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JOHORE: at Tanjong Kupang, Ridley 6457!.— Distris. Borneo 
(Haviland 3327!, Kurz! 3329!). 
52. LirsEA UJONGENSIS, Gamble in Kew Bull. 366 (1910). An 
evergreen shrub or small tree reaching 6 to 9 m. in height; branch- 
lets rather slender, densely rusty-tomentose. Leaves membranous 
to chartaceous, opposite or subopposite; oblanceolate, rather 
abruptly cuspidate acuminate at apex, cuneate or attenuate at base 
which is slightly rounded ; upper surface shining, glabrous except the 
tomentose midrib and nerves, lower surface rusty-tomentose on the 
nerves and nervules, minutely srey-pubescent between them; 12—22 
em. long, 5—7 cm. broad; midrib slightly raised above, more so 
beneath; main nerves 10—15 pairs, slender, curving upwards to near 
the margin; transverse nervules irregular, obscure, as is the reti- 
culation; petiole rather stout, short, rusty-tomentose 5—8 mm. 
long. Flowers in nearly sessile umbellules in very short 2—3-flowered 
axillary fascicles; perianth-lobes in 2 about 1 mm. long villous 
outside prominently gland-dotted, more or less persistent in fruit as 
are the linear glabrous staminodes, the outer ones 1°5 mm. long, 
the inner three 1 mm. long witha pair of large glands at their base; 3 
flowers unknown. Fruit ellipsoid, 10 mm. long 8 mm. in diameter, 
seated on the disciform enlarged perianth-tube 4—5 mm. in diam. 
and 3—4 mm. high including the enlarged vilious pedicel: style 
and stigma more or less persistent ; pericarp crustaceous, black when 
dry. 
NzeGRi SEMBILAN : Sungei Ujong, Ridley’s Collectors 1904!, 1942!, 
2305!, 2316!, 5846!. Manacca: at Gunong Sedang, etc., Rrdley, 
3172!, 5848!; allin Herb. Singap. 
Var. nervosa, Gamble. Leaves subsessile, thickly pubescent, 
especially on the nerves, rounded at base; the nerves, transverse 
nervules and reticulation prominent. Ovary ovoid with long style 
and peltate 2-lobed stigma. 
PEARK: at Gunong Batu Pateh, lower camp, Wray 1129!; 
Scortechini 2097! 
53. LITSEA SESSILIFLORA, Hook. f. in Fl. Br. Ind. V. 160 (1886), 
A small tree; branchlets as thick as a goose-quill, the uppermost 
subquadrangular densely rusty-tomentose ; budsovoid, short. Leaves 
chartaceous, opposite, more or less bifarious ; oblong-oblanceolate, 
obtuse at apex with a short acuminate point, cuneate or attenuate 
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