™ cxix. LAURINE^. [A ctinodaphne. 
above slender, slightly raised beneath, 6 to 8 pairs; 67 to 7 in. 
long, 1*5 in. wide; petioles -5 in. long, rusty-pubescent. Flowers 
in sessile lateral umbels with chaffy deciduous scales; bracts 
orbicular. Drupe globose, nearly -4 in. through on the enlarged 
cup-shaped perianth. Hab. Hill woods, rare, Johor, Gunong 
Pulai (Ridley). DisU'ib. Borneo. 
This resembles A. johorensis, but the leaves are minutely areolate, not 
glaucous beneath. 
(9) A. pruinosa Nees, Wall PI. As. Rar. ii. 68; Gamble, Journ . 
ffs. Soc. Beng. l.c. 119. 
Tree 30 to 40 ft. tall; branchlets slender red-tomentose at 
tips. Leaves coriaceous in whorls of 4 to 6, lanceolate, elliptic- 
lanceolate, acute or acuminate, base shortly cuneate, shining, 
glabrous above, glaucous beneath (young); finely puberulous 
or glabrous beneath; midrib and nerves elevate slender; nerves 
8 to 10 pairs; nervules and reticulations very fine, visible beneath; 
3 to 5 in. long, 1*2 to 2 in. wide; petioles -2 in. long. Flowers 
in fascicles -5 in. long and wide, sessile or shortly peduncled, 
numerous between the whorls or in the whorls. Bracts caducous 
hispid. Drupe globose black, -25 in. through ; perianth-cup -15 in. 
across; pedicels *25 in. long. Hab. Woods, Singapore, Changi. 
Malacca (Maingay). Perak, Waterfall Hill (Wray). Penang, 
Moniot’s Road (Curtis, Wallich). 
var. Kunstleri. Nearly entirely glabrous. Drupe globose, 
cupule shorter and thicker. Hab. Perak, Goping (Kunstler). 
(10) A. concinna Ridl. Journ. F.M.S. Mus. v. 44. 
Leaves 4 to 5 in a whorl, thinly coriaceous, glabrous lanceolate 
acuminate; nerves 8 pairs slender, elevate beneath; paler and 
slightly glaucescent beneath, 4 to 5-5 in. long, 175 in. wide; 
petioles *24 in. long. Heads *4 in. long, sub-sessile terminal or 
below leaves; bracts coppery, orbicular pubescent, outer lobes 
oblong blunt hooded, inner flat, all hairy outside; stigma in male 
conoid. Hab. Mountains, local, Selangor, Gunong Mengkuang 
Lebah (Robinson). 
(11) A. Hullettii Gamble, Kew Bulletin, 1910, p. 314; Journ. 
2fs. Soc. Beng. l.c. 120. 
Tree about 30 ft. tall, bushy; stem 1 ft. through. Leaves 
coriaceous in whorls of 3 to 5 oblanceolate, acuminate, base cuneate, 
glabrous above, light green, minutely areolate beneath glaucous, 
conspicuously areolate; nerves very fine, 5 to 6 pairs; 3 to 4 in. 
long, 75 to 1*2 in. wide; petioles -15 in. long. Flowers, male 
in axillary bracteate clusters; bracts deciduous leaving a very 
short peduncle. Flowers villous. Hab. Singapore Gardens. 
A single tree on the bandstand, which died about 1911. It was possibly 
not wild, but has been seen nowhere else. 
