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hairs, the lower surface white, densely tomentose, the pubescent 
midrib, nerves, and reticulations brownish, the base usually 
rounded, the apex shortly and sharply acuminate ; lateral nerves 
about 12 on each side of the midrib, distinct, the petioles about 
1.5 cm long; stipules lanceolate, acuminate, about 1 cm long. 
Inflorescences- fascicled, axillary and from the axils of fallen 
leaves, the branches up to 2 cm long, simple, or bearing 2 or 3 
heads, somewhat pubescent, the heads globose, about 5 mm in 
diameter. Achenes crowded, sessile, somewhat hispid, oblong- 
ovoid, narrowed upward, about 1.5 mm long. 
Sumatra, East Coast, Asahan, in mountain jungle at Linaboen, 
June 30, 1910, Bartlett & La Rue 213, with the local name 
nderasi. 
This species is readily distinguished from all previously de- 
scribed forms of the genus by its leaves being white beneath in 
striking contrast to the dark-olivaceous upper surface. 
OLACACEAE 
ERYTHROPALUM Blume 
ERYTHROPALUM SCANDENS Blume Bijdr. (1826) 921. 
Karoland, Lau Bakal, Bartlett & La Rue 170, June 20, 1918. 
India to Java and the Philippines. 
LAURACEAE 
LITSEA Lamarck 
LITSEA UMBELLATA (Lour.) comb. nov. 
Hexanthus umbellatus Lour. FI. Cochinch. (1790) 196. 
Litsea hexantha Juss. in Ann. Mus. Paris 6 (1805) 212. 
Litsea aviara Blume Bijdr. (1825) 563. 
Karoland, Kampong Lingga, Bartlett & La Rue 115, June 5, 
1918. 
Loureiro’s type is preserved in the herbarium of the British 
Museum, where it was examined by R. Brown, who thought it 
to represent the Australian species described by him as Tetran- 
thera ferruginea. It is clear that Brown was in error in making 
this reduction, for Loureiro’s species is apparently identical with 
the widely distributed Malayan one currently known as Litsea 
amara Blume, of which I have numerous specimens from Indo- 
China, the Malay Peninsula, and Java. The Australian species 
currently known as Litsea ferruginea (R. Br.) Benth. & Hook, 
f. needs a new name as the specific name is invalidated in Litsea 
by L. furruginea Blume; it should be known as Litsea leefeana 
(F. Muell.) {Cylicodaphne leefeana F. Muell.). 
