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areolate reticulation; petiole stout, 15—25 mm. long. Flowers in 
umbellules on slender glabrous peduncles up to 15 mm. long, 
distantly arranged in slender racemes about 10 cm. long in 2, 
scarcely 4.cm. in @, axillary or lateral from above the scars of fallen 
leaves ; umbellules when open 8—10mm. indiam. in 3 ,5mm. in ? ; 
involucral bracts 4, glabrous, orbicular, concave, reflexed in flower; 
flowers in each umbellule 4—5 on very short (2 mm.) pedicels ; 
perianth-lobes 6—8 in 3 , 4—6 in 2 , oblong, acute or obtuse, sparsely 
villous, 3mm. long. Stamens of 3 flowers 12—16, normally 12, those 
of the outer rows 5 mm. long with subquadrate anthers and slender 
sparsely villous filaments; those of the inner rows shorter with 
obovate anthers and a pair of large lobed shortly stipitate glands 
near the bases of the filaments, lower anther-cells lateral; rudi- 
mentary ovary conical, glabrous, long, those of inner rows shorter 
thicker with a pair of large nearly orbicular stipitate glands at the 
base. Ovary ovoid; style rather thick; stigma large, peltate, lobed. 
Fruit waxy, deep yellow in colour, depressed globose, apiculate, 14 
mm. in diam., 7—8 mm. high, almost included in the rather shallow 
nest-like cupule formed by the enlarged perianth-tube, the cupule 
rugose without, under 10 mm. high and 18—20 mm. in outer 
diameter, the margins incurved leaving an orifice 10—12 mm. in 
diameter ; enlarged pedicel clavate, flattened, 1 cm. long; pericarp 
shining, smooth when dry. 
PrenaneG: on Government Hill, 650 m., Curtis 3279! in herb. 
Penang. Prrak: in dense jungle near Larut at 250—300 m. alt., 
King’s Collector 6885!; at Hulu Kenat, Scortechini 759!. . 
44, LitseA MEGACARPA, Gamble in Kew Bull. 364 (1910). A 
large spreading evergreen tree reaching 18 to 24 m. in height and 
occasionally 30 or even 36 m., with a considerable diameter of 
stem ; branchlets stout, brown, somewhat shining, with prominent 
leaf-scars and occasional lenticels, the uppermost angular, often 
nearly black when dry, glabrous as are the lanceolate buds. Leaves 
coriaceous, alternate, glabrous; elliptic-oblong, or -obovate, obtuse 
and apiculate rarely cuspidate at apex, attenuate at base for the 
lower two-thirds sometimes rounded, often unequal; upper surface 
dark green and glossy when fresh, shining olive-brown when dry, 
lower paler, cinereous when dry ; margins slightly recurved ; 15—-45 
em. long, 7—20 cm. broad; midrib stout, immersed above, raised 
beneath; main nerves 10 to 15 pairs, rather distant, irregular, 
