Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 201 
obtuse. Leaves coriaceous, alternate; ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 
long acuminate at apex, acute at base; upper surface olive-brown 
‘when dry, shining or dull, glabrous except on the midrib, lower 
surface tawny-villous when young, glaucous when old, margins 
recurved; 4—7 cm. long, 2—3 cm. broad; ribs 3, midrib stout, 
produced to the tip of the acumen, impressed and usually villous 
above, side ribs from 4—5 mm. above the base, nearly straight, 
ending about half-way up; main nerves from the midrib 2—3 
pairs, irregular, nerves outside side ribs 0 or few; transverse 
nervules very faint, reticulation areolate; petiole slender, tawny- 
villous, 1O—15 mm. long. Flowers in umbellules, sessile or very 
shortly pedunculate in axillary tawny-villous clusters or racemes ; 
involucral bracts 4, hemispherical, very much gland-dotted, glabrous 
within; flowers in each umbellule 1 to 3 on very short long- 
villous pediceis, perianth-lobes 6, unequal, ovate or ovate- 
oblong, 15—2 mm. long, gland-dotted, long-tawny-villous at 
base within as is the very short perianth-tube. Stamens of 
3 flowers usually 9, glabrous except at the base; those of the 
outer rows with shortly oblong anthers and slender filaments; those 
of the inner row similar and with a pair of large reniform stipitate 
glands at the base; rudimentary ovary ovoid, with short style and 
peltate stigma. Staminodes of 92 flowers 9 to 12, clavate, those of 
outer rows longer than those of the inner which have glands at the 
base asin 3. Ovary ovoid; style thick, twisted; stigma capitate, 
lobed. Fruit (immature) an ovoid drup2 6 mm. long, seated on the 
persistent perianth-lobes and staminodes; pedicel thickened and 
lengthgned ; pericarp shining. Lindera cesia, Reinw. var. rufa, Stapf 
in Trans. Linn. Soc. 2nd Ser. IV. 220. 
Perak: Ulu Batang Padang 1500 m., Gunong Brumbu Pahang 
2100 m. and Gunong Bubu 1500 m., Wray 1571!, 1581!, 3921!; 
_Scortechini!; high rocks on Gunong Batu Pateh 900—1200 m. alt., 
King’s Collector 8066!. SrLancor: top of Ulu Semangko, Ridley 
12060!.—Distris. Borneo (Kinabalu 2500 m., Haviland 1106!); 
Sumatra (Mt. Dempo 2200 m., Forbes 2394!). 
Tribe VIII. CASSYTHEAE. 
16. CassytHa, Linn. 
Filiform twining parasites, adhering to their host by suckers. 
Leaves consisting of minute scales or none. Flowers small, herma- 
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