90 cm. in diam.; branchlets rather stout, stiff, sharply 
angled, almost winged, black when dry; buds lanceolate, grey- 
puberulous. Leaves submembranous, alternate; elliptic or elliptic- 
obovate, rounded and very short acuminate, sometimes emarginate 
at apex, shortly attenuate and subcuneate at base ; both surfaces 
glabrous, upper olive-brown to nearly black when dry, lower subglau- 
cous; 15—26 cm. long, 6—11 cm. broad; midrib stout, broad, 
immersed above, raised beneath; main nerves 13—15 pairs, plane 
or slightly impressed above, slightly raised beneath, subparallel, 
starting at about 60° with the midrib, at first straight then curving 
to and along the midrib and breaking up in faint loops; transverse 
nervules distant, straight or slightly arched, very faint, enclosing the 
