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` Actinodaphne.)  oxxvm. Laurinen. (J. D. Hooker.) 149 
. nerves 6-8 pair very slender, flowers in simple fascicles, male subglobose 
shortly pedicelled, female campanulate shortly 6-cleft. A. salicina, Bed- 
dome Fl. Sylv. t. 295, and Forest Man. 186 (not of Meissn.). 
Deccan PENINSULA ; Tinnevelly, Beddome. . 
, Apparently a shrub, with slender whorled glabrous branches. Leaves }-1} in. 
diam., 4-8 in a whorl, minutely impressed-reticulate on both surfaces ; petiole 3-3 in. 
Flowers; male $ in. diam., stamens nearly glabrous; female }.in. long, tube silky 
outside villous within, lobes obtuse glabrous deciduous. Style slender, glabrous ; 
stigmas 3, lobulate, stipitate.—Near M. molochina in habit, but the slender nerves and 
female flowers are very different. Ithink this is undoubtedly what Beddome has 
red as 4. salicina, referring it (For. Man.) to Wight’s var. abbreviata : he 
figures the style as hairy, stigma 4-cleft, fruiting calyx cupular with deciduous lobes, 
tcu 4 lines in diameter. Female flower same form as in Litsea zeylanica, Wight 
c. t. 1844, 
— 7. A. lanata, Meissn. in DO. Prodr. xv. 1.919; branchlets and young 
leaves densely softly rusty-tomentose, leaves whorled penninerved coriaceous 
Mm. elliptic-lanceolate acuminate glaucous beneath, nerves 8-10 pair 
Very slender, flowers in sessile clusters, fruit pisiform seated on the wholly 
Persistent 6-lobed perianth. 
Nireurni Mrs., Wight, Gardaer.. 
Leaves 4-8 in a whorl ; midrib and petiole rusty-tomentose, at length glabrons; 
petiole i-i in., rather slender. Fruit $ in. diam., pedicel about as long stout- 
Probably a broad-leaved state of A. salicina. It is not a Ceylon plant, and it is 
erroneously placed in the section Notholitsea in the Prodromus. 
8. A. madraspatana, Beddome in Herb.; branchlets and petioles 
pubescent, leaves whorled penninerved 6-10 in. elliptic-lanceolate obtuse 
glaucous beneath, nerves 8-10 pair very oblique, flowers 1n dense globose 
silkil tomentose clusters, females very shortly peduncled. A. Hookeri, 
T ongifolia, Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 219. A. Hookeri, Beddome 
or. Fl. t. 296 (excl. locality of Sikkim). 
Dzocaw PENINSULA; on the Cuddepah Hills, Wight, Beddome. , 
ranchlets very robust, minutely but closely tomentose. Leaves 4-8 in a whorl, 
Pale green when dry, youngest densely clothed with long golden silky hairs (as ty 
fargo stifolia); midrib and nerves strong but not stout, orange-red ; nerv *silkily 
amt; petiole 4-2 in., stout. Male fl. à in. diam. ; lobes oblong, membranous, $i h t 
ny Without; glabrous within. Ovary 0. Fruit not seen.— Beddome remarks T it 
this is the only Laurineous plant of the Cuddepah Hills (except, I suppose, Cassy tha) d d 
1S Very near 4 angustifolia, but the leaves are more obtuse, glaucous beneath, a 
i e male fl. are much larger, Meissner describes the leaves as triple-nerved, but the 
wer pair are too short to admit of this. 
9. A. Hookeri i in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 218. (exel. var. y); 
branchlets and young Meisen, densely softly rusty-tomentose or yilla, | 
eaves whorled penninerved (rarely ‘subtriple-nerved) 5-8 in. or 
ovate- or elliptic-lanceolate finely acuminate glabrous or tomentose ones b 
Nerves 6-8 pair very slender, male fl. clustered, fem. umbelle Nj ub 
a cemose on a short stout peduncle, fruit ellipsoid seated on t a 2: 
ickened Subcampanulate entire perianth-tube. A. angustifolia, Nees ? ; 
erb, Ind. Or. H. f. g T 
The Coxcax and Can " ks, Law, Dalxell. 
: ARA ; on the Ghats, Stocks, ». 
oung leaves and branches almost woolly ; buds large, silky Le d green when 
dry, sometimes 8 in. diam., smooth and often polished above, hardly g Petiole 1-1} in , 
es even when old then often rusty villous (var. dasypoda, Meissn.) d P diam . fem. 
ways tomentose, Flowers silky ; males very shortly pedicelled, ł in. 3 
