Machilus. | CXXVIII. LAURINEX. (J. D. Hooker.) 141 
xv. 1. 40; Wight Ic. t. 1824; Beddome For. Flt. 264; Thwaites Enum. 254; 
Dalz. § Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 991. M, glaucescens, Wight Ic. t. 1825 (exel. syn.) ; 
Dalz. & Gibs. 1. c. Cryptocarya floribunda, Miquel Pl. Hohenack. n. 1458 
(not of Nees). . Laurus macrantha, Wall. Cat. 2587. 
DECCAN PENINSULA; on the Ghats from the Concan southwards, ascending to 
000 ft. CEYLON, alt. 1500-4000 ft. . 
A large tree; branches brown when dry. Leaves 3-9 by 14-3] in., finely reti- 
culate on both surfaces; nerves 8-12 pair, slender, sometimes indistinct; petiole 
slender, 1-1} in, Panieles grouped in a subterminal corymb as in M. vlosa, some- 
times 10 in. long and with very long peduncle and spreading branches; at others 
short and subsessile, peduncle and branches from hoary-pubescent to glabrate; 
owers very variable in size, ]-l in. diam. Perianth tomentose without and within ; 
lobes oblong or linear-oblong. Anthers pubescent. Fruit black, 1-3 in. diam.—I 
can find no characters whereby to distinguish Wight's glaucescens from macrantha. 
Dalzell and Gibson describe the fruit of the former as about the size of a small goose- 
“try, and of the latter as of a large currant. The length of the petiole at once dis- 
tinguishes it from M. . villosa, as does the pubescence of the panicle. 
9. PHOEBE, Nees. 
Evergreen trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate or scattered, penninerved. 
Flowers small, 2-sexual or polygamous, in axillary and subterminal panicles. 
erianth-tube short; segments 6, subequal, erect and enlarging and clasping 
e base of the fruit. Perfect stamens 9; filaments of Ist and 2nd series 
eglandular with introrse 4-celled anthers, of 3rd series 2-glandular with 
extrorse 4.celled anthers ; staminodes of 4th series cordate or sagittate. Fruit 
ellipsoid or oblong, clasped at the base by the hardened perianth-segments.— 
Pecies about 26, Indian and Malayan. "e 
Plole, which in the “Genera Plantarum ” is reduced to Persea, must, I think, be 
restored ; the fruiting perianth is very characteristic and habit uniform. 
* Perianth quite glabrous. 
J. P. lanceolata, Nees Syst. Laurin, 109; quite glabrous, leaves 
elliptic-lanceolate finely or candate-acuminate, perianth glabrous, segments 
cal fruit jin; Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 34 (exel. var. y.) ; Wight Te. 
7 1821 ; Brandis For. Flor. 377; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 290; Gamble Man. 
S Timb. 808; P Beddome For. Man. 184. Ocotea lanceolata, Nees in 
1 all. Pl. As. Ray. ii 71. Laurus lanceolata, Wall. Cat. 2599. D. lanceo- 
p Roxb, Fl, Ind. ii. 309. L. salicifolia and L.? camphorata, Herb. 
Hamiit, 
Sverroprcar, HIMALAYA, from Simla eastwards, ascending to 6000 ft. Kasra 
Decca omon. BURMA, Griffith. MARTABAN and TENASSERIM, Kurz. SOUTH 
‘An Nilghiri Hills and southward, alt. 3000 ft., Beddome. — m 
b ls evergreen tree; branches slender, bark usually yellowish white. Tarini e 
z -2} in., thinly coriacesus, pale when dry above and pale brown bein , » 
Ua nerves 6-10 pair; petiole slender, 1-1 in. ie ien axi uA ery 
at ne shorter or longer than the leaves, peduncle sometimes stric on ~ iD, 
Others curved and 4-6 in., branches few ; flowers 45-1 in., pale yel id or whi e: 
inh cup-shaped ; Segments broad, obtuse, pubescent within, han ening and 
á Pat the fruit, which is narrowly ellipsoid, black.—Nees derit the eav hi 
eii. ely pubescent beneath. I have seen no Deccan specimens. ery nen rp. de 
Nees, % Nees, of the mountains of Java. Var. y. ligustrina, Meissn., is P. nd 
2. P. angustifolia, Me'ssn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 94; quite glabrous 
