144 CXXVIII LAURINEE, (J. D. Hooker)  [A/seodaphne. 
enlarged after flowering, obsolete in fruit. Stamens and staminodes as.in 
Phebe. Fruit ellipsoid, seated on the truncate end of the long or short 
often much swollen and fleshy peduncle.—Species about 15, Tropical Asiatic. 
Habit of Dehaasia, but anthers 4-celled. The species are very imperfectly 
known. 
* Perianth-segments subequal or the outer rather narrower. 
]. A. semecarpifolia, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. ii. 72, and Syst. 
Laurin. 182; nearly glabrous, leaves coriaceous cuneately obovate or oblong 
tip obtuse or rounded 6-8-nerved often glaucous beneath, panicles long- 
peduncled branches spreading, perianth nearly glabrous segments subequal, 
fruit ellipsoid acute equalling its swollen warted peduncle.  Meissn. in 
DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 98; Wall. Cat. 2586 A; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl, 222; 
Wight Ic. t. 1826, 1827; Thwaites Enum. 254; Beddome For: Fl. t. 297. 
Deccan PENINSULA; in dry forests from the Concan southwards, CEYLON in 
the drier parts ef the island. 
A small tree, very variable in foliage, young parts obscurely puberulous. Leaves 
2-7 in., usually very finely reticulate above when dry and glaucous beneath, base acute; 
nerves faint orstrong; petiole}-lin. Panicles about as long as the leaves or shorter ; 
. peduncle and branches slender, glabrous, black when dry; flowers on rather long - 
pedicels, } in. diam., subumbellate at the tips of the branches. Perianth-segments 
usually subequal, but in one specimen from Herb. Stocks the outer are as short as in 
the next section.— The following seem to be forms of one species, but I am far from 
confident about this. - 
l. A. SEMECARPIFOLIA proper; leąves rather thinly coriaceous glaucous beneath, 
panicles equalling the leaves, fruit 3-8 in. 
Var. angustifolia, Meissn. 1. c. ; leaves 3-5 by 1-1} in. 'elliptic-oblong or -lanceo- 
.late obtuse or subacute glaucous beneath, panicles as long as the leaves, fruit $ in. 
rather narrower.— Ceylon and the Concan. ` 
Var. macrocarpa; leaves 4—7 in. elliptic-oblong subacute very glaucous beneath 
tip rounded, fruit 1 in., peduncle much thickened.—Ceylon, Thwaites (C. P. 2269). 
Var. rufa; young parts and young leaves beneath rufous-hoary, leaves broadly 
cuneate-obovate very coriaceous red when dry tip rounded, panicles as long as the 
leaves, fruit 4 in.—Concan, Herb. Dalzeil. 
Var. parvifolia; leaves 2-3 in. obovate very glaucous beneath tip rounded, petiole 
very short panicles much shorter than the leaves. Wight Ie. t. 1827. — Courtallam, 
ight. 
2. A. peduncularis, Hook. f.; quite glabrous, branches slender, 
leaves membranous elliptic-lanceolate obtusely subcaudate-acuminate, nerves , 
6-10 pair, panicles very slender few-fld. much shorter than the leaves 
perianth glabrous outer segments rather smaller, stamens very short. 
Haasia peduncularis, Nees Syst. Laurin. 376; Meissn. in DO. Prodr. xY. 1. 
6l. Machilus peduncularis, Nees in Wall. Pl. As, Rar. ii, 70. Perm 
peduncularis, Nees Syst. Laurin. 125 (excl. syn. Rumph.). edun- 
cularis, Wall. Cat. 2596. ( J umph.) Laurus p 
PenANG, Wallich. 
Branches with white bark, except ‘the first year’s, whic smooth and very 
slender. Leaves 4-6 by 141-2 in., rather wavy ‘rom " their Nain teatere, base very 
acute; nerves beneath much raised, slender, arching and meeting far within the 
margin; petiole 3-3 in., very slender. Panicles 1-1} in., peduncle and branches 
filiform; flowers jj in., pedicelled. Perianth subglobose, segments short, uite 
glabrous without (persistent, Nees). Stamens very short, hairy ; staminodes ? D ruit 
according to Nees immature, ovoid, in a cylindric fleshy curved pedicel two inches 
long and as thick as a goose-quill.— Wallich's specimens in the Linnæan Society have 
neither flower nor fruit, but I find one or two flowers in Herb. Hook. which W 
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