174 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
minute but obscure reticulation; petiole rather thick, black when 
dry, straight, about 2—2°5 cm. long. Flowers in umbellules on 
peduncles about 6 mm. long, rather distantly arranged along the 
slender angular glabrous or slightly puberulous rhachises of axillary 
or lateral or sometimes subterminal occasionally leafy racemes, 
reaching 10—25 cm. in lengthin ¢, barely 10 cm. in 2 ; raceme- 
bracts minute, very caducous; umbellules # when open 1 cm. 
broad, 2 narrower; involucral bracts 4, glabrous or very minutely 
puberulous, orbicular, concave, spreading in flower; flowers in each 
umbellule 5—6; perianth-tube funnel-shaped, 2°5 mm. long, villous 
inside; lobes 6—9, unequal, membranous, nearly glabrous, usually 
obovate acute, 3°5 mm. long or lessin 9. Stamens of 3 flowers 9 to 
14 or perhaps more, normally (apparently) 9, glabrous ; those of the 
outer rows about 4 mm. long with ovate often apiculate anthers and 
slender filaments, sometimes bearing glands at the base; those of 
the inner rows shorter with a pair of large more or less reniform 
lobed stipitate glands near the base; rudimentary ovary very 
small, ovoid, with minute style, enclosed in the perianth-tube. 
Staminodes of 9? flowers 12—16, those of outer rows spathulate, 
gland-dotted, those of inner rows subulate with a pair of large 
sessile glands about halfway up. Ovary ovoid, glabrous; style very 
thick, curved; stigma peltate. Fruit not known. 
PENANG : at cooly lines, Government Hill, at 360 m. alt., Curtis 
2449!. Perak: in dense jungle near Larut at 90—150 m. alt., King’s 
Collector 6161!: Scortechini 162!. 
48. LiTsEA NIDULARIS, Gamblein Kew Bull. 365 (1910). A large 
evergreen tree reaching 25—30 m. in height and 90—120 cm. in 
diam. of stem; branchlets stout, pale brown, smooth, striate when 
dry, with prominent leaf-scars; buds ovate, acuminate, glabrous, 
1 mm. long. Leaves coriaceous, alternate, glabrous; oblanceolate 
or elliptic-obovate, rounded and sometimes emarginate at apex, long 
cuneate, alternate or sometimes rounded at base; upper surface 
shining, lower bluish-green when fresh, reddish glaucescent when 
dry ; margins much recurved ; 10—25 cm. long, 4—10 cm. broad ; 
midrib moderately stout, channelled above, much raised beneath ; 
main nerves 10—12 pairs, impressed above, at from 50°—60° with 
the midrib, at once curved to and along the margin where they end 
in a faint series of loops; transverse nervules rather distant, straight 
or arched, often branched, enclosing the prominent minutely 
