Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 18] 
main nerves 18—21 pairs, fairly regular and parallel, slightly 
impressed above, those of narrower leaves starting at 50°--60°, those 
of broader ones at 60° to even 80° with the midrib, only slightly 
curving till near the margin where they fade in small loops; 
secondary nerves between the main ones occasional; transverse 
nervules faint and usually branched, enclosing the very minute but 
obscure areolate reticulation; petiole stout, 3—4 cm. long, chan- 
nelled above. Flowers in tomentose umbellules on short peduncles 
5—7 mm. long in 3, 4—5 in 9, in slender racemes up to 18 cm. 
long in ?,6cm. in ?, from the axils of fallen leaves on the previous 
year’s wood; rhachis angular, puberulous; raceme bracts ovate, 
very caducous; umbellules when open 10—12 mm. broad in 2, 
slightly less in @ ; involucral bracts 4—6, the inner small, the 
outer orbicular, concave, rusty-grey puberulous without, at length 
reflexed ; flowers in each umbellule 7; pedicels thick, short or 0, 
perianth tube thick, villous within, lobes 6, obovate, acute or 
obtuse, silky-villous without, glabrous within, 4—5 mm. long in 3, 
less in 2, lobes in 2 early deciduous. Siamens in 3g flowers 12, 
rarely more or less, those of the outer rows 5 mm. long with oblong 
anthers and slender slightly villous filaments sometimes mono- 
glandular, those of inner rows shorter and with a pair of large 
flattened sessile lobed glands near the bases of the filaments; upper 
anther-cells introrse, lower lateral; rudimentary ovary ovoid, with 
short glabrous style and lateral stigma. Siaminodes of 2 flowers 
usually 12, in the central flowers up to 15, those of outer rows 
oblong spathulate, glabrous, gland-dotted, 25 mm. long; those of 
inner rows subulate, villous behind, also 2°5 mm. long, with a pair 
of flattened oblong sessile glands near the base. Ovary ovoid, 
glabrous; style thick, curved; stigma capitate, reflexed, silky. Fruit 
depressed-globose, greenish-white, 15 mm. high, 25 mm. in diam., 
seated on the enlarged pustulate rough perianth-tube, which when 
quite young is nearly completely closed, when half ripe hemispheric, 
finally saucer-shaped and more or less spreading, 10 mm. high, 27 mm. 
in diam., the edges sharp; enlarged pedicel thick, flattened, curved, 
20 mm. long; pericarp shining, rugose when dry. Koord. & Val. 
Bijdr. X. 163. Tetranthera robusta, Nees Syst. Laur. 564. Lepida- 
denia robusta, Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. 1. i. 934. Cylicodaphne robusta, 
Blume Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. II. 11.; Meissn. in DC. Prodr. XV. 1. 
202. Laurus grandis, Wall. Cat. 2594 B. Alseodaphne? costalis, 
Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. II. 72 and Syst. Laur. 185; Meissn. in 
DC. Prodr. XV. 1. 29; Hook. f. in Fl. Br. Ind. V. 146. 
