FROM UPPER BURMA AND THE SHAN STATES. 119 
Shan specimens, like those of Wallich, which we have seen, are 
flowerless ; but Mr. C. Curtis has recently sent better specimens 
to Kew from Penang: pedicellis incrassatis clavatis, perianthio 
truncato, fructu ovoideo. 
Lindera Laureola, Coll. et Hemsl., n. sp. 
Arbor preter pedicellos glaberrima, ramulis ultimis floriferis 
graciliusculis, cortice fere nigro, internodiis quam folia multoties 
brevioribus. Folia breviter petiolata, coriacea, late lanceolata, 
circiter tripollicaria, utrinque cuneata, vix acuta, integra, nitida, 
subtus pallidtora fere glauca, pennivenia, venis primariis utrinque 
5-7 sat conspicuis. Flores umbellati (3 tantum visi), circiter 
6-8 aggregati, 3-4 lineas diametro; umbellæ in axillis foliorum 
sessiles, involueri bracteis orbicularibus cito deciduis ; pedicelli 
2-3 lineas longi, crassiusculi, sericeo-pubescentes; perianthii 
segmenta late obovata, rotundata, 3 exteriora extus puberula; 
stamina 9, 3 interiora glandulis 2 magnis sessilibus crassis sinu- 
atis instructa. 
Shan hills at 4000 feet. 
Machilus Kingii, Hook. f. ? ; Fl. Brit. Ind. v. p. 861.—Shan 
hills at 4000 feet. 
Khasia. 
The species of this genus are still very imperfectly defined. 
PROTEACEE. 
Helicia erratica, Hook. f.; Fl. Brit. Ind. v. p. 189.—Shan 
hills at 4000 feet, Mander, Aplin, and Collett. 
Sikkim, Khasia, and Martaban. 
The flowers of the Shan specimens are very densely racemose 
and nearly sessile. 
THYMELEACER. 
Wikstremia indica, Endl.; Fl. Brit. Ind. v. p. 195.—Shan 
hills at 3000 feet. 
Chittagong, Tenasserim, Singapore, China, and the Philip- 
pines. 
Linostoma scandens, Kurz, Forest Fl. Burma, ii. p. 334; Fl. 
Brit. Ind. v. p. 198.—Shan hills terai at 2000 feet. 
Tenasserim to Singapore. 
