148 . — CXXVIIL LAURINEX. (J. D. Hooker) [Actinodaphme. 
flowers clustered subsessile or pedicelled, fruit oblong seated on the very 
small quite entire base of the perianth. 
SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 3-6000 ft., J. D. H., Clarke, King.—DISTRIB. Munnipore. 
Branches very slender, filaments glabrous; branchlets and young leaves beneath 
puberulous. Leaves in whorls of 4-6, very thin, greenish and almost shining above, 
paler beneath, not impressed-reticulate; petiole 3-3 in., slender. Flowers very small, 
subsessile, each 2-4-bracteate independently of the bracts surrounding the whole 
cluster. Filaments and style glabrous. Fruit 3 in. long, top rounded, pedicel about 
as long.—The inflorescence is very anomalous. 
3. A. concolor, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii. 31, and Syst. Laurin. 
593; leaves whorled penninerved 5-7 in. thinly coriaceous elliptic or sub- 
cuneate-obovate acuminate base elongate shining above glaucous beneath, 
nerves 5-8 pair deeply impressed above, flowers subsessile in very small 
clusters. Wall. Cat. 6346; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 304. 
TENASSERIM ; at Tavoy, Gomez. 
Branches rather slender, young finely rusty-pubescent ; scales of leaf-buds clothed 
with long rufous silky hairs. Leaves in whorls of 3, usually broadest above the 
middle, base much produced, quite smooth and not reticulate above, young obscurely 
pubescent beneath ; petiole} in. Clusters of flowers }—} in. diam. ; flower-buds silkily 
tomentose, very shortly pedicelled.—Described from Wallich’s type specimen, which 
has buds only; it answers to Meissner's B. fagifolia, but it is clear that his concolor 
and its variety are only large and small leaves of the same plant. 
4. A. malaccensis, Hook. f.; branchlets leaves beneath and 
petioles brown-tomentose, leaves whorled penninerved 4—8 in. coriaceous 
elliptic-oblong obtuse or subacute polished above, nerves 10-12 pairs strong 
beneath, female fl. in dense globose clusters very shortly pedicelled or sub- 
sessile, fruit globose seated on the very small cup-shaped thickened perianth- i 
ube. 
MALACCA, Maingay. , 
Branches rather stout, densely tomentose. Leaves dark brown when dry, 1}-3 in. 
diam., smooth above, at length glabrous beneath, base acute or subacute ; petiole 
stout, j-3 in. Clusters of female fl. globose, 4 in. diam. ; pedicels } in. long. Perianth 
turbinate, 4 in. diam., tube villous within, lobes short, rounded, glabrous. Style 
slender, glabrous ; stigma lobulate, Fruit j in.diam.; cup } in. diam.; pedicel very 
short and thick. 
b. Species of the Deccan Peninsula. 
5. A. salicina, Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 212; leaves whorled 
penninerved coriaceous 4-6 in. linear-lanceolate subcaudate-acuminate 
glaucous beneath glabrous, nerves 10-12 pair very slender, fruit globose 
seated on the enlarged 6-lobed perianth-tube. 
NinanriRi HILLS, Wight, Gardner. 
Branches slender, branchlets densely rusty-tomentose. Leaves 4-8 in a whorl, 
1-1 in. broad, flat, hardly shining above; petiole 34-3 in. Flowers not seen. Fruit 
j in. diam. ; pedicel as long.—Very near A. stenophylla of Ceylon in habit, but very 
different in the fruiting calyx. The supposed Ceylon specimens mentioned by 
Meissner are not so; they have no collector's name nor loeality, and are no doubt 
Peninsular. Ihave not seen var. abbreviata, which appears to be founded on a shorter 
leaved specimen. : 
,,9. A. campanulata, Hook. f.; glabrous except the tomentose sub" 
silky inflorescence, leaves whorled penninervod 2-3 in. thinly coriaceous 
elliptic obtuse base acute green on both surfaces or subglaucous beneath, 
