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JOHORE: at Jafiaria, G. King!, Hullett!. Suxvaaporr: Reservoir 
woods and garden jungle, Ridley 5823!, 5569!.—Distriz. Sumatra, 
in Lampongs, 4.0. Forbes 1762!. 
This is the plant described in Fl. Br. Ind. as Litsea Blumii, Nees, and 
identified from the Java specimens in Herb. Kew. Koorders and Valeton have, 
however, pointed out that LZ. Blumii, Nees = L. ferruginea, Blume, is a 
different plant and after examining many specimens I fully agree in their 
opinion, so that a new name has to be found for this species. 
14. Nzowitsea, Merr. 
Evergreen trees. Leaves alternate, opposite, subopposite or 
verticillate, triple-nerved, usually areolate-reticulate, more or less 
lanceolate ; buds perulate. Flowers dioecious, in sessile umbellules, 
in clusters or short racemes in the axils of upper leaves, or on the 
branchlets between the nodes, the clusters with small bracts at their 
bases; involucral bracts 4, deciduous; flowers in each umbellule 
3—7, pedicels elongating ; perianth-lobes 4. Siamensin 3 flowers6; 
those of the two outer rows eglandular, the 2 inner biglandular, 
anther-cells all introrse or the lowerlateral. .Siaminodes of 2 flowers. 
6, arranged as the stamens, usually linear or linear-clavate. Ovary 
ovoid, style thick; stigma usually peltate, in ¢ flowers 0 or rudi- 
mentary. Fruit a globose berry seated on the slightly enlarged 
disciform perianth-tube and somewhat elongate pedicel; pericarp 
smooth; cotyledons hemispheric.—Distris. India and Malaya, one 
species or more extending to the Philippines and Australia: species 
about 30. 
Leaves alternate .. =c ac .. IL. N. zeylanica. 
Leaves opposite subopposite or verticillate 
Leaves glaucous beneath, softly villous on the 
nerves and petioles and also on the upper branch- 
lets and inflorescence .. se .. 2. N. villosa. 
Leaves densely and softly rusty-villous on the 
under surface, on the nerves of the upper sur- 
face, on the branchlets and inflorescence .. 3 N. mollissima. 
Leaves glabrous except when young, very pro- 
minenily areolate-reticulate ae .. 4, N. Kedahensis. 
1. NeouitsEA zEyLaNIca, Merrill in Philipp. Journ. Sc. I. 
Suppl. 57 (1906). An evergreen tree of variable character of 
foliage, flowers and fruit; branchlets slender, glabrous, greyish- 
brown, the uppermost sometimes minutely pubescent; innovations 
