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. CXXVIII. LAURINEE. (J. D. Hooker.) 117 
* Anthers 4-celled. 
Flowers dicecious, enclosed in densely imbricating bracts . . 11. AOTINODAPHNE, 
Flowers dicecious, umbelled, umbels involucrate . . . . . 12. LITSEA. 
owers 2-sexual, solitary or panicled, enclosed in imbricating 
bracts... L . 7... . 1.4 18. DODECADENIA. 
. ™ Anthers 2-celled. 
Flowers umbelled, umbels involucrate. . - M uo. o. 5. 14. LINDERA. 
Taree III. Cassythee. Twining leafless herbs or shrubs. Flowers 
0t Perseacee, 
15. CassYTHA. 
Tame IV. Hernandies. Trees. Anther-valves opening laterally. 
16. HERNANDIA. 
1. CRYPTOCARYA, Brown. 
Evergreen trees or shrubs. Leaves rarely subopposite, 3- or penni- 
Pod. Flowers small, 2.sexual, in axillary. and subterminal panicles. 
erianth ovoid or turbinate ; lobes 6, subequal. Perfect stamens 9, those 
cE the 1st and 2nd series eglandular, anthers introrsely 2-celled ; of the 3rd 
Aog 2-glandular, anthers extrorsely 2-celled ; staminodes of ‘4th series 
d tate Fruit wholly included in and often adnate to’ the oblong or 
ose perianth-tube.—Species about 40, tropical and subtropical. 
A. Species of North-Eastern India and the Malay Peninsula.. 
Ios Ad leaves tomentose or pubescent, at least on the nerves and midrib 
l e Griflithiana, Wight Ic. t. 1830; branchlets inflorescence ‘and 
«uds beneath dense] rusty-villous, leaves 8-12 in. very coriaceous oblong 
Udate-acuminate shining above glaucous beneath, nerves very strong, 
on cles short and shortly peduncled, flowers subsessile crowded mixed lwi 
& nets, fruit globosely flask-shaped. Kurz For. FT. ii. 295. C. infec- 
a & caudata, Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 68. 
ENASSERIM (South , Kurz. MAraACCA, Griffith, Maingay. 
- small evergreen tree branchlets stout. on 2-4 in. broad, rarely ribed- 
ip somet: e 2 usually recurved ; nerves 8-10 pair, sank above; midrib rusty-pube , 
P sometimes 1 in, long ; petiole 4 in., very stout. Panicles 1-2 in., oblong. owers 
In. diam., perianth-tube very short, Fruit globose, narrowed into a e ict 
exactly like a round-bellied flask, 2-3 in, diam., smooth, black, shining, ov 
Mei. uncle greatly enlarged.— Wight was the first to publish this as Gm na. 
7 ted | Supposing it to be Blume’s Cylicodaphne infectoria (Mus. Bot. ii. | ) has 
Blum » \rom Miquel) that specific name. I have seen no authentic specimen. « 
Bo 75 plant, of which Meissner makes a variety C. infectoria B. acuminata, gi ag 
hoas the habitat; but the Borneo plant differs from the Malaccan not onty 
ort apex of the leaf, but in the elliptic or oblong fruit. 
il C. impressa, Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. i. 923; branchlets loroan 
Gora s o8 beneath densely finely rusty-tomentose, leaves AY 
. Ceous elliptic or oblong shortly acuminate opaque above, s ilh at 
flower «Y Strong beneath, panicles often equalling the leaves loose ly ran hed, 
P od. Pedicelled, bracts deciduous. C. infectoria y. opaca, JMetssn. | A 
* Xv. 1.69, ©, venosa, Meissn. mss. o. T 
Sumatra, > Grifith (Kew Distrib, 4277), Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1250). —D1 
red by Meissner to a form of his infecoria, but abundantly distinct in the 
