190 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
golden-tawny-pubescent. Leaves coriaceous or subcoriaceous, alter- 
nate; elliptic or elliptic-ovate or -lanceolate, acuminate often 
abruptly at apex with obtuse points, acute or rounded at base ; 
glabrous un both surfaces except sometimes when very young, the 
lower surface glaucous or not; margin usually recurved; 6—14 cm. 
long, 3—6 cm. broad; midrib slender, raised on both surfaces, side 
ribs from about 5—8 mm. above the base, curving upwards to dis- 
appear halfway up or a little higher; main nerves irregular, 2—5 
pairs, obscure as are the arched transverse nervules; reticulation 
areolate, sometimes prominently, more usually only under the lens; 
petiole slender, 1—2 cm. long, curved. lowers in sessile umbellules, 
in short axillary or lateral (on internodes of upper branchlets) 
fascicles or racemes up to 10 mm. in length, the raceme bracts 
orbicular, ciliate ; umbellule buds globose, minutely tawny-puberulous 
or glabrescent, 3—5 mm. in diam.; involucral bracts 4, the 2 outer 
orbicular, concave, the 2 inner more or less obovate; flowers in each 
umbellule 3 to 5 or even to 7, on silky-villous pedicels finally reach- 
ing 5mm.longin #,orl-‘5mm.in Q ; perianth lobes oblong, obtuse 
or acute, gland-dotted, sparsely villous outside, about 3 mm. long. 
Stamens in 3 flowers 6, ‘exsert; those of the outer rows with small 
subquadrate anthers and slender filaments which are glabrous or 
slightly villous, 4—5 mm. long; those of the inner row similar but 
shorter, and with a pair of large reniform emarginate stipitate glands 
about half-way up the filaments (at base in bud!); rudimentary 
ovary 0 or very small with slender style. Staminodes of 2 flowers 
also 6; those of the outer rows linear villous, 2 mm. long; those of 
the inner row linear-clavate, 1-5 mm. long, with a pair of large reni- 
form or cordate glands at their bases. Ovary ovoid, glabrous; style 
stout, twisted; stigma large, lateral. Fruzt globose, 8 to 15 mm. in 
diam., seated on the disciform enlarged perianth tube, the disk 
4 mm. in diam., crenate on the margins, the lobes quite deciduous ; 
enlarged pedicel clavate, 5—7 mm. long; pericarp smooth, shining; 
cotyledons hemispheric. Tetradenia zeylanica, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. 
Rar. II. 64 and III. 30. 7. foliosa, Nees and 7. furfuracea, Nees l.c. 
Tetranthera foliosa, pulcherrima (in part) and furfuracea, Wall. Cat. 
2563, 2567, 2568. Litsea zeylanica, C. and Fr. Nees in Amen. Bot. 
Bonn. Fasc. I. 58 (1823) t. 5; Nees Syst. Laur. 626; Meissn. in DC. 
Prodr. XV. 1. 226; Blume Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. I. 346, Wight Ic. tt. 
132, 1844; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 294; Dalz. and Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 223; 
Brandis For. Fl. 382 and Ind. Trees 540; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. V. 
178; Trimen Fl. Ceyl. III. 454: Benth. & von Muell. Fl. Austral. 
