o — —— (c—— 1 — 
Actinodaphne.] CXXVIII. LAURINEX. (J. D. Hooker.) 155: 
or compressed, formed of globose clusters of 3-5 flowers enclosed in 6-8 subsilkily 
pubescent rounded concave bracts; peduncle of raceme slender, with a few small 
scale, Flowers too young to analyze.—This may be a Lindera, for the inflorescence 
lat resembles that of L. caudata; or possibly a Litsea of the section 
eoesea. 
ll. LYTSIEA, Lamk. (TETRANTHERA, Jacq.) 
Evergreen, rarely deciduous trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, rarely 
, Opposite or subopposite, penninerved, rarely triple-nerved, leaf-buds naked 
or scaly. Flowers dicecious, umbéllate; umbels 4—6- rarely more-flowered, 
sessile or pedicelled ; pedicels clustered rarely solitary, axillary or on the 
eaf-scars, sometimes racemose or fascicled on a common peduncle; invo- 
lucral bracts 4-6, rarely more, concave, coriaceous or membranous. Perianth- 
ube ovoid campanulate or very short; lobes or segments 6—4, rarely more or 
ewer, equal or unequal, or in a few wanting. Stamens 6, 9, 12, rarely more 
or fewer; filaments of Ist and 2nd series usually eglandular, of the 3rd (and 
ih if present) 2-glandular; anthers all introrse, 4-celled. Fruita drupe or 
succulent, seated on the often greatly enlarged perianth-tube.—S ecies 
about 140, - Tropical and Eastern Asia, Australasia, the Pacific Islands, 
rare in Africa and America. 
After many weeks of study Iam unable to offer a satisfactory account of the 
Indian Litsæas, flower of one or other sex and fruit of most being wanted to determine 
ìr affinities and formulate the diagnoses of the species. The sections Conodaphne 
ftd licodaphne pass into one another, and cannot be distinguished without ripe 
0 A which ìs wanting in two-thirds of the plants referred by Meissner to the first 
h: ese sections, Blume’s section Tomingodaphne, if confined to the deciduous 
j^ „Species, may, I think, be retained. . io Wie 
di ad be borne in mind that neither Nees nor Meissner cites Roxburgh’s É i r 
* Flor » 88 also that Roxburgh adopted different names for the same plant in is 
Y nu dm his unpublished “ Icones," and in the Calcutta Bot. Garden. I have been 
eae ations In identifying Indian species with Malayan, for want of better specimens 
ran e atter, I think it probable that sect. Meolitsea will be restored to generic 
» aS Tetradenia, from its habit and floral characters, 
Sect. T. Tomin id alternate, penni- 
lir godaphne, Blume. Leaves deciduous, ». 
ved, terminal buds usually perulate (clothed with imbricate chartaceous 
of rae Perianth-segments 6; tube not enlarged in fruit.—Mountain species, 
11,000 feet elevation. 
* Terminal buds naked. 
l. X, citrata Bl jj i b hes black when 
. ume Bijd. 565; quite glabrous, branch 
dry, leaves 5-7 in. deciduous alternate long-petioled penninerved mem- 
nous greenish when dry lanceolate caudate-acuminate glaucous beneath, 
Lerveg 19— . N a very short 
15 pair very slender, umbels solitary or Cree p erianih-base 
uncle 4-10-fld . ] T 
+ pedicels very slender, fruit small g 
Boi enlarged. Tetranthera citata, Nees Syst. Laurin. 560; dr ved rg 
Nees in ps, Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. i. 958. T. polyantha, Wall. Cat. 253%; 
Pay Wall. Pl. As. Rar, ii. 67, and Syst. Laurin. 545; Bea n 
Fo, TL E 1s (including B. citrata, but excluding China as locality); Kurz 
* £0, 1, "m 
a, STEEN HIMALAYA; from Sikkim to Mishmii, alt. 5-9000 ft. Kmasra Mrs., 
A deci " - Ava, Kurz.— DrsTRIB. Java. 
slender „200S bush or small tree, with a delightful 
us batte smooth; terminal bud naked. Leaves . 
> right green above, dull glaucous beneath, youngest silky ; 
rance of oranges; branches 
geo most membranous of the 
nerves variable, from 
