120 OXXYHIL LAURINEH, (J. D. Hooker) ` [OCryptocarya. 
$ in. diam.— King notes this as either cesia or a new species; it agrees with Blume's 
character of cesia except in that the midrib beneath is almost quite glabrous. The 
fruit of the Javan plant being unknown, the identification is not sure. A. similar 
plant, but with shorter petioles, more nerves and more pubescent flowers, occurs he 
Celebes. Meissner regards the Javan cæsia as perhaps a var. of ferrea, from which the 
Indian plant seems to be very distinct. 
11. C. ? Andersoni, King in Herb. Hort. Bot. Cale.; very robust, 
leaves 8-12 in. long-petioled glabrous elliptic acute at both ends thickly 
coriaceous finely reticulated above red-brown beneath with 10 pairs of very 
oblique stout nerves and transverse nervules, panicle very large stout corym- 
bose and much branched hoary-pubescent, flowers minute. 
ASSAM, Jenkins in Herb. Hort. Cale. 
l have seen only a leaf, a portion of a panicle and a drawing |(lent by Dr. 
King) of this remarkable plant, which resembles no other of the Order in foliage or 
flowers. The panicle is 8 in. long, and must have been as broad at the top, the 
peduncle is as thick below as a goose-quill, black and shrunken when dry (as if soft 
when fresh); it branches repeatedly corymbosely from low down, the ultimate divisions 
flowering at the tips; the flowers are about jj, in. diam., on pedicels of the same 
length ; perianth-segments oblong, obtuse; stamens short, glabrous; ovary ovoid, 
style short, stigma discoid, 
B. Species of Ceylon and Western India. 
12. C. Wightiana, Thwaites Enum. 254; branchlets and inflorescence 
rusty-pubescent or puberulous, leaves 4-10 in. rigidly coriaceous elliptic or 
oblong acuminate glabrous smooth hardly shining above, glaucous white 
and glabrous or faintly puberulous beneath with 6-10 pair of strong arched 
nerves, panicles spreading equalling or shorter than the leaves, frui 
globose. Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 70 (excl. var. 8.); Beddome Forest. 
Š o: à E floribunda, Wight Ic. t. 1829 (not of Nees); Dalz. & Gibs. 
DECCAN PENINSULA; from Canara southwards. CEYLON; ascending to 5000 ft. 
A tall tree; branches rather stout, often lenticellate. Leaves variable in breadth, 
13-4 in., strongly reticulate beneath, base rounded oracute; petiole 3-1 in. Panicles 
very many-fld. ; flowers pedicelled, 4 in. long. Fruit } in. diam., smooth, black, glossy 
— Wight figures and describes the Ceylon plant as having oblong fruit, as does Meissner, 
but Thwaites correctly states it to be globose. I have seen no fruit of Peninsular 
specimens, Meissner’s vars. parvifolia and lanceolata are not separable from 
e type. . 
13. C. Stocksii, Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 71; branches and 
panicles rusty-tomentose, leaves 24-4 in. rigidly coriaceous oblong obtuse oF 
rounded at the tip glabrous smooth above, glaucous beneath with 6-7 pall 
of stout pubescent or glabrous nerves, panicles shorter than the leaves stout 
dense-fld., fruit ovoid. C. neilgherriensis, Meissn. L. c. 
Deccan PENINSULA; Canara, Stocks, &c.; Nilghiri Hi ight ; mallay 
Hille Hoddoms. A 5 Nilghiri Hills, Wight; Ana 
A large tree, very near C. Wightiana, but the leaves are much smaller, shorter- 
petioled, and usually very obtuse; the panicles short, contracted, and dense-fld., the 
flowers larger, and the fiuit only 4 in. long and ovoid, not shining. 
14. C. membranacea, Thwaites Enum. 254; branchlets slender and 
panicles rusty-pubescent, leaves 3-5 in. glabrous membranous elliptic-oblong 
acute or acuminate finely reticulated on both surfaces, beneath somewhat 
glaucous with 5-7 pair of strong nerves, panicles very small few-fld., fruit 
