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similar but shorter and with a pair of rather large cordate stipitate 
glands at their bases. Ovary ovoid; style densely villous; stigma 
capitate. Stamens of 3 flowers and fruit not seen. 
Perak: at lower camp Gunong Batu Pateh at 1000 m. alt., 
Wray 931! 
4, NEOLITSEA KEDAHENSIS, Gamble in Kew Bull. 367 (1910) and 
172 (1911). An evergreen tree; branchlets slender, terete, uppermost 
in verticils, densely rusty-villous as are the leaf-buds. Leaves coriace- 
ous, verticillate, prominently areolately pitted ; elliptic-lanceolate, cus- 
pidate-acuminate at apex, narrowed at base; upper surface glabrous 
except when young and then rusty-villous on the ribs and nerves, 
lower surface strigosely villous when young especially on the ribs 
and nerves and margin, afterwards glabrous; margin cartilaginous, 
recurved; 6—11 cm. long, 2—3°5 cm. broad; midrib slender, raised 
on both surfaces; side ribs slender, raised, starting at about 6 mm. 
above the base, ending a little above half-way in lessening slender 
loops which join the lower main nerves; main nerves 3—5 pairs, 
slender, curving obliquely to near the margin and there joining in 
slender loops; transverse nervules many, obscure, arched, enclosing 
the deeply pitted reticulation; petiole slender, 5—6 mm. long, 
pubescent when young. Flowers in sessile umbellules in dense 
axillary or lateral clusters supported by short obtuse bracts; in- 
volucral bracts 4, orbicular, concave, ciliate or fimbriate on the 
margins, 5—7-nerved, densely rusty-tomentose without, glabrous 
within ; flowers in each umbellule 5, on short long-villous peduncles ; 
perianth-lobes 4 (3 only) ovate, obtuse or acuminate, densely 
villous, 15—2 mm. long. Stamens in @ flowers 6, the 4 outer 
with oblong anthers and slender glabrous filaments, the 2 inner shorter 
and with a pair of reniform stipitate glands at the bases of the fila- 
ments; rudimentary ovary ovoid, sparsely villous ; style slender; 
stigma capitate. Staminodes of 2 flowers and frut¢ unknown. 
KerpaH: on Kedah Peak at 900 m. alt., Ridley 3590!, 5940! 
Tribe VII. LAURE. 
15. LinpERa, Thunb. 
Shrubs or trees, often deciduous; buds naked or perulate. 
Leaves alternate or subopposite, penni-veined or 3—5-ribbed, chartace- 
ous or coriaceous. lowers dicecious, in pedunculate or sessile umbel- 
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