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182 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
PERAK: in dense jungle on low hills at 90—150 m. elevation 
near Goping and Larut, King’s Collector 5781!, 5878!, 6167!, 8266!. 
SELANGOR: at Gua Batu, Ridley 8529!. SrncarorE: Wallich 2594b!. 
Distars. Burma (Griffith 4326!). 
49. LitTsEA SARAWACENSIS, Gamble in Kew Bull. 365 (1910). A 
small tree (?); branchlets slender, pale brown, glabrous, uppermost 
and buds only minutely tawny-puberulous. Leaves chartaceous, 
opposite and subopposite; elliptic -or oblong-lanceolate, cuspidate- 
acuminate at apex, acute at base; upper surface reddish-brown 
when dry, smooth but scarcely shining, glabrous, lower paler, also 
glabrous; 8—14 cm. long, 2—4 cm. broad; midrib slender; main 
nerves 5—7 pairs, oblique, curved upwards to near the margin, and 
meeting in prominent arched loops, slightly impressed above; trans- 
verse nervules horizontal, irregular, obscure as is the reticulation; 
petiole 5—6 mm. long. Flowers in peduncled (2—5 mm., very 
slender) umbellules in short axillary or lateral racemes of about 5 
and scarcely 4 mm. long; umbellules in bud 3 mm. broad, with 4 
orbicular nearly glabrous concave involucral bracts about 2 mm. in 
diam. ; flowers in each umbellule 5, sessile in bud; perianth-tube 
short, densely villous within, lobes 6, ovate, subacute, ciliate, 
15mm. long. Stamens of 3 flowers (in bud only) 9, those of the 
2 outer rows as long as the perianth-lobes and with slender slightly 
villous filaments, those of the inner row much shorter, with smaller 
anthers and with 2 large sessile glands near the base which is sur- 
rounded with villous hairs; rudimentary ovary very small or 0. 
Staminodes of 2 flowers not seen. Fruié (immature) ovoid apiculate, 
seated on the obconic enlarged perianth-tube which is glabrous 
and smooth at the margins, the lobes deciduous ; pericarp smooth, 
black when dry. 
SINGAPORE: in reservoir woods, Ridley 4817!.—DistRis. Borneo, 
Sarawak, Beccari 905!, 1475!, 1708!, 1796!; near Kuching, Hamiand 
3077!. 3646:. 
50. LirsEA LANcIFOLIA, Hook. f. in Fl. Br. Ind. V. 159 (1886). 
A bush or small tree reaching 12 m. in height and 20—30 cm. in 
diam. of stem; branchlets slender, pale greyish-brown, uppermost 
and innovations grey- or rusty-tomentose; buds lanceolate. Leaves 
membranous or chartaceous, opposite or subopposite or rarely alter- 
nate; oblong, elliptic-oblong or lanceolate, acuminate often abruptly 
and sometimes obtusely at apex, often mucronate, cuneate attenuate 
