CXIX. LAURINEiE. 
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Beilschmiedia.] 
(8) B. longipes Hook. fil. F.B.I. v. 123; Gamble, l.c. 58. 
Large tree 20 to 40 ft. tall, 15 to 20 in. through; young parts 
grey-pubescent. Leaves thin coriaceous, elliptic-lanceolate, acu¬ 
minate, base cuneate; nerves 10 to 14 pairs slender elevate 
beneath, glabrous above, puberulous beneath, reticulations 
distinct; 6 to 9 in. long, 3 to 3-5 in. wide; petioles -5 in. long. 
Panicles lax elongate ashy-pubescent, 4 in. long, 2 in. across; 
branches distant few with few-flowered cymules. Flowers white, 
centre yellow, *1 in. long, tube very short ovate, lobes round, 
tomentose inside and out. Fruit ovoid black. Hub, Malacca 
(Maingay). Perak, Sungei Larut (Wray). 
(9) B. perakensis Gamble, in Kew Bulletin, 1910, p. 149 > 
Journ. As. Soc. Beng. l.c. 59. 
A shrub 4 to 6 ft. tall to a tree 30 to 40 ft. tall, 5 to 7 m. 
through; branchlets slender, pubescent. Leaves chartaceous 
alternate, elliptic to obovate, shortly acuminate, base attenuate, 
glabrous above, puberulous minutely on nerves, 10 to 12 pairs, 
beneath elevate rather prominent; 5 to 7 in. long, 3 in. wide; 
petioles *25 in. long. Panicles slender pubescent, 4 in. long; 
branches few, very short, *4 in. long; cymules 3-flowered. Perianth 
velvety, yellowish brown, -i in. long; lobes ovate pubescent. 
Fruit oblong or obovoid, black, -5 in. long. Hab. Dense forest, 
Perak, Ulu Bubong and Thaiping (Kunstler). 
(10) B. tonkinensis Ridl. Journ. Roy. As. Soc. S. Br. 82, p. 190. 
B. glomerata Merrill var. tonkinensis Lecomte, FI. Gen. de Cochin- 
chine, v. 149. 
Tree with pale bark. Leaves glabrous, membranous obovate 
or oblanceolate blunt; nerves slender, inconspicuous; 3 in. long, 
1-5 in. wide; petioles -25 in. long. Cymes lateral peduncled pubes¬ 
cent, 5- to 8-flowered, 75 in. long. Perianth campanulate, lobes 
linear-oblong, blunt, hairy outside and in, -25 in. long; pedicels 
•15 in. long. Stamens, row 1, filaments hairy slender; anthers 
ovate, 2-celled; row 2, extrorse apparently sterile; row 3 absent. 
Staminodes small, ovate sub-sessile. Ovary conic; style rather 
long. " Fruit ellipsoid or obovoid, *5 in. long ” (Lecomte). Hab. 
Setul. Distrib. Tonkin. 
Quite an abnormal species, for, as my specimens are, the third row of 
stamens is quite wanting. The leaves as described above may be young, 
B. glomerata Merrill of the Philippines has thick coriaceous leaves, the var. 
tonkinensis Lecomte, oblanceolate thinly coriaceous leaves. 
(11) B. penangiana Gamble, in Kew Bulletin, 1910, p. 149. 
Tree 30 to 40 ft. tall; branches white, shining. Leaves sub- 
coriaceous elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, blunt abruptly acuminate, 
base cuneate glabrous; nerves 10 to 12 pairs faint irregular in¬ 
arching far from edge; 4 in. long, 175 in. wide; petioles -25 in. 
long, rather broad. Flowers in very short *5 in. axillary racemes 
with orbicular, silky-pubescent bracts enclosing 1 flower and 2 
