198 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
or lateral ferruginous-puberulous racemes 10--15 mm. long, the 
rhachis angular; involucral bracts 4, hemispheric, deciduous, 
densely ferruginous-puberulous ; flowers in each umbellule about 12; 
pedicels short; perianth-lobes ovate-oblong, villous within, 1-5 mm. 
long. Stamens of ¢ flowers 9; those of Ist and 2nd rows ovate, acute, 
on villous filaments; those of 3rd row similar and with a pair of large 
‘glands near the base; rudimentary ovary small, glabrous, conoidal, 
the style short and stigma small. Staminodes of 2 flowers not 
known. J ruii a globose berry, 8—10 mm. in diam., minutely apicu- 
late: pericarp thin. Koord. & Val. Bijdr. X. 236. Aperula poly- 
antha, Bl. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. 366, 367; Meissn. in DC. Prodr. 
XV. 1. 241. Polyadenia polyantha, Nees Syst. Laur. 577; Mig. FI. 
Ind. Bat. I. 961. Laurus polyantha, Bl. Bijdr. 554. 
PERAK: at Bujong Malacca, Scortechini 148!—Distr1. Java. 
5. LINDERA PIPERICARPA, Boerl. Handl. Fl. Ned. Ind. III. 147 
(1900). A small tree reaching 9—12 m.in height ; branchlets slender, 
nearly black, uppermost puberulous. Leaves membranous, alter- 
nate; lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate at apex, acute or 
rounded at base; upper surface shining, olive-green, glabrous except 
on the midrib, lower glaucescent, puberulous especially on the 
nerves; 6—15 cm. long, 2—4 cm. broad: midrib slender, black, 
pubescent; main nerves 8—12 pairs, curving outwards to join in 
loops near the margin ; transverse nervules straight, fairly prominent ; 
reticulation obscure; petiole slender, 1—2 cm. long. lowers in 
umbellules on slender 5—10 mm. long peduncles in clusters or short 
grey-puberulous racemes, scarcely 1 cm. long, from the internodes 
of the branchlets; bracts grey-puberulous, deciduous; involucral 
bracts 4, semi-orbicular, concave, glabrous without, villous within, 
2—3 mm. long, gland-dotted; flowers in each umbellule about 6; 
perianth-lobes ovate, obtuse, villous at the base within. Stamens 
‘of ¢ flowers 9 with 2-celled anthers; those of the lst and 2nd rows 
1 mm. long, with slender pubescent filaments ; those of the 3rd row 1°5 
mm. long, with a pair of rather large reniform glands about the middle 
of the filaments; rudimentary ovary small, conoidal. Staminodes 
of 2 flowers not known. /ruii a globose berry, the size of a small 
pea (4—5 mm.in diam.) shortly beaked, black, seated on the slightly 
enlarged perianth-tube. Avperula % pipericarpa Meissn, in DC. Prodr. 
XV.1. 242. Polyadenia pipericarpa, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I. 1. 962. 
PERAK : Scortechint 290!; in rocky localities in forest at 900— 
1200 m. alt., King’s Collector 6948!—DistRis. Sumatra. 
