: leaves 5-1 4 
Litsæa.] CXXVIII. LAURINEÆ. (J. D. Hooker.) 169 
salicifolia are referable eith I 
the development oforabl Citne to sect, Conodaphne or Cylicodaphne, according to 
- f albescens ; leaves shorter and broad i , 
of the Sikkim Himalaya, alt. 4-6000 ft., T D. H, poo one Ut minges 
35. Es. 
L. angustifolia, Wall. Cat. 2537 (Tetranthera) ; nearly or quite 
‘glab . . 
En rous, leaves 3-8 in. shortly petioled alternate penninerved narrowly 
ear-lanceolate acute or a i i 
chi € \ cuminate, nerves 15-30 pair, umbels simple 
ange aTy solitary or clustered glabrous, pedicels slender. Tetranthera 
pm Way ; all.; Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 183, in part. T. saligna, 
all, Pl. As, Rar. ii, 67, and Syst. Laurin, 539. 
Sm ; : 
Branch; De Siloa, Chittagong, Clarke, Lister —DıstRIB. Munnipore. 
above, gre brc en ti young hoary. Leaves 4-3 in. diam., dark brown when dry 
male d Sn A i own beneath, smooth, nerves slender; petiole 4-3 in. Umbels styall, 
6-9, ülaments s about 6 fld.; flowers nearly glabrous. Sepals oblong. Stamens 
seen, — Wallis Sel hairy, hardly longer than the sepals. Fem. fl. and fruit not 
Meissner, mic] i specimens have very slender branches and leaves only 8-4 in. 
another "plant f y wrongly named specimens, has described the young fruit of 
many nérvos and d that of this. The usualy much longer narrow leaves with 
t is perh slender pedicels of the umbels distinguish this from Z. salicifolia. 
aps nearer to L. oblonga. 
36, 
flowers 15, Medssneri, Hook. f.; quite glabrous except the bracts and 
ceolate n 3-5 in. alternate penninerved coriaceous narrowly elliptic- 
surfaces sub nsely subcaudate-acuminate pale finely reticulated on both 
‘umbels 4-4 glaucous beneath, nerves 10-15 pair slender and raised above, 
eons vat: Solitary shortly pedicelled, bracts 4 silky long ciliate coria- 
giana y maa outer smaller, perianth 4-lobed, stamens 9. Litsæa ? 
. H. f£ n p. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 997. Dodecadenia ? Herb. Ind. 
Kn 
erp Mrs, ; near Churra and the Boga panee, alt. 4-5000 ft, J. D. H. 
Bra 
Smooth and erate r slender. Leaves }-1} in. broad, very pale yellowish brown, 
y transver ost shining above when dry, base acute, nervules raised beneath, but 
police 8 or subse. petiole j-3 in., slender. Umbels (male) 3 in. diam., on stiff stout 
rown hairs. qeessile ; bracts very concave, whitish when dry, fringed with long 
ort, filaments her sessile, silky. Sepals membranous, broadly oblong. Stamens 
à 2.lobed s hairy; anthers small, very short. Ovary imperfect, style hairy, 
Litsea, but tr This is quite unlike any other species of either Actinodaphne or 
unequal long Jini some respects nearest Z. elongata in the solitary umbels with. 
near Churra à iate bracts. I found specimens of a similar shrub at the coal-pits 
Young umbels n which the nerves are more numerous and spreading, and the very 
seem to be crowded on a very short peduncle. 
37. 
L. læta, Wall. Cat. 2541 (Tetranthera) ; glabrous or nearly so, 
Dear-oblong ; alternate penninerved coriaceous pale when dry elliptic- or 
aces nes. or -lanceolate acute glaucous beneath finely reticulate on both 
long-nedic "a 5-8 pair, umbels 3-8-fld. large in sessile clusters usually 
bose Seated ed glabrous or hoary, bracts 4-5, stamens 9-12, fruit large glo- 
Nees in W; I a large pedicelled turbinate perianth-tube. Tetranthera læta, 
in DO, P wed Pl. As, Rar. ii. 67, and Syst. Laurin. 548 and 677; Meissn. 
roar. xv. 1. 186 (excl. var. y. P glauca). 
Tro 
Sra, SD STERN HIMALAYA; Sikkim and Bhotan. 
A small t; t. 2-4000 ft., common. 
Pubescent, P» branches rather slender; shoo 
White or y, aves very variable in breadth, pale green or yel 
ery pale reddish beneath, base acute ; petiole 3-3 
Assam, KnHasrA Mrs. 
tsand young leaves beneath very finely 
low above when dry, and 
in., stout in the larger 
