Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 191 
V. 307; Cooke Bomb. FI. II. 540; Prain Beng. Plants902. JL. oblonga, 
Nees Syst. Laur. 678; Wight Ic. t. 1845. J. striolata, Blume l.c. 
347; Meissn. l.c. 223. L. foliosa, Nees l.c. 622: Blume l.c. 346; 
Meissn. l.c. 222 (excl. var. 8.) ; Kurz For. Fl. II. 306. JL. furfuracea, 
Nees l.c. 625; Blume l.c. 347; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I. 975. L. scrobicu- 
lata, Meissn. l.c. 223. L. trinervia, Juss. in Dict. Sc. Nat. X XVII. 
79. Laurus Cassia, Linn. ex Wight in Hook. Journ. Bot. IT. (1840) 
336. L. involucrata, Vahl in Herb. Juss. ex Lamk. Dict. IIT. 445; 
Roxb. Cor. Pl. IT. 46, t. 187. 
Prenane: Wallich 2568 b!; Curtis 443!, 468!; at Batu Feringgi, 
Ridley!. Province WeEuiLESLEY: at Bukit Turu, Ridley 6956!. 
Perak: Scortechini 1085!. Matacca : on Mount Ophir, etc., Griffith 
4331!; Maingay K.D., 1255!; at Brisu, Holmberg 759!. Panane: 
at Praman and Kwala Pahang, Ridley! (c.f. also Ridley in Trans. 
Linn. Soc. 2nd Ser. III.541). Smveaporze: Wallich 2568a!; at Changi, 
Pulau Ilbin and Bedoh, Ridley 3604a!,4811!, 4819!, 8406 !.—DistRrB. 
India (in most hilly regions), Burma (Martaban Hills), Ceylon, 
Borneo (Mount Kinabalu at 2500 m., Haviland 1128! c.f. Stapf in 
Trans. Linn. Soc. 2nd Ser. IV. 220), Philippines Queensland. 
2. NEOLITSEA VILLOSA, Gamble. An evergreen tree reaching 
12—18 m. in height and 35—50 cm. in diam. of stem; branch- 
lets moderately stout, grey, the uppermost densely grey-tawny 
puberulous; branch buds ovate, perulate, rusty puberulous, the 
scales obtuse; leaf-buds in 9 trees smaller. Leaves coriaceous, 
opposite subopposite or subverticillate, the verticils usually of 5; 
lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, long and sharply acuminate at apex, 
acuminate at base; upper surface glabrous, shining, olive-brown 
when dry, minutely areolate-reticulate, lower bluish-green when 
fresh, glaucous when dry, glabrous except the ribs and nerves which 
are softly rusty-villous; margins slightly undulate, recurved; 
10—15 cm. long, 3—5 cm. broad; midrib rather slender, impressed 
above and keeled, raised beneath; side ribs from about 7 mm. above 
the base, oblique, impressed above, reaching to about half-way up and 
then ending in diminishing small loops which connect them with the 
lowest pair of nerves; nervules outside them 10 or more, looped; 
main nerves 3—5 pairs, prominent, sometimes branched, impressed 
above, oblique, joined by loops near the margin; transverse nervules 
many, arched, fairly prominent enclosing the areolate reticulation; 
petiole rather slender, twisted, pubescent, 10—12 mm. long, the 
upper part bordered by the decurrent margins of the blade. Flowers 
