146 CXXVIII. LAURINEX. (J. D. Hooker) [Alseodaphne. 
rusty-pubescent, 3 outer segments much shorter, fruit 24-8 in. long cylindric- 
oblong, pericarp thin 5-ribbed. 
MALACCA, Maingay. . 
Branchlets rather stout, glabrous. Leaves 8-12 by 3—4 in., brown on both sur- 
faces, narrowed above the cordate base and then dilating; nerves raised on both 
surfaces, very numerous in the basal portion; petiole } in, very stout. Panicles 
2-6 in.; peduncle and rachis rather stout and branches glabrous ; flowers ṣẹ in diam., 
subglobose, bright yellow, crowded on short pedicels, rusty-pubescent. Outer perianth- 
segments broadly ovate, inner rounded. Stamens very short, hairy, as are the stami- 
nodes. Fruit very remarkable, slightly curved, dull red, somewhat narrowed towards 
the base, top rounded; pericarp coriaceons, ribs very narrow. Seed cylindric.—A 
distinct species. 
*** Perianth unknown. 
7. A. ? grandis, Nees Syst. Laurin. 183, in part ; glabrous, branchlets 
very stout, leaves subverticillate large thickly coriaceous cuneately obovate 
obtuse or subacute glaucous beneath, nerves 8-10 pair very strong beneath 
impressed above, panicles shorter than the leaves, fruit globosely ellipsoid 
apiculate, pedicel very short thickened. Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 28, 
in part. Persea grandis in part, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii. 32. Laurus 
grandis, Wall. Cat. 2594 C, D. 
TENASSERIM ; Tavoy, Gomez. BURMA, at Amherst, Wallich. ; 
Branchlets woody, as thick as a swan's quill, bark rough, Leaves 6-12 in., 
greenish brown when dry, base very acute; petiole stout, 4-1 in. Fruiting panicles 
not very stout, bearing tuberous excrescences (insect nidi?) on the rachis and under 
the fruit, the pedicel of which is often deformed. Fruit 1 in. long, sometimes seated 
on the diseased pedicel, which is then woody, rough and as large as a small nut; the 
healthy pedicels appear to be short, 3 in. long and cylindric. 
8. A. ? costalis, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. ii. 72, and Syst. Laurin. 
185; glabrous, leaves 19-24 in. very coriaceous oblanceolate or cuneately 
obovate glaucous beneath, top rounded or subacute, nerves 19-20 pairs very 
strong beneath. Meissn. in DC, Prodr. xv. 1. 29. Laurus grandis, Wall. 
Cat. 2594 B. 
SINGAPORE, Wallich.—DrsrRrB. Burma; Nammarsa, Griffith (Actinodaphne, 
Kew Distrib. 4326). . 
Leaves pale, 5-8 in. diam., opaque, when dry midrib flat above, nerves hardly im- 
mersed, base very narrow ; petiole stout, 1-3 in, —Wallich's specimens consist of leaves , 
only, Griffith’s of leaves and branches; the latter are as thick as the thumb, smooth, 
striate with a very thick pith, and bear axillary globose flower-buds j-j in. diam., 
clothed with orbicular silky scales.—The genus is altogether doubtful. 
9. A. crassipes, Hook. f.; branchlets and shoots rusty-tomentose, 
leaves coriaceous scattered long-petioled elliptic-lanceolate acuminate fal- 
cately recurved, nerves 6-8 pair capillary, fruiting peduncles very t" ick 
woody, fruit 4 in. ellipsoid twice as long as the very thick woody cylindric 
pedicel. 
Maracca, Maingay. . 
Branches stout, woody, smooth, bark ashy. Leaves 4-5 by 1-1} in., very pale, 
nerves excessively slender and very laxly reticulate on both surfaces, base very acute; 
petiole slender, 3-1 in. Fruiting peduncles numerous, 3-4 in., very strict, often 
thickened upwards, as rigid and woody as the branches and thicker at the top than ic 
. pedicel is broad ; pedicels 1—2 in. long, cylindric, black, confluent with the thickened 
ends of the panicle. Fruit smooth, “dark blue-black, pruinose, globose, pedicel red; 
Maingay. 
