142 CXXVIII. LAURINEX. (J. D. Hooker.) [Phabe. 
leaves very narrowly lanceolate acuminate or caudate, perianth glabrous, 
segments equal, fruit å in. 
KnasrA Mrs., alt. 2-4000 ft., Griffith, Lobb, J. D. H. & T. T. 
A small shrub, perhaps only a form of P. lanceolata, but the leaves are much 
narrower, 4-10 by 3-1 in. 
3. P. declinata, Nees Syst. Laur. 114; quite glabrous, branches 
black when dry, leaves elliptic-lanceolate or -oblong obtuse or obtusely 
acuminaté red brown, nerves 6-8 pair very obscure beneath, perianth gla- 
brous, segments subequal. Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1.34; Miquel Fl. 
Ind. Bat.i.1. 906. P. ligustrina, in part, Nees Syst. 113. P. lanceolata, 
y. ligustrina, in part, Meissn. l. c. Ocotea declinata, Blume Bijd. 572. 
ligustrina, in part, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. ii. 71, and iii. 32. Laurus 
declinata, Blume Cat. Hort. Bot. Buitenz. 66.. L., ligustrina, Wall. Cat. 
2588 A. . 
SINGAPORE, Wallich.—DISTRIB. Java. 
A very distinct species, remarkable for the black shoots, brown finely reticulate 
leaves, 4-5 by 1-1} in., with slender black petioles and midrib beneath, and very 
faint slender nerves.—I have seen no fruit. Wallich's 2588 B from Tavoy consists 
of three specimens of two plants, both different from declinata, one is probably 
P. lanceolata ; two others have elliptie acute thin reticulated leaves only 2 in. long, 
with numerous very slender spreading nerves; these resemble no other species except 
in the flowers, which arelike those of P. lanceolata, but rather smaller. 
** Perianth silky pubescent or tomentose. 
4. P. pallida, Nees Syst. Laurin. 112; shoots very finely puberulous, 
leaves elliptic-lanceolate or oblanceolate finely acuminate puberulous 
beneath at length glabrous, nerves 8-10 pair very oblique deeply impressed 
above strong beneath, panicles axillary long-peduncled and flowers very 
finely pubescent. Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 34; Brandis For. Fl. 377. 
P. glaucescens & fuscans, Meissn. l.c. 37, in part. Laurus pubescens, 
Wall. Cat. 2595 (excl. B, C). Ocotea pallida, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. 
ii. 71. 
SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA; Kumaon, Thomson, Strachey & Winterbottom ; Nepal, 
Wallich. ? Sikkim, J. D. H. EASTERN OUDE forests, Brandis. 
Very closely allied to P. lanceolata, but the young leaves, panicles and flowers 
are finely tomentose, and the leaf-nerves deeply sunk above.—The Sikkim specimens 
doubtfully referred here are flowerless, the leaves are much larger, 6-10 by 13-33 1n» 
more membranous, and the nerves less deeply sunk, as might be expected in plants 
from a moist climate; they are certainly not referable to Laurus glaucescens (Machi- 
lus villosa) as Meissner supposed, and have not the rusty tomentum of P. paniculata. 
Fruit too young for description. 
5. P. paniculata, Nees Syst. Laurin. 105; shoots rusty-tomentose, 
leaves elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate rarely obovate acuminate pubescent an 
with 8-12 pair of very strong nerves beneath, panicles. axillary long- 
peduncled and flowers pubescent or tomentose, fruit turgidly ellipsoid 4-3 10. 
Meissn, in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 87 (excl. syn. Laurus villosa and Phoebe 
villosa); Brand. For. Fl. 377 (excl. syn. L. villosa); Wight Ie. t. 1820. P. 
pubescens, Nees Syst. Laur. 107 ; Kurz For. FI. 290. P. Wightii, Meissn. 
in DC. 1.0.98; Beddome Forest. Fl.t.292. Ocotea pubescens & paniculata, 
Nees.in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. ii. 71, 72, and iii. 32. Laurus paniculata, Wall. 
Cat. 2598. ‘L. pubescens, Wall. Cat. 2595 B, C. Cinnamomum tomentosum 
and C. Cathia, Don Prodr. 66 (fide Nees). 
CENTRAL HIMALAYA ; Nepal, Wallich. BURMA; from ‘Chittagong and Ava to 
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