The present revision replaces my previous account of the genus in Kew Bull. 22: 369-372 (1968), where on the basis of the specimens then available to me I came to the conclusion that not more than one species could be recognized with certainty. The need was mentioned especially for further fruiting collections in order to determine whether more than one species was really involved. Attention was drawn to the great difference between the endocarps of Australian material and the one collection known from New Ireland (the type of L. nyctericarpa Diels). Unfortunately, apart from the latter no fruits from Malesia were then known to me. Not long after publication of that account, fruiting collections from New Guinea which I had not previously seen came to my attention, and these proved to agree with the New Ireland collection and not with the Australian material. It can now be concluded, therefore, that the New Guinea specimens (except NGF 7470), which I previously cited together with the Tanimbar Is. and New Ireland specimens, represent L. minutifora (K. Schum.) Diels (=L. nyctericarpa), and the name L. moorei (F. Muell.) Miers must be restricted to the Australian specimens. The one Philippine collection of the genus, PNH 100oo20, which as far as I knew had only female flowers, has since been represented at Kew by an additional duplicate of the same number but with three young fruits. From the endocarps it is now apparent that the Philippine plant is a distinct species, L. philippinensis Forman, described below. It was previously noted that NGF 7470 from Bulolo, Morobe District, Territory of New Guinea differed in certain respects from the rest of the specimens then being considered. A further collection with fruits from the same locality indicates that a new species is involved, L. microcarpa Forman. Finally, and very recently, yet another new species, L. acuta Forman, has turned up in the Western Highland District of the Territory of New Guinea. So far, this is represented by only one collection, which fortunately bears the all-important fruits as well as female flowers. Thus, a total of five species is now recognized in contrast to one in the previous account.