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PERAK : in dense jungle on hills at 150—300 m. alt. near Larut, 
King’s Collector 4737!. Matacoa: Maingay K.D. 1264!, 1273!. 
47. LitszA NORONH#, Blume Bijdr. 56 (1825). A small ever- 
green tree reaching 12 m. in height and 20 cm. in diam. of stem, 
more usually a stout shrub 3—5 m. high; branchlets stout, with 
pale brown smooth bark, the uppermost with the lanceolate buds 
and innovations silky-puberulous. Leaves subcoriaceous, alternate ; 
elliptic-oblong or-obovate, obtuse or shortly apiculate at apex, cuneate 
or attenuate at base; upper surface when dry olive brown, dull, 
glabrous, lower grey- or reddish-glaucous, minutely puberulous or 
glabrous ; 20—45 cm. long, 8—17 cm. broad; midrib moderately 
stout, slightly impressed above, much raised beneath; main nerves 
10—16 pairs, impressed above raised beneath, rather irregular, 
starting at about 60° with the midrib, at first nearly straight, then 
curved to and along the margin and then joined by a series of 
decreasing loops; transverse nervuies irregular, distant, branched, 
enclosing the rather largely areolate reticulation; petiole stout, 
curved, 1—4 cm. long, channelled above. Flowers in tomentose 
umbellules on peduncles 5—15 mm. long or longer, usually distantly 
arranged along slender tawny-pubescent racemes 5—20 cm. long the 
2? shorter than the ¢ ; racemes axillary or lateral or on older branch- 
lets in the axils of fallen leaves; raceme bracts ovate or nearly 
orbicular and caducous; involucral bracts 5, orbicular, concave, 
3-nerved, ciliate or the inner fimbriate, glabrous within, recurved in 
flower; flowers in each umbellule 5—6; pedicels 2—3 mm. long in 
3,0in 2; perianth-tube 0 or very short in ¢, 2mm. long in @, 
lobes oblong, obtuse or acute, nearly glabrous, variable in number 
(5—7) and shape, 3—5 mm. longin ¢,2mm.in 2. Stamensin ¢ 
flowers variable in number, from 9—12, normally 9, those of the 
outer rows long exsert, 6 mm. long with obovate anthers and slender 
villous filaments sometimes glandular at base, those of the inner 
rows shorter, with smaller anthers and a pair of large glabrous lobed 
glands at the bases of the filaments; rudimentary ovary 0, or if 
present very small with capitate stigma. Staminodes of 2 flowers 
also variable in number and arrangement, 9—12, normally 9, those 
of the outer rows slenderly clavate 1°5—2 mm. long with villous 
filaments, those of the inner rows short, 6 mm. long, subulate 
with a pair of large lobed glands asin ¢@, usually flattened. Ovary 
ovoid, style much curved, thick; stigma thick, peltate, deeply 
lobed. Fruit (unripe) small, rounded, laterally compressed, broader 
