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162 CXXVII LAURINEX. (J. D. Hooker.) Piitsced. 
Sovran Deccan, Heyne, Wight. Tinnevelly Hills, alt. 83-4000 ft., Beddome. | 
An evergreen straggling bush; bark brownish. Leaves greenish when dry, quite 
smooth above, loosely reticulate beneath, base acute ; petiole }—3 in., slender. Umbels 
4 in. diam. ; pedicel i-i in.; common peduncle in fem. à in. or less; flowers quite 
glabrous. Sepals 5 or 6, oblong, unequal, very transparent and gland-dotted. Stamens 
in the male 10, filaments glabrous, 6 2-glandular ; anthers nearly square, gland-dotted ; 
outer stamens of fem. with small subspathulate heads, inner short with large glands. 
Ovary ovoid, tapering into the slender style; stigma large, discoid. Fruit unknown. 
—Very closely allied to Tetr. gemelliflora, Miquel, of Java, which has a remarkable 
oblong fruit nearly 2 in. long seated on the unaltered perianth-tube ; it is possibly a 
variety of it. . 
18. E. firma, Blume Mus. Bot. i. 381 (Tetranthera) ; branches glabrous, 
leaves 3-7 in. alternate penninerved red-brown when dry rigidly coriaceous 
oblong or obovate smooth above beneath minutely pubescent with 10-12 
pairs of very strong arching nerves and slender parallel cross-nervules, male 
umbels 5-fld., pedicels sometimes on a very short peduncle, perianth densely 
villous, sepals narrow unequal. Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 190; Miquel 
Fl. Ind. Bat. i. 950. 
Matacoa, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1271).—Dz1sTRIs. Borneo, Celebes. . 
An evergreen tree or bush ; branches woody, bark wrinkled when dry and quite 
glabrous. Leaves 3-7 in., véry hard when dry, pale or dark red-brown, not reticulate 
above, often redder beneath; base acute or narrowed into the smooth glabrous petiole 
i-iin.long. Male umbels very numerous, axillary and at the old leaf-scars, jin. 
diam., pedicels 4-} in. ; bracts4, pubescent. Stamens 9-16, 3-6 2-glandular. Ovary 
filiform or 0. Fruit not seen. 
*** Leaves alternate, pubescent or tomentose beneath. 
19. L. grandis, Wall. Cat. 2552 (Tetranthera) ; branches very stout, 
and leaves beneath densely brown-tomentose, leaves 8-16 in. alternate pen- 
ninerved very thickly coriaceous and hard brown when dry oblong Or 
obovate-oblong obtuse smooth above beneath with 12-16 pairs of very strong 
spreading nerves and strong parallel cross-nervules, petiole very stout, male 
umbels large 5-7-fld. in sessile fascicles: or corymbose on a very stout 
duncle, sepals long narrow subequal silky. Tetranthera grandis, Meissn. 
in DC. Prodr. xv, 1. 188; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 299. Polyadenia grandis, Nees 
in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. ii. 62, and Syst. Laurin, 574. 
"PxeGU and TENassERIM, Kurz. PENANG, Porter. MALACCA and SINGAPORE, 
Maingay. d 
A tree, 20-40 ft., with warted bark (Kurz). Leaves large, hard, 3-7 in. broad, 
nerves impressed above, tip often rounded; base obtuse or rounded; petiole very 
stout, 1-2 in. Male umbels numerous, rather silkily tomentose, 3-1 in. diam., in bu 
as large as a pea; pedicels 4 in.; bracts 5, coriaceous. Sepals linear-elongate- 
Stamens 12-14, anthers short, 3-4-glandular. Fruit unknown.—I do not know 
Meissner’s 8. javanica (T. multiflora, Zoll., nor have I found amongst Wallich $ 
plants specimens of L. grandis from Birma (as cited by Meissner) A Bornean plan 
of Beccari (Sarawak n. 2537) closely resembles this; it is in bud only. 
20. L. polyantha, Juss. in Ann. Mus. vi. 211; branches and pot 
beneath pubescent or tomentose, leaves 3-16 in. alternate penninerved ¢ . 
taceous broadly or narrowly oblong ovate or obovate tip obtuse rounded or 
apiculate glabrous above strongly reticulate beneath base acute rounde à 
cordate, nerves 5-10 pair, umbels 5-6-fld. clustered and subcorymbose Tihe 
short peduncle, bracts 4-5, fruit globosely ellipsoid on a very small ponp a 
base. L. monopetala, Pers. Synops. ii. 4. Tetranthera monope Ro ii. 
Cor. Pl. ii, 26, t. 148, and FÌ. Ind. iii. 821; Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar V 
