cy cm 
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Actinodaphne.] cxxvir LAURINE®. (J. D. Hooker.) 151 
nerved coriaceous elliptic-oblong rounded at both ends glaucous beneath 
minutely impressedly reticulate, nerves 6-8 pair very slender raised on both 
surfaces, male fl. large in sessile clusters stoutly pedicelled. A. glauca, 
B. Walkeri, Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 213. 
CEYLON, Walker. . 
Branchlets petioles and strong midrib beneath rusty-tomentose. Leaves 4-6 ina 
Whorl ; petiole + in., stout. Male fl. } in. diam., tomentose, pedicels i in. slender. 
Bracts about 14, 5-fld. Perianth villous without and at the base within. Filaments 
Woolly at the base. Ovary and slender style glabrous.—This is the plant (the specimen 
indeed) described by Nees as A. glauca, and which Meissner referred to a variety of the 
glauca of Thwaites, which again is a different plant (my pisifera). Nees describes 
the leaves as glaucous above (no doubt a slip), and as “ scrobiculo-reticulata, allud- 
ing to the impressed minute reticulation which in a less marked degree is not un- 
Common in the genus. 
14. A. pisifera, Hook. f; quite labrous, branches slender, leaves 
in, whorled penninerved p ein obtuse impressed punctate on 
th surfaces glaucous beneath with 6-8 pairs of nerves, unopened clusters 
of flowers Solitary sessile pisiform quite glabrous 5-fld. bracts eciliate. A. 
lauca, Thwaites Enum. 256; Meisen. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1.213, not of Nees ; 
eddome For, Man, 186. l 
CEYLON; at Pedrotatagalla, alt. 7-8000 ft., Thwaites (C. P. 2536). _ : 
A tree, 30-40 ft, (Thwaites). Leaves in Thwaites’ indifferent specimen thinly 
coriaceous, with recurved margins, base acute; petiole j in., very slender. fectly 
panded clusters of flowers 2 in. diam., quite globose, pale, with about 14 per octy 
glabrous bracts, the outer smallest. Sepals 6; substrigosely hairy in bud. Filamer ` 
ovary and style quite glabrous.— This is quite distinct from 4. glauca in the yr e 
glabrous branches, and in the flower-buds, which are scattered like small peas a one 
e branches, and by the glabrous eciliate bracts. Stamens young, but d y 
quite glabrous, Thwaites describes the fem. fl. as 1} line long, with the dde f rait 
pedicels rusty-hairy ; the sterile stamens as spathulate, acute, glabrous, and i d from 
c Poe obose, on the slightly enlarged crenulate perianth, I have descri 
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Tf Female flowers in peduncled umbels or elusters; or mixed, some 
S celled simply, others umbelled on peduncles in the same inflorescence. 
(See also 4. madraspatana, lanata & Hookeri.) 
15. A. sesquipedalis, Hook. f. & Thoms. in Herb. Ind. Or.; branches 
Very robust tomentose, leaves LO A auninerved very coriaceous 1-2 feet 
linear or obl ini beneath, nerves 
anceolate acute shining above subglaucous , 
15-2 pair strong venules 0 or faint, fem. fl. solitary and umbellate on 
HN uncles in the same cluster, fruit globose on a broad fla "B lume) 
renate disk, Litsæa macrophylla, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 305 (not of . 
minm sesquipedalis, Wall. Cat. 6809. 
ENASSERIM ; at Mer ui, Griffith. PrNANG, Wallich. il. 
lons, Hes as thick as the fore Anger, terete, smooth, finely pubesocnt, vci va 
us Y hirsute. Leaves many in a whorl, 2-7 in. diam., dark Diori sh glo y length 
Argest more membranous, base very acute, finely pubescent beneath, 
la - Ver. erves; petiole 
Slabrous, surfaces not reticulate, midrib impresséd above, bu’ not the diam, globose, 
3, Stout, 4-1 in. p it in cluster i 
A it, $— . l t . Fruit in cius . - 
= m iam, shining ; peduncles and pedicels } in., very stout, hard, pubescent ; dis- 
fa erm enlarged and thiekened perianth hard, rugose outside, flat an iri ^ in the 
ce—Kurz has referred this to Blume's Litsea macrophylla, which di 
` Much smaller leaves not narrowed at the base and short petiole. 
16. A, Maingayi, Hook. f.; branches very robust, leaves whorled 
