CXIX. LAURINEAL 
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Lindera .] 
above, glaucous beneath, long-acuminate, base acute (young leaves 
coppery-red velvety), deeply and conspicuously areolate, tri- 
nerved with 2 pairs of nerves from upper part of midrib, 2 to 
2-5 in. long, 1 to 1-5 in. wide; petioles -4 in. long, tomentose. 
Umbellules sessile and shortly peduncled red-hairy in clusters of 
about 8. Flowers 3. Drupe ovoid, *23 in. long on the persistent 
perianth-lobes; pedicel thickened and lengthened. Hab. Moun¬ 
tains, Selangor, Gunong Semangkok; Gunong Mengkuang Lebah 
(Robinson). Perak, Gunong Brumber Pahang at 7000 ft. altitude; 
Gunong Bubu at 5000 ft. altitude; and Ulu Batang Padang at 
4900 ft. altitude (Wray); Gunong Kerbau at 7000 ft. altitude 
(Haniff). Distrib. Borneo, Sumatra. 
(14) L. concinna Ridl. Journ. Roy. As. Soc. S. Br. 82, p. 192. 
A bush glabrous except the tips of branches and young leaves. 
Leaves coriaceous, thick, oblong-ovate rounded or short blunt 
acuminate, base very shortly narrowed, glaucous beneath, tripli- 
nerved with numerous fine, close transverse nervules and small, 
prominent reticulations, 175 to 2-25 in. long, 1 to 1*25 in. wide; 
petioles -12 to *15 in. long (velvety in young leaves as are nerves). 
Umbellules 4 or 5 together in the axils; peduncles -i in. long, hairy. 
Flowers 2, sessile, lobes oblong narrow, inner ones larger than 
outer. Stamens 9, filaments long, slender, very hairy; anther 
ovate. Drupe not seen; pedicels obconic hairy with lobes per¬ 
sistent. Hab. High mountains, Pahang, Gunong Tahan at 5500 ft. 
altitude (Robinson). 
16 . CASSYTHA, Linn. 
Filiform, twining, yellow parasites. Leaves of minute scales 
or 0. Flowers small, bisexual, capitate spicate or racemose. 
Perianth-tube globose or turbinate short, lobes 6, outer 3 smaller. 
Stamens 9 or 6, 2-celled, rows 1 and 2 introrse, row 3 extrorse 
with a pair of glands and 3 staminodes inside. Ovary free in tube; 
style Short. Drupe enclosed in the enlarged perianth-tube which 
bears the remains of the lobes at top. Species 15, chiefly Australian 
and S. African, one widely spread over Asia. 
(1) C. filiformis Linn. Sp. PI. 35 I Gamble , Journ. As. Soc. 
Beng. l.c. 202. 
Stem very long tangled, scrambling over bushes like Dodder, 
yellow. Flowers in dense spikes about 1 in. long; perianth -05 in. 
long. Drupe oblong, globose, -25 in. long, crowned with the lobes, 
white. Hab. Very common on the sea-coast, Singapore, Malacca, 
Pahang to Penang and Kelantan. Distrib. India, Africa, Malaya, 
Australasia, America. 
A parasite on all kinds of bushes and small trees, including the nutmegs 
in Penang. 
