158 CXXVIII. LAURINEX. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Litscea. 
which represents the perianth of 6 equal lobes toothed at the tips; which is totally 
unlike anything I have met with in the large suite of specimens examined. . 
Var. 1. L. sebifera proper; leaves 3-6 in. thin oblong glabrous above sparingly 
pubescent beneath. L. sebifera & tetranthera, Pers. Synops. ii. 4. L. multiflora, 
Blume Bijd. ii. 564. L. chinensis, Lamk. Dict. iii. 574. — Tetranthera laurifolia, 
multiflora, racemoso-umbellata & Roxburghii, Blume Mus. Bot. ii. 373, 374, and in-: 
cluding Var. Jacquinii, Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv.1.178,179. T. laurifolia (? Jacq. 
Hort. Schoenb. i. 59; t. 113); Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 823; Bot. Heg. t. 893 ; Blume 
Mus. Bot. i. 372; Wall. Cat. 2555 A, D; Brand. For. Fl. 319; Gamblé Man. Ind. 
Timb. 310. T. Roxburghii, Nees in Wail. Pl. As. Rar. ii. 65 and iii. 30, and Syst. 
Laurin. 515; Thwaites Enum. 255. T. apetala, Roxb. Cor. Pl. ii. 25, t. 147, and 
Fl. Ind. iii. 819; Gærtn. f. Fruct. iii. 226, t. 222; Wall. Cat. 2554 B, C. T. capi- 
tata, Herb. Roxb. Tomex tetranthera & sebifera, Willd. Sp. Pl. ii. 839, 840. 
Sebifera glutinosa, Lour. Fl. Coch. ii. 783. Laurus involucrata, Konig in Retz. Obs. 
vi. 27. Gaja nippeli, Jones in Asiat. Res. iv. 303.—Widely distributed. 
Var. 2. glabraria; leaves usually larger more ovate and acute usually more to- 
mentose beneath. L. glabraria & levis, Juss. in Ann. Mus. vi. 212. L. geminata, 
Blume Bijd. 564. L. platyphylla, Pers. Synops. Tetranthera geminata, glabraria & 
platyphylla, Nees Syst. Laurin. 559, 569, 570. T. citrifolia & tersa, Spreng. Syst. 
Veg. ii. 266, 267. T. apetala, Wall. Cat. 2554, in part. T. polycephala, 
Wall. mss. T. laurifolia, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. ii. 66 and iii. 30, and Syst. 
Laurin. 519; Benth. Fl. Austral. v. 305. T. litoralis, Blume Mus. Bot. i. 375, and 
B. glabrescens, Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 180. T. laurifolia, vars. citrifolia, 
platyphylla & attenuata, Blume l. c. 374, and (including var. longifolia) Meissn. 
l. c. 179. Glabraria tersa, Linn. Mant. 276. G. tersa & litoralis, Miquel Fl. Ind. 
Bat. i. 941, 943.— Widely distributed. 
Var. 3. tomentosa; leaves ovate or oblong acute and branches densely] softly to- 
mentose on both surfaces or sparingly above. Tetranthera tomentosa, Nees in Walt. 
Pl. As. Rar, ii. 65, and Syst. Laurin. 511 (not of Rozb.). T. laurifolia? Wall. Cat. 
2550 C.—Western Himalaya; Sirmore, Wallich; Kumaon and Garwhal, alt. 2- 
3000 ft. Birma and Tenasserim, Wallich, &c.— Except by the compound umbels 
this is undistinguishable from L. tomentosa, and favours the view taken by Dalzell 
and Gibson, that tomentosa and sebifera are forms of one species. 
7. L. ligustrina, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. ii. 65, and Syst. Lauri. 
513, 677 (Tetranthera); glabrous or the shoots pubescent, leaves m. 
persistent alternate penninerved shortly petioled elliptic oblong or obovate: 
obtuse or acute shining and reticulated above, nerves 6-8 pair, umbels 
solitary or clustered many-fid., bracts glabrous, perianth very incomplete 
or 0. Tetranthera ligustrina, Nees; Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 180; 
Wight Ie. t. 1835; Wall. Cat. 2555 C, E. T. celastroides, Mig. in P" 
Hohenack. n. 1336. 
Deccan PENINSULA; on the Ghats, from the Nilghiri Hills and southward. 
A bush or small tree, similar at first sight to states of L. sebifera, but more 
glabrous, leaves always small, with very fine reticulation above, shorter petioles 
rarely à in, and simple umbels, with slender pedicels and glabrous bracts. . ila 
ments villous. Fruit not seen.—The Ceylon plant referred here by Thwaites 18 the 
following. 
8. L. undulata, Hook. f.; branchlets petioles and inflorescence hoary” 
pubescent, leaves 3-6 in. alternate penninerved coriaceous linear-oblonf 
obtuse glabrous except the midrib beneath, margins waved, umbels solitary 
and clustered stoutly pedicelled, bracts pubescent, perianth very incomplete 
Tetranthera ligustrina, Thwaites Enum, 254, not of Nees. 
CEYLON; in the Central Province, Walker, Macre. v6 
Branches robust. Leaves 1-1} in. broad, shining and not reticulated abo h 
pale grey-brown beneath, nerves 10-12 pair, slender; petiole 3-3 in., at lengt 
