Endiandra.] — cxxvur. ravmmE. (J. D. Hooker.) 127 
glabrous, leaves 5-8 in. elliptic-oblong obtusely acuminate coriaceous base 
acute concolorous and finely reticulate on both surfaces, nerves distinct, 
panicles lax-fld. much shorter than the leaves. Metssn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 
1.79. Laurus firma, Wall. Cat. 2597. ` J 
SILHET, De Silva. CACHAR, Keenan. 
Branches terete, woody ; terminal buds small, puberulous. Leaves when dry red- 
brown on both surfaces ; nerves 10-11 pair, sunk above, prominent beneath, very 
obliquely arched ; petiole 3 in., stout. Panicle 1-2 in., obscurely puberulous, black 
when dry ; branches spreading ; flowers pedicelled, minutely bracteolate. Perianth 
Sampanulate, 3 in. diam. ; segments broadly ovate, obtuse, glabrous externally, three 
inner smaller, tomentose within, as is a triangular space at the base of the outer and 
the base of the perianth within. Anthers 8, sessile, subsagittately oblong, obtuse, 
thick, tomentose, with linear-oblong obtuse sublateral cells and oblong valves. Fruit 
in Cachar specimen) 1} in. long, elliptic-ovoid, quite smooth, tip rounded.—Nees 
escribes the leaves as sometimes opposite, and the fruit as oblong, 2 by } in., seated 
9n the small orbicular base of the perianth ; but Wallich’s specimens, the only 
ee to Nees, are in flower only (having no fruit), and all the leaves are 
2. E. Maingayi, Hook. f.; leaves 94 in. coriaceous elliptic or elliptic- 
oblong obtusely subcaudate acuminate, minutely reticulated, nerves very 
Obscure, racemes very short glabrous few-fld., perianth unequally 6-cleft, 
511-2 in. oblong. 
Mazacca, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1270). . , 
, Branches rather slender. Leaves 13-2 in. diam., firmly coriaceous, red-brown, 
vcr ing and finely reticulated on both surfaces; nerves 8-10 pair, very slender and 
Aintly raised on both surfaces, base acute; petiole }-} in. Racemes } in. long or 
ess, hoary ; buds globose, 32 in. diam. Sepals very coriaceous, concave. Stamens 
teg almost in the centre of the flower. Ovary sunk in the very short perianth- 
"i ile short, stigma minute. Fruit solitary, axillary, peduncles (or pedicels) 
In. long. 
6. SYNDICLIS, Hook. f. 
A glabrous tree Leaves alternate, penninerved. Flowers minute, 
Panicled, bisexual, gland-dotted. Perianth 4-partite, wholly deciduous ; 
Segments transversely oblong, 2-seriate, the two inher rather smaller. 
“fect stamens 4, opposite to and as long as the perianth-lobes, broadly 
wate, thick, pubescent and gland-dotted, l-celled; cell small, opening 
ntrorse]y by a single valve; staminodes 4, minute, lanceolate, hirsute. 
ary glabrous, tapering into an acute style. 
S. paradoxa, Hook. f. Ic. Plant. t. 1515. 
dcl s den i | ly pubescent or hoary 
anenlets slender, leafy at the ti s, the very young obscurely pubescent or h . 
sie it Petioled, 3-5 by DEN in., Pather meriliranous, obovate-oblong, acumadieats, 
ised pote Pairs of slender nerves, drying pale brown, conspicuously feficajaéet wit 
than tpo oles on both surfaces; base acute; petiole ẹ in., slender. Panioles a or er 
in di eaves, axillary, slender, with spreading few-flowered branches i, ove à 
broade 4"; pedicels long, thickened under the flower. Perianth-segments s rt, 
ia T than long, subreniform, early falling away in one piece. Stamens (apparently 
Valve, anthers) very large for the size of the flower, pubescent all over except » 
(as i£ lowed in front with the small cell towards the lip in front ; valve emargina e 
think y confluent valves), finally recurved over the top of the anther; stamin es, 
Order wit; tt’ with the anthers.—An exceedingly curious plant, the only oe : t e 
by M pth l-celled anthers ; it was in a collection of plants made in Bhotan 
. o "€ nephew of the late Thomas Nuttall, who gave the collection to Sir 
