196 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
pedunculate umbellules. It may prove to be a separate species, when ~ 
flowers and fruit are known. 
I believe this species to be identical with Lindera lucida, Boerl. Handb. 
Fl. Ned. Ind. III. 147; Koord. & Val. Bijdr. X. 238, ete. I have spent 
some time over the question, which must have previously been considered by 
the author of the FI. Br. Ind., and in deference to him I leave ‘ malaccensis ’ 
as the specific name, though I fear that it may have to give way to ‘lucida.’ 
2. LinpERA WRayI, Gamble in Kew Bull. 367 (1910). A small 
tree; branchlets moderately stout, smooth, black when dry ; innova- 
tions and lanceolate leaf-buds ferruginous-puberulous. Leaves chare 
taceous or almost membranous, alternate; obovate or elliptic- 
obovate, or -oblanceolate, long cuspidate-acuminate at apex, occasion- 
ally rounded or even emarginate, long-cuneate-acuminate at base; 
both surfaces glabrous, the upper nearly black when dry, somewhat 
bullate, the lower reddish; 10—18 cm. long, 3—6 cm. broad; midrib 
slender, slightly impressed; main nerves 8—14 pairs, impressed 
above, curved upwards to join in loops near the margin; transverse 
nervules prominent beneath, regular, arched; reticulation obscure; 
petiole slender, 8—18 mm. long. Flowers in umbellules on slender 
glabrous peduncles 5—7 mm. long in short axillary or lateral racemes 
about 7 mm. long; involucra] bracts 4, hemispheric, glabrous, deci- 
duous; flowers in each umbellule (¢) about 7, ( 2 ) about 8; pedicels 
very short; perianth-lobes ovate acute, often lobed, 1—2 mm. long, 
smallerin ° thanin ¢, glabrous. Stamens in ¢& flowers 9, slender, 
glabrous, 2mm. long; those of Ist and 2nd rows with slender fila- 
ments and obtuse anthers; those of 3rd row similar but less obtuse 
and with a pair of large angular glands a little above the bases of 
the filaments ; rudimentary ovary small, conoidal. Staminodes of 2 
flowers 9, very minute; those of Ist and 2nd rows linear clavate, 
glabrous; those of 3rd row subulate with a pair of large angular 
glands about the middle of the filaments. Ovary ovoid; style long, 
thick, curved; stigma peltate, lobed. Fruit (immature) an ovoid 
drupe 7—10 mm. long on a much thickened pedicel, pericarp 
smooth. 
PeRAK: on Gunong Batu Pateh 1300 m. alt., on Gunong Brum- 
ber and Gunong Iras, 1500 m. alt., Gunong Bubu, 2000 m. alt., Wray 
399!, 1564!, 3866!, 4149!; at Bujong Malacca, Ridley 9706!; Scor- 
techini!. 
Scortechini’s specimens and Wray 399 have thinner more reddish leaves 
than the others, but I see no reason to separate them. Wray 1564 is a 
