Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 199 
6. LInDERA BIBRACTEATA, Boerl. Handl. Fl. Ned. Ind. III. 
146 (1900). A slender shrub reaching 3 to 45 m. in height, or a 
small tree; branchlets very slender, terete, the uppermost and the 
lanceolate leaf-buds silkily tawny-villous. Leaves chartaceous, alter- 
nate; ovate- or elliptic-lanceolate, long and sharply caudate-acumi- 
nate at apex, acute or rounded at base ; upper surface olive-brown, 
shining, glabrous except on the ribs; lower surface glaucescent, 
the ribs at the base very villous ; 7—11 cm. long, 2 to 3°5 cm. broad; 
ribs 3, the midrib extending to the extreme tip of the acumen, the 
side ribs starting from about 2 mm. above the base, and extending 
to nearly two-thirds of the length of the leaf; main nerves 1 to 3 
from the midrib above half its length, curving to the margin and join- 
ing in loops, outside the side ribs 10 or more short nerves arched 
near the margin; transverse nervules slender, prominent beneath, 
irregular, joined by a minutely areolate reticulation; petiole very 
slender, tawny-villous, 6—12 mm. long. lowers in sessile umbel- 
lules in axillary clusters; involucral bracts 2 to 4, the outer if 
present often small, glabrous except theciliate margins; flowers in 
each umbellule 1—3, usually 1; pedicels short, densely villous; 
perianth-lobes 6, oblong, obtuse, 2 mm. long, glabrous within, villous 
without, narrower and shorter and more acutein 2. Stamens of ¢ 
flowers 9 or more, usually 9; those of the two outer rows with obtuse 
anthers and villous filaments; those of the inner rows rather longer 
but similar and with a pair of rather large glands a little above the 
bases of the filaments; rudimentary ovary ovoid with short style and 
peltate stigma, Staminodes of 2 flowers also 9 to 12; those of the 
outer rows linear-clavate with villous filaments ; those of the inner 
rows similar and with a pair of stipitate ylands at the very base. 
Ovary ovoid, glabrous; style twisted; stigma capitate. Fruit a 
globose drupe up to about | cm. in diam. ; enlarged perianth-tube 
scarcely any; pedicel clavate, 1 cm. long. Koord. & Val. Bijdr. 
X. 233. Daphnidium bibracteatum, Nees Syst. Laur. 615; Blume 
Mus Bot. Lugd.-Bat. I. 351; Meissn. in DC. Prodr. X. 1. 229. D. 
acuminatum, Blume l.c.; Meissn.1.c. D. cesiwm, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat, 
1.1. 976 tn pari only. Laurus bibracteata, Bl. Bijdr. 553. L. acumi-: 
nata, and L. microphylla, Reinw.; Nees l.c. 611. 
PERAK : on Maxwell’s Hill, etc., up to 1200 m. alt., Wray 1193!, 
2945 !, 4162!; Larut at 450 to 600 m., King’s Collector 2641! ; Scorte- 
chint 640!; at Hermitage 900 m., Curtis 1332!; at Gunong Keladang, 
Ridley 9589! , at Taiping, Ridley 14515!.—_Distriz. Java (Bantam, 
Forbes 354!) 
