168 CXXVIII. LAURINEX. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Litsea. 
For. Fl. ii. 300 (lancifolia). T. salicifolia & saligna, Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. 
& T. 
NORTHERN and Eastern INDIA; from Oude and Nepal to Sikkim (ascending to 
6000 ft.). Assam, Bengal, Chittagong and Pegu. 
An evergreen bush or small tree; branches never very stout, bark dark or black. 
Leaves very variable, pale brown or darker above when dry, smooth and usually 
obscurely reticulated above, nerves beneath strong with faint nervules ; petiole 4-1 in. 
Umbels 3-4 in. diam., nerves corymbose, glabrous or hoary. Stamens 6-9, usually 
very short, with villous filaments, Fruit 4 in. long, purple-black ; perianth-tube 
variable in size, but always small and narrower than the base of the ripe fruit, and 
rarely cupular as in Z. oblonga, from which it is hardly distinguishable.—I have 
vainly endeavoured to arrange the many forms of this protean plant. under the 
varieties proposed by Meissner, the characters of which are chiefly taken from the 
reticulation and hoariness of the foliage. Of Nees’ var. y. levigata, which is Meissner’s 
var. 5., from Courtallam, Wight, I know nothing. The following marked forms are 
united by intermediates. uu 
Var. 1. ellipsoidea, Meissn.; branches hoary, leaves large 4-12 in. broadly elliptic 
or oblong passing into lanceolate glaucous beneath, petiole often 1 in., umbels sub- 
sessile in dense subglobose heads.—Sikkim, Assam, Khasia, Silhet.—The type of 
Wallich’s glauca. : 
Var. 2. elongata, Meissn.; branches hoary or glabrous, leaves narrower, petiole 
often long, umbels on stout pedicels more loosely clustered.—Assam, Khasia and 
Silhet.—I suppose this to be Meissner’s var. as named ; his locality of Penins, Ind. 
Hb. Wight, founded on an Assam specimen in Herb. Wight. 
Var. 3. atfenuata, Meissn.; branches quite glabrous, leaves subdistichous about 
6 by 1j in. linear-oblong acute shining above brown beneath, petiole short, umbels 
in globose clusters.—Assam, Silhet, &c.— This is Wallich's 7: attenuata (Cat. 
2534 A.). . 
Var. 4. laurifolia; branches hoary, leaves subdistichous 3-5 by $-1 in. linear- 
oblong obtuse or acute brown and glabrous or grey and hoary beneath, petiole short, 
umbels loosely clustered, pedicels short slender.—Common in Assam, Khasia, Silhet 
and Bengal, from the Sunderbunds to Chittagong.—This is T. laurifolia, Herb. Ham., 
and Wallich's Z. salicifolia, Herb. Roxb. (Cat. 2536), and T. angustifolia of Gamble 
(Man. Ind. Timb. 311). It is very similar to L. angustifolia, Wall., but has fewer 
nerves and broader leaves. . 
Var. 5. polyneura; leaves 5-10 in. elliptic-lanceolate acuminate polished above, 
nerves 12-16 pair.—Sikkim and Khasia, alt. 3—4000 ft. . 
Var.? 6. reticulata ; leaves 5-9 in. elliptic-lanceolate caudate-acuminate, upper 
surface reticulated with pale nervules under brown, stigma in male fl. very large 
discoid.—A small tree from the Myrung woods, Khasia. 7. salicifolia in part, 
Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. & T.—This is probably a different species, but in the absence of 
fruit I hesitate to name it as such. 
34. L. oblonga, Wall. Cat. 2542 (Tetranthera) ; glabrous or nearly n 
leaves 4—7 in. alternate penninerved elliptic- or oblong-lanceolate subacute 
pale brown and subglaucous beneath with 8-10 pair of slender nerves anc 
no cross-nervules, umbels in shortly peduncled corymbs or shortly racemose 
3-6-fld., bracts and pedicels glabrous or hoary, fruit oblong base immerse 
in the small cupular perianth-tube. Cylicodaphne oblonga, Meissn. 1n KU» 
Prodr. xv.1.205, excl. var, Tetranthera oblonga, Nees in Wall. PI. As. Far. 
ii. 67, and Syst. Laurin. 551. ?' T. Doshia, Don Prodr. 65. Tome 
Doshia, Ham. mss. 
NEPAL, Wallich. Assam and Khasia Mts. Jenkins, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 
A shrub or small tree, so similar to Z. salicifolia, that I suspect it to be only : 
more glabrous state of that plant with more corymbose inflorescence, rather hae is 
umbels, and a longer narrower fruit, 3 of an in. long.—Meissner’s var. Stoc. 4L. 
L. Stocksii, nob., and his var. Griffithii is L. myristicefolia, Wall. This an 
