156 CXXVIII. LAURINEE. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Litscea. 
nearly horizontal or obliquely ascending, base acute; petiole }-1 in., very slender. 
Umbels X in. diam. ; bracts membranous, not in decussating pairs, glabrous or sparsely 
silky ; flowers with usually villous white pedicels ; males about $ in. diam., with an 
abortive ovary ; females smaller, stamens imperfect, stigma disciform. Sepals men 
branous, obovate, subequal. Stamens 9-10 in the male, 3 of them 2-glandular ; fila- 
ments usually hairy; anthers quadrate. Fruit 1-4 in. diam.— This is not the 
L. citrata of Hong Kong. 
2. b. Kingii, Hook. f.; quite glabrous, branches black when dry, 
leaves 3-4 in. alternate deciduous penninerved short-petioled thinly coria- 
ceous greenish when dry elliptic-lanceolate acute glaucous and reticulate 
beneath, nerves 12-18 pair very slender and spreading, umbels solitary or 
few and corymbose stoutly pedicelled recurved in bud 5-fid., fruit small 
globose, perianth-base not enlarged. L. citrata, Herb. Calcutta, in part. 
Tetranthera No. 5, Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. & T. 
SIKKIM HiMALAYA, alt. 6-8000 ft, J. D. H., King, Clarke. KHASIA MTS; 
Griffith. 
D deciduous bush, with a delightful spicy fragrance ; branches stout, quite smooth ; 
terminal buds with the young leaves quite glabrous and convolute (like a lanceolate or 
perulate bud). Leaves thin but firm in texture, shining and reticulate above, with 
pale nerves, base acute; petiole 1-1 in. Umbels À in. diam.; bracts 4—5, quite 
glabrous, not decussately opposite; flowers with short quite glabrous pedicels ; males 
about à in. diam, Sepals 6, oblong, unequal. Stamens 8-12, 4 or 6 2-glandular; 
filaments glabrous. Ovary minute; female in smaller fewer-fld. umbels ; perianth 
more irregular; stigma discoid. Fruit 4 in. diam.— Closely allied to L. citrata, but 
quite distinct in the stouter branches, more elliptic acute leaves, short petioles, and 
much stouter pedicels of the umbels. 
** Terminal buds perulate. 
3. L. sericea, Wall. Cat. 2545 (Tetranthera); branches black when 
ary, terminal buds perulate, leaves 3-4 in. alternate deciduous- penninerve 
subcoriaceous oblong-lanceolate base acute softly tomentose and reticulate 
beneath, nerves slender 10-12 pair, umbels solitary very shortly pedicelled 
8-20 fld., bracts 4 caducous, fruit long-pedicelled small subglobose on the. 
very small flat perianth-tube. Tetranthera sericea, Wall.; Nees in Wall. 
Pl. As. Rar. ii. 67, and Syst. Laurin. 565; Blume Mus. Bot. i. 376. T 
sericea and T. sikkimensis (excl. syn. T. elongata and hab, Khasia), Meiss. 
in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 181. 
TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, alt. 9-11,000 ft.; from Nepal, Wallich, to Bhota®, 
Griffith. —DisTRIB. Munnipore. 
A small very aromatic tree, sometimes 50 ft. high; bud-scales rigid, outer short 
obtuse, innermost long, lanceolate, acuminate ; branches robust. Leaves pale brown 
when dry, young clothed with fulvous brown silky shining tomentum, base very 
acute; petiole } in., tomentose.  Umbels nearly 1 in. diam., on very short tomentose 
peduncles ; bracts glabrous; flowers pedicelled, tin. diam. Sepals 6, rounded, hairy 
at the base within. Stamens 12, short, filaments hairy; anthers broad, square ; 
glands very large. Ovary ovoid, style stout,. stigma very large. Fruit à in. long 
pedicels 2-1 in. long. 
4. L. oreophila, Hook. f.; quite glabrous, branches rather slender, 
leaves alternate penninerved deciduous ovate-lanceolate acuminate finely 
reticulate on both surfaces, nerves 8-10 pair very slender, umbels solitary 
pedicelled ovoid in bud and mucronate 6-fld., bracts 4 broadly ovate acu 
cucullate glabrous, flowers tomentose. Lindera Hookeri, Meissn. in pe 
Prodr. xv. 1. 245. 
SIKKIM Himataya ; Lachoong Valley, alt. 10-11,000 ft., J. D. H. 
