Maehilus.] CXXVII. LAURINEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) 139 
flowers š in. diam. Perianth-lobes oblong, finely tomentose without and within. 
Filaments long, villous; anthers narrow. Fruit unknown.—A very distinot-looking ` 
plant from its large broad membranous leaves and large long-pedicelled flowers. 
9. M. sericea, Blume Mus. Bot. i. 330; branches very stout and 
panicles hoary-pubescent, leaves long-petioled 6-8 in. coriaceous oblong- 
lanceolate acuminate young silky beneath, nerves very slender, panicles 
4-8 in. long, branches usually short few-fld. Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 41. 
Phoebe sericea, Nees Syst. Laurin. 99 (excl. syn. Fl. Nep.); Meissn. l.c. 35. 
Ocotea sericea, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. i. 7l, and iii, $2, Laurus 
sericea, Wall, Cat.2606. — . 
. CENTRAL H IMALAYA; Nepal and Kumaon, in the Deyra hoon, Wallich. 
Branches as thick as a swan's quill. Leaves when young polymorphous, oblong 
lanceolate obtuse acute or acuminate, base acute or rounded, white-silky beneath ; 
old leaves rigidly coriaceous, brown when dry, rather glaucous beneath, finely reticu- 
late on both surfaces; nerves 12-15 pair, arched; petiole 1-14 in. Panicles some- 
times very long, with few short branches ; flowers shortly pedicelled, 4-3 in. diam. 
laments short, hairy; anthers narrow. Fruit unknown.—Wallich’s specimens of 
vurus sericea, A, B,C, may or may not belong to one species ; it is described by 
ees as a Phoebe; but Blume afterwards separated some of the specimens as Machilus 
sericea, observing that it differs from the Phebe in the absence of rings (caused by 
the fall of the bud-scales) at the bases of the branches. This difference is due to the 
age of the branches, of which the old bear scars of scales, which scales the first year's 
shoots do not bear. Meissner quotes Wallich’s 2606 B under both. The specimens 
sre very bad, and are all possibly referable to M. odoratissima, but the petioles are 
. onger. The Nepal specimens have hairy filaments and anthers, those of the Ku- 
aon Ones are glabrous. When the Western Himalayan Machili are cleared up, 
* sericea will probably be suppressed as being a composite book-species. 
L 10, M. odoratissima, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Far, n. 70, and + ed 
qurin, 172; glabrous except the panicle, leaves 3-9 in. long-petioled an- 
pelate or oblong or elliptic-lanceolate acuminate usually slightly glaucous 
B neath, nerves slender, panicles long- or short-peduncled hoary-tomer: se 
= Siabrous, flowers glabrous or pubescent, fruit oblong or globose. 08, 
BLT: Prodr. xv. 1. 40; Brand. Fer. Fl.378; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. im 
T de Mus. Bot. i. 399. M. indica, Karz For. Fl. ii. 291; Mique le 
49. : Bat. i. 1, 914 (excl. var.8.). M. rimosa, Blume l. c. 330; ? Hon C6 
I ? Kurz l. e. 999. Laurus odoratissima, Wall. Cat. 2607. L. mao 
Hasip Cock. i. 311 (ex Nees). L. Champa and L. bombycina, Herb. 
Suprrop ICAL and TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, from Murree eastwards ; asoending 
alt 3 t. in Sikkim ; Assam and the Kuasra Mrs. TENASSERIM and a hi N 
. A 1000 ft. P SINGAPORE, JVallich.—DrsTRI. Java, Sumatra, Cochin an ble 
in brea nee tree, stunted at high elevations, shoots pubescent. Leaves NH slender. 
anis 1th, Coriaceous ; nerves irregular, usually 15-20 pair; petiole 3-4 d; peduncle 
gla re €s about equalling the leaves, but very variable, loosely branched ; metimes 
eor ous hoary or subsilkily pubescent, as are the flowers, which blo so obtuse 
len yer On the short branches. Perianth 4-2 in. diam. ; lobes o ted anthers 
E ening a little after flowering. Filaments glabrous or slightly neh this lant 
and 8, rarely hairy. Fruit 1-3 in. long.—I am very much puzzled ik d bebween 
Suspect that it consists of several species, the differences being marke 
+. SPecimens with | Á ilkily pubescent perianths, and those 
With plo ith glabrous and those with silkily pubesc s odoratissimus, 
Wal € se and with oblong fruit. The type of the specior b Faw is and panicles 
* 4007, from Nepal, which h iously silkily p . 
with however are hardly developed) No. 2607 C and D (from Herb, Hamilton) 
Sikkis dose fruit seem the same ; and other specimens with globose frui th glabro i 
mand Simla. The other form is Wallich’s 2607 B from Kumaon, with g 
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