166 CXXVIII. LAURINEE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Litsea. 
hairs, sometimes } in. long and very slender; anthers oblong. Ovary in male fl. 
minute; in fem. glabrous with a ‘stout style and discoid stigma. Fruit } in. long ;. 
perianth-base about j in diam. with the thickened pedicel 4-3 in. long.— The leaves 
are so variable in shape and size, that I have difficulty in sorting the specimens into 
varieties thereby. Asmall-leaved state from Bhotan, Griffith, and Sikkim alt. 8000 ft., 
has rounded bases to the leaf. The only Garwhal specimen I have seen has sessile 
clustered umbels. In the Genera Plantarum this species is inadvertently (under 
Lindera, Sect. 3, v. iii. p. 163) referred to the section Eulitsea, but the perianth is 
very well developed, and its tube much enlarged; it is therefore a good Cylico- 
daphne. It is very easily confounded with Zindera assamica and states of L. 
bifaria. 
28. L. nuculanea, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1873, ii. 102, and 
For. Fl. ii. 301; branchlets petioles and leaves beneath softly tomentose or 
. Sublanate, leaves 5-6 in. alternate penninerved thinly coriaceous obovate or 
obovate-oblong to oblong-lanceolate acute, base acute beneath glaucous reti- 
culated and with 6-8 pair of rather slender nerves, umbels subsessile, fruit 
oblong mucronate pale yellow longer than the large subhemispheric truncate 
nearly smooth shortly peduncled cup. Cylicodaphne Hookeri, var. siam- 
ensis, Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 209. 
TENASSERIM, Kurz; on Molyet, alt, 6000 ft., Gallatly (in Herb. Calcutt.).— 
DISTRIB. Siam. 
A shrub; branchlets slender. Leaves 2-3} in. diam., very softly tomentose 
beneath, above green and smooth with impressed nerves; petiole 1-3 in. Flowers 
unknown. Fruit about 2 in. long, cupular perianth-tube % in. diam., warted.—The 
fruit of this a good deal resembles in its colour and mucronate top that of the plant 
named T. læta in Herb. Calcutt. (not the true læta), which has lobed cups and longer 
petioles, 
29. L. coriacea, Heyne in Wall. Cat. 2556 (Tetranthera) ; branchlets 
leaves beneath and umbels finely pubescent, leaves 4-6 in. alternate penni- 
nerved coriaceous elliptic-ovate or lanceolate acute or acuminate at both 
ends greenish above beneath at length glabrous brown and reticulated, nerves 
6-10 pair, umbels 4-fld. small crowded subsessile, fruit small oblong seated 
on the enlarged cupular shortly pedicelled truncate perianth-tube. Tetran- 
thera coriacea, Heyne; Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv.1. 186. T. micrantha, 
Meissn. l. c. 183. 
Deccan PENINSULA, Heyne; Courtallam, Wight (Kew Distrib. 2532). 
Branches rather slender, bark pale. Leaves very variable in breadth, 1-23 im. 
red-brown beneath, transverse nervules obscure; petiole very short, 4-4 in. Umbels 
4 in. diam., when flowering, appressed to the branch in a small globose head ; pedicel 
elongating a little in fruit; bracts 4, silky. Male fl. funnel-shaped, silky below. 
Sepals small, glabrous. Stamens 12, apparently glabrous; glands of those opposite 
the sepals very large. Ovary, if present, slender, with an erect small stigma. Fruit 
(unripe) iin. long, obtuse, perianth-tube j in. broad, with the thickened pedicel 
sometimes } in. long. 
|... 80, b. Hookeriana, Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 188 (Tetranthera) ; 
branchlets very stout and leaves beneath densely softly brown-tomentose, 
leaves 4—6 in. alternate penninerved thickly coriaceous elliptic or obovate 
obtuse beneath not reticulate, nerves 6-8 pair, petiole very stout, male © 
umbels 8-12-fld. subsilky or nearly glabrous, pedicel slender. L. nemoralis | 
in part, Trimen, Syst. Cat. Ceyl. Pi 76. 
CEYLON, Gardner. 
Branches with pale bark, and large scars of fallen leaves (mossed in the specimens). 
Leaves remarkably coriaceous, 2-23 in. diam., smooth and pale brown above wi 
faintly impressed nerves and a puberulous costa which is very stout beneath, not 
