184 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
PERak: King’s Collector 7789!, 8807!, 10113!. 
In my opinion this variety hardly differs from L. fulva, Boerl. = Tetran- 
thera fulva, Blume. 
51. Litsza GRACILIPES, Hook. f. in Fl. Br. Ind. V. 159 (1886). 
A sntall evergreen tree reaching a height of 15 to 20 m. and 40—50 
cm. in diam. of stem; branchlets slender, grey, uppermost nearly 
black, glabrous or minutely puberulous; leaf-buds lanceolate, grey- 
puberulous. Leaves pergamaceous, opposite or subopposite; elliptic 
or elliptic-oblong or -oblanceolate, acute or shortly acuminate at 
apex, sometimes mucronate, cuneate at base or sometimes almost 
rounded ; upper surface pale olive-brown, glabrous, lower grey, 
glabrous or when young slightly puberulous especially along the 
nerves; 10—16 cm. long, 3—6 cm. broad; midrib slender, slightly 
impressed above; main nerves 6—8 pairs, faint, distant, leaving the 
midrib at about 60° and curved to and along the margin; transverse 
nervules few, obscure as is the reticulation; petiole thick, 8—15 
mm. long, black. Flowers in umbellules on slender puberulous 
pedicels up to 15 mm. long, in axillary or lateral very short (5 mm.) 
racemes of about 1—10: involucral bracts 4, orbieular, concave, 
rusty-puberulous without, glabrous wtihin, the margins ciliate or the 
inner fimbriate, reflexed in flower; umbellules in ¢ 8 mm. in diam. 
in flower, in 2 5 mm.; flowers in each umbellule 3—4 on short 
pedicels: perianth-lobes 6, densely silky villous without, ovate-acute 
or oblong-obtuse, 2-3 mm. long in 3, 2mm. in 2, gland-dotted. 
Stamens of 3 flowers 9—12, normally 12, those of the outer rows 
long exsert, 5 mm. long with oblong anthers and slender slightly 
villous filaments, those of inner rows shorter and with a pair of 
reniform stipitate glands from the bases of the filaments; rudimen- 
tary ovary 0 or very small, conical, glabrous. Staminodes of 9 
flowers 12, those of the outer rows clavate-spathulate 1—1-5 mm. 
long, those of the inner rows clavate with a pair of large glands at 
the base. Ovary ovoid; style thick, curved; stigma peltate 2—3- 
lobed. Fruit cylindric-oblong, obtuse at apex, 15—17 mm. long, 
6—7 mm. in diam., seated on the obconic enlarged perianth 7 mm. 
Jong with pedicel and 7 mm. in diam. at mouth; pericarp glossy 
green spotted with white (Kunstler), yellowish and smooth when 
dry ; testa crustaceous ; cotyledons semi-cylindric. 
Pgerak: at Thaipeng, Wray 2101!; on low ground near Larut, 
King’s Cotlector, 5421!. 5455!. Matacca: Griffith K.D. 4311!. 
