164 CXXVIII. LAURINEE. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Litscea. 
Peau ; at Rangoon, M‘Clelland. TENASSERIM, Beddome. 
Very closely allied to L. amara, differing in the green very acuminate leaves ; the 
perianth is quite the same, as are the 8 stamens, 3 of which are 2-glandular. The 
female, however, seems distinct in resembling the male, in being pedicelled, and having 
a large discoid stigma. Fruit unknown.—Meissner’s B. assamica is a totally distinct 
plant (L. assamica, nob.), with slender nerves and leaves puberulous beneath. 
23. L. Kurzii, King in Herb. Caleutt.; branches stout leaves beneath 
and inflorescence shortly brown-tomentose, leaves 6-10 in. alternate penni- 
nerved pale coriaceous oblong or oblanceolate-oblong acute or acuminate 
smooth and minutely reticulate above beneath with 12-18 pair of very 
strong rather spreading nerves and strong parallel cross-nervules, male 
umbels axillary in clusters 5-fid., perianth densely villous, sepals large 
unequal. 
ANDAMAN ISLANDS, Kurz, &c. 
An evergreen tree? Leaves glabrous above except the midrib, with the nerves 
impressed, base acute or rounded ; petiole 1-1 in., stout. Umbels 4 in. diam. ; bracts 
rather thin, sparsely tomentose ; flowers densely villous without and within. Pe- 
rianth-lobes much larger than in Z. amara, and less unequal. Stamens 6-10, 3 2-glan- 
dular. Fruit unknown. 
Sect. IV. Cylicodaphne, Nees (gen.). Leaves persistent, alternate 
(rarely opposite in L. Wightiana), penninerved. Perianth-segments usually 
6, tube much enlarged disciform or cupular in fruit.—See also L. Blumet. 
(The fruit is known in most of the species; but not in most of the previous 
section, species of which may hence prove to be referable to this.) 
* Umbels solitary or fascicled, rarely corymbose; if racemose, the peduncle 
or rachis is very short. (Some species of the racemose section have the 
raceme occasionally reduced to an umbel, as L. Stocksii, Wightiana and 
others.) 
+ Leaves more or less pubescent or tomentose beneath. 
24. L. khasyana, Meissn.in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 185 (Tetranthera) ; 
branchlets leaves beneath and inflorescence finely pubescent, leaves 6-12 in. 
alternate penninerved oblong or ob long-lanceolate pale above white or 
glaucous beneath with 10-15 pairs of very strong nerves and slender cross- 
nervules, umbels 6—-8-fld . fascicled or subracemose on a very stout peduncle, 
fruit oblate much broader than the turbinate fleshy perianth-tube. Tetran- 
thera glauca, var. P Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. & T. 
Kasia Mrs.; on Ladder Hill, near Churra, alt. 2-4000 ft., J. D. H. & T. T. 
A tree; branches long, rather stout. Leaves 2-4 in. broad, above greenish and 
quite smooth with impressed nerves, beneath white or rather rusty, at length glabrous, 
base acute; petiole about 3-1 in., at first tomentose. Umbels shortly stoutly pe 
dicelled, flowering $ in. diam. ; bracts 4; peduncle 4-} in. Sepals silky without, 
glabrous within. Stamens (young) 7-9, glabrous. Ovary O in male, or very minute. 
Fruit 1 in. diam., greatly depressed, broadest above the middle, 3 in, diam., } in. long 
with the pedicel. 
Var. Hookeri; umbels larger, pedicel stouter, swollen perianth-tube as broad as 
the fruit which is larger. L. khasyana, Herb. Calcutt. Tetranthera Wightiana ? 
Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. & T. Cylicodaphne? Hookeri, Meissn. l. c. 209, excl. var. 8-— 
Sikkim, alt. 6000 ft., King, Kurz. Assam, Mishmi Hills, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 4286, 
4287). Khasia Mts., at Churra and Amwee, alt. 3-4000 ft., J. D. H. & T. T. 
25. L. martabanica, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 301; branchlets and leaves 
beneath densely tomentose, leaves 4-8 in. alternate penninerved coriaceous 
