192 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
in sessile umbellules in clusters of usually 4 to 6 on the upper 
branchlets between the nodes; umbellule buds globose, 5—6 mm. in 
diameter, closely grey-tawny pubescent; involucral bracts 4, orbi- 
cular, concave; flowers in each umbellule 4—5 (buds of ¢ only); 
perianth-lobes 4, oblong, densely silky-villous without. glabrous 
within. Stamens of 3 flowers 6, the 4 of the outer rows with oblong 
anthers and slender filaments villous only at the base, the 2 of the 
inner row similar with a pair of large orbicular stipitate glands at 
the base; rudimentary (?) ovary ovoid; style curved; stigma capitate. 
Staminodes of 2 flowers linear clavate. Fruit globose, 10 mm. in 
diam., seated on the flattened subquadrangular enlarged perianth- 
tube, villous within, 3 mm. in diam.; enlarged pedicel stout, 4—5 
mm. long; pericarp bright red, wrinkled when dry. Litsea villosa, 
Blume Mus. Bot. Lugd-Bat. i. 349; Meissn. in DC. Prodr. XV. 1. 
221. 
PERAK : in dense forest on tops of high mountains in Larut at 
1200—1400 m. alt., King’s Collector 6979!, 7011!.—Distris. Ambo- 
ina, Philippine Islands. 
3. NEOLITSEA MOLLISSIMA, Gamble in Kew Bull. 366 (1910) and 
172 (1911). Asmall evergreen tree; branchlets moderately stout, 
rounded, grey, the uppermost softly and closely rusty-villous ; leaf- 
buds ovate, perulate, densely villous. Leavescoriaceous, opposite sub- 
opposite or subverticillate, the verticils usually of 3 ; lanceolate, long 
acuminate at apex, acute at base; upper surface shining, olive-brown 
whendry, glabrous except the rusty-villous midrib; lower surface 
densely and softly rusty-villous, the nerves especially, greyish between 
the nerves; margins slightly recurved; 9—12 cm. long, 2°5—3°5 cm. 
broad; midrib stout, raised on the upper surface; side pair of ribs 
starting from about 5 mm. above the base and ending half-way up 
or a little further; main nerves 3—4 pairs, the pairs subopposite, 
very oblique, slightly impressed above, raised beneath; transverse 
nervules many, arched, obscure, enclosing the regular minutely 
areolate reticulation vis‘ble only with the lens; petiole stout, rusty- 
villous, 6—8 mm. long. Flowers in densely rusty-villous sessile 
umbellules, 1—3 together, axillary or on the branchlets between the 
upper nodes; involucral bracts very caducous; flowers in each 
umbellule apparently 5 (2 only) on very short villous pedicels; 
perianth-tube densely long silky-villous within as are the 4 lanceolate 
perianthlobes. Staminodes of 2 flowers 6; those of the two outer 
rows linear-clavate, 1-5—2 mm. long, sparsely villous, the inner pair 
