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There are two sheets at K of the one gathering cited in the original description of Litsea 
gracilis Gamble (Gamble, 1910: 317). The sheet bearing a card with notes, dissections 
and the signature of Gamble, K000797038, is designated here as the lectotype. 
Litsea gracilipes Hook.f., FI. Brit. India [J.D. Hooker] 5: 159 (1886). - TYPE: 
[Peninsular Malaysia] Malacca, W. Griffith [Kew Distribution no.] 4311 (lectotype K 
[K000797135], designated here; isolectotypes K [K000797136], P [P00745274]) 
In the original description of this name, only one gathering, with male flowers, was 
cited: W. Griffith [Kew Distribution no. 4311] from Malacca (Hooker, 1886: 159-160). 
In K, two specimens of this gathering are present, K000797136 and K000797135, and 
the one with the dissection of male flowers and notes on the sheet, K000797135, is 
designated here as the lectotype. 
Litseagriffithii Gamble, J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 75: 187-188 (1912). -TYPE: Singapore, 
Reservoir Woods, 1893, H.N. Ridley 4823 (lectotype K, designated here; isolectotype 
SING [SING0043342]). 
In the original description of this name, many Peninsular Malaysian, Singaporean and 
Sumatran gatherings are mentioned: Burn-Murdock 282 (Ridley 14284), Forbes 1762, 
W. Griffith [4285], King’s Collector 5865, 8573, King & Hullett s.n., Maingay 12521, 
Ridley 4823, 5569, and Wray 2757 (Gamble, 1912: 187-188). The gathering from the 
Reservoir Woods in Singapore, Ridley 4823, housed at K, is designated here as the 
lectotype. 
Litsea lanceolata (Blume) Kosterm., Reinwardtia 7: 348 (1968). -Aperula lanceolata 
Blume, Mus. Bot. 1(27): 367 (1851). - TYPE: [Indonesia] Java, C.L. Blume s.n. 
(lectotype U [U0002822], designated here; isolectotype U [U0002823]). 
In the original publication of this name, Blume (1851: 367) gave the collection data 
only ‘in Java \ There are two possible sheets available at U for lectotypification, 
one only has a single sterile leaf [U0002823] and the other has a twig with several 
leaves and a few small inflorescences [U0002822], The latter is designated here as the 
lectotype. 
Litsea machilifolia Gamble, Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 320 (1910); Ng, Gard. Bull. 
Singapore 57: 234 (2005). - TYPE: [Peninsular Malaysia] Penang, MoniotRoad, June 
1886, C. Curtis 795 (lectotype SING [SING 0068773], first step designated by Ng 
(2005), second step lectotypification designated here). 
