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CXIX. LAURINE^. 
[. Beilschmiedia. 
Gamble gives the Garden Jungle plant as B. Curtisii, but its leaves are 
glabrous, and I take it to be a narrow-leaved form of B. ntalaccensis. 
(4) B. Curtisii Gamble, Kew Bulletin, 1910, p. 148; Journ. 
As. Soc. Beng. l.e. 55. (Fig. 143, p. 83). 
Tree about 60 ft. tall; branchlets thickly red-tomentose. 
Leaves stiff coriaceous elliptic acute, base narrowed unequal, 
glabrous above; nerves 8 to 9 pairs sunk above, elevate, red- 
tomentose beneath, often entirely; 6 in. long, 3 to 4-25 in. 
wide; petioles tomentose, *5 in. long. Panicles -5 in. long; 
axillary tomentose. Bracts oblong-tomentose, 1 in. long, corym¬ 
bose. Perianth-tube obconie, very short tomentose, lobes oblong, 
glabrous. Fruit oblong, black, 1 in. long. Hab. Penang Hill at 
2000 ft. altitude (Curtis). 
Resembles B. ntalaccensis, but is much more hairy. 
(5) B. Scortechinii Gamble, Kew Bulletin, 1910, p. 148; Journ. 
/Is. Soc. Beng. lx. 56. 
Tree; branchlets flattened, pubescent. Leaves coriaceous, 
oblong-lanceolate, acuminate acute, base attenuate, glabrous 
except midrib beneath rusty-puberulous when young, later glabres- 
cent; nerves slender, 12 pairs elevate beneath, reticulations 
elevate; 6 in. long, 2 in. wide; petioles rusty-pubescent, 1 in. long. 
Flowers -I in. long in rusty-pubescent panicles, few-branched, 
2 in. long. Perianth-tube campanulate, rusty-villous, lobes oblong. 
Hab. Mountain forests to 4000 ft. altitude. Perak, Thaiping Hills, 
Caulfield’s Hill (Scortechini). 
(6) B. lumutensis Gamble, in Kew Bulletin, 1910, p. 148; 
Journ. /Is. Soc. Beng. l.c. 56. 
Tree quite glabrous with slender branches. Leaves thin cori¬ 
aceous elliptic to elliptic-oblong, acute or blunt, base shortly 
narrowed; nerves fine, 8 to 10 pairs, reticulations very numerous 
and conspicuous; 5 in. long, 2*25 in. wide or less; petioles *25 in. 
long, rather slender. Panicles very slender, 4 or 5 branches, 
3 in. long. Flowers few, very small, sub-globose, lobes short 
orbicular, glabrous except a villous ring at base of stamens. Hab. 
Dindings, Lumut (Ridley). Rare. 
(7) B. Maingayi Hook. fil. F.B.I. v. 123; Gamble, l.c. 57/ 
Tree 40 to 60 ft. tall, 15 to 20 in. through. Leaves chartaceous, 
obovate or oblanceolate, abrupt acuminate, base narrowed red 
brown when dry; nerves 7 to 9 pairs distant elevate, reticulations 
wide, inconspicuous; 7 to 9 in. long, 3 to 6 in. wide; petioles *25 in. 
long, rather thick. Panicles dense, rusty-tomentose, 1 in. long; 
rachis and branches stout. Bracts conspicuous ovate rusty- 
tomentose. Perianth-tube very short; lobes ovate. Fruit ellip- 
soid-obovoid, 1*25 in. long, 75 in. through on thickened peduncle. 
Hab. Malacca (Maingay). Dindings, Lumut. Perak (Scortechini); 
Goping and Larut up to 2500 ft. altitude (Kunstler). 
The fruiting specimens (Kunstler's) are a little doubtful. 
