150 /— OXXVII. LAURINEX. (J.D. Hooker) [Actinodaphne. 
fewer, longer pedicelled, umbels sessile or subracemose on a short peduncle. Fila- 
ments woolly. Fruit jin. long; perianth-cup as broad, thick ; pedicel very stout, 
$-1 in. long.—Habit of A. lanata, but-distinguished from.all its Peninsular allies by 
the broad leaves ending in long points. It may, however, be a form of angusti olia, 
in which case madraspatana and lanata may be varieties of it. It is erroneously. 
placed in the section Notholitsea in the Prodromus. 
c. Species of Ceylon. 
10. A. molochina, Nees Syst. Laurin. 603 (excl. var. y.); leaves 1-3 
in. whorled penninerved rigidly coriaceous elliptic obovate or cuneate- 
obovate obtuse shining above, beneath tomentose glabrous or glaucous, fem. 
fl. in simple clusters shortly pedicelled, fruit globose seated on the 6-fid 
erianth-tube. Meissn. in DO. Prodr, xv.1. 211; Thwaites Enum. 257; 
èght Ic. t. 1843; Beddome For. Man. 186. 
CEYLON ; Central Province, alt. 6-8000 ft., Walker, &c. . 
A small tree, branches rather stout glabrous or scurfily tomentose. Leaves rarely orbi- 
cular, shining above, hard ; nerves 4-6 pair, very prominent beneath, variable and some- 
times triple-nerved on the same branch with the penninerved ; petiole short, stout, rarely 
iin. Bracts 9, outer smaller, 6-flowered. Flowers silky without, glabrous within ; 
pedicel 2 in., stout. Style glabrous. Fruit “about } in. diam.” (Thwaites), seated 
on the scarcely enlarged perianth.—Meissner has two varieties, but their characters 
are found on the same branch, and many more as good might be made of this most 
variable species, the extremes of which would but for.intermediates be regarded as 
distinct species. 
Var. Moonii ; leaves ovate or elliptic-lanceolate obtusely acuminate. A. Moonii, 
Thwaites Enum. 256 (not of Meissner).—Ceylon, alt. 5-7000 ft., Moon, Sir G. 
McKenzie.— Meissner, misled by a misplaced ticket of Thwaites, took a glabrous leaved 
form of molochina for this. The only specimens are very bad. 
1l. A. stenophylla, Thwaites Enum. 256; leaves 2-5 in. whorled 
penninerved coriaceous linear-oblong or -lanceolate obtuse quite glabrous 
glaucous beneath, nerves 10-15 pair, fem. fl. in simple clusters shortly 
pedicelled, fruit globose seated on the entire cup-shaped perianth-tube. 
Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 212; Beddome For. Man. 186. A. Thwaitesi, 
Meissen. l. c. 
CEYLON; in the Oova and Badulla districts, ascending to 3000 ft. 
A tree, 20-30 ft. ; branchlets glabrous or rusty-pubescent. Leaves 4-8 ina whorl, 
4-} in. broad, hardly shining above, midrib beneath stout, nerves usually very regular 
and slender; petiole }-4 in. Bracts subsilky and ciliate. Flowers many, in round 
elusters i in. diam., fulvous silky. — Perianth-lobes wholly deciduous. Style villous. 
Fruit 3 in. diam., black, pedicel 4-} in.—Small forms with leaves 14 by j in. look 
very different, but are united by intermediates with the larger leaved. ` 
12. A. elegans, Thwaites Enwm. 256; leaves 2-4 in. whorled penni- 
nerved thiuly coriaceous lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate caudate-acuminate 
quite glabrous glaucous beneath, nerves 8-10 pairs very faint, fem. D. 
in simple clusters very shortly pedicelled, fruit globose seated on the entire 
eup-shaped perianth-tube. eissn, in DC, Prodr. xv. 1. 212; Beddome 
For. Man. 186. . 
CEYLON ; Central Province and Pasdoon Corle, ascending to 8000 ft., Thwaites. 
A small tree; branches slender. Leaves 4-6 in a whorl, nerves very finely reticu- 
lated above almost evanescent, capillary beneath; petiole very slender, i in. 
Flowers in subsolitary clusters, rusty-tomentose, 4 in. diam. Perianth-lobes wholly 
deciduous. Filaments villous. Fruit nearly $ in, diam. ; pedicel } in. 
13. A. glauca, Nees Syst. Laurin. 599 ; leaves 2-4 in. whorled penni- 
