186 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
at base; glabrous above, except the midrib which is slightly raised 
and tomentose, other nerves being deeply sunk, rusty-pubescent 
beneath; 15 —30 cm. long, 4—10 cm. broad; midrib slender on upper, 
stout on lower, surface where very prominent; main nerves 16—20 
pairs, impressed above, very prominently raised beneath, straight or 
not at first then curved to meet (all but the lowest) in prominent 
marginal loops; secondary nerves few, transverse nervules distant 
but prominent, as is also the reticulation ; petiole very stout, 
tomentose, 5—15 mm. long. Flowers in densely tawny-pubescent 
umbellules sessile in the axils of the leaves or of fallen leaves, solitary 
or crowded, 6 mm. in diam.in 3, @2 smaller; involucral bracts 4, 
orbicular, concave, 4 mm. in diam. (3), smaller in 9? ; perianth- 
tube funnel-shaped, 2—3 mm. long; perianth-lobes 6, ovate, obtuse, 
broader inthe 3 than inthe 9. Stamens of & flowers 9; those of 
the outer 2 rows eglandular, 2°5 mm. long, with elliptic obtuse anthers 
and slender villous filaments ; those of the inner row shorter, 1-5 mm., 
with a pair of large nearly or quite sessile glands at the bases of the 
filaments ; rudimentary ovary ovoid with thick style and small 
bifid stigma. Staminodes of 2 flowers also 9; those of the 2 outer 
rows clavate villous 1:25 mm. long; those of the inner row spathu- 
late, 1 mm. long, with a pair of large glabrous subsessile glands at 
the base. Ovary ovoid, glabrous; style thick, curved at top; stigma 
peltate, bifid. Fruit (young only) ovoid, at least 7 mm. long, apicu- 
late, seated on the funnel-shaped enlarged perianth-tube which is 
5 mm. broad at the mouth and carries the remains of the perianth- 
lobes and staminodes ; pericarp thin, smooth. 
PENANG: on Government Hill, Maingay K.D. 1511! and Ridley 
7917!; in Moniot’s road, Curtis 649!. JoHoRE: at Gunong Taning, 
Lake and Kelsall 4085 !—Distris. Sumatra; Borneo (Beccari 1545). 
Beccari’s specimens from Borneo have the leaves smaller and not so 
prominently marked by sunk nerves as the others, and they are more pubescent 
beneath, but the flowers (2) agree. In Maingay’s specimens the sunk 
nerves and nervules make a close imitation of the well-known ‘ crocodile skin ’ 
pattern. 
54, LitsEA FERRUGINEA, Blume Bijdr. 561 (1825). A large tree 
reaching more than 30 m. in height and a considerable girth (9 m. 
diam.—King’s Collector); wpper branchlets thick, striate, angular, 
densely dark ferruginous-tomentose; buds ovoid with densely tomen- 
tose scales. Leaves coriaceous, alternate or sometimes subopposite, 
obovate or obovate-oblong, acute and mucronate at apex, cuneately 
