Litsæa.] CXXVII. LAURINES®. (J. D. Hooker.) *171 
Branches stout, smooth, young buds quite glabrous, Leaves 3-33 in. broad; base 
acute or obtuse, rather unequal; petiole 1-2 in., stout, black. ^ Umbels in bud as 
large as a small pea, pedicels  in., not very stout; bracts hardly coriaceous, 2 outer 
opposite, very concave, inner membranous ; flowers sessile, sparsely hairy below. 
epals scarious, unequal, linear-oblong. Filaments hairy. Ovary of male minute, 
with a large stigma. Fruit unknown.—I have seen but one specimen, in bud, com- 
municated by Dr. King ; it much resembles (and is probably) Tetr. elliptica, Nees, of 
ve T. nigricans of Borneo, which latter has smaller cymose or subracemose 
umbels, 
Al. L. petiolata, Hook.f. ; branches and leaves glabrous, leaves 4-5 in. 
alternate long-petioled penninerved coriaceous pale brown when dry elliptic 
or oblong obtuse or subacute smooth above beneath minutely reticulate with 
„pairs of slender nerves, umbels below the leaves clustered very shortly 
Pedicelled 5-fld., bracts 5 outer glabrous, sepals 6 with long lax hairs, 
- Stamens 9-10, filaments long slender villous. 
Matacca, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1265). 
> Branches grey brown when dry, tips and young leaves glabrous. Leaves much 
like Z. leiantha, but the petioles rather shorter and more slender, shining above, 
hardly glaucous beneath. Umbels 3 in. diam.; outer bracts hardly coriaceous, inner 
membranous slightly pubescent, innermost small; flowers on villous pedicels laxly 
clothed with long rufous flexuous hairs. Sepals linear-oblong, membranous. Fila- 
ments far exserted, 2 or more 2-glandular. Ovary (in male) rudimentary, filiform, 
with a very large discoid stigma. Fruitand fem, fl. unknown.—The long petioles are 
characteristic, 
42. L. castanea, Hook.f; branchlets hoary, leaves 3-6 in. alternate 
Penninerved hard coriaceous and dark brown when dry glabrous oblong or 
Obtuse, nerves 12-16 pair impressed above very strong beneath, umbels 
Solitary clustered or corymbosa on a very short peduncle 5-4-fld., pedicels 
stout, bracts 4. very coriaceous white-tomentose, stamens 10-15 villous. 
43. È. albic ; : 1873, ii. 102, and For. 
Tou. ans, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. ; 11. 1U2, 
js il 908 (Tetranthera) ; glabrous except the shoots and inflorescence, 
“aves 6-10 in. alternate penninerved thinly coriaceous lanceolate or oblong- 
ves 6-10 pairs slender, umbels clustered on a short peduncle, fruit in a 
large fleshy waved perianth-tube narrowed into a thick pedicel. 
Prev; in tropical f K 
al forests on the Eastern slopés, Kurz. . 
reti tree, 20-25. ft. ; branches rather slender. Leaves 2-23 in. broad, obscurely 
‘culate above, base very acute; petiole 4-4 in. long. Umbels small.— 
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i! leaves and very young umbels, The description is almost wholly from 
us or nearly so, leaves 5-8 in. 
vie dry elliptic-oblong obtuse or 
5-8 pair, umbels in sessile 
dias i. penangiana, Hook. f. ; gl 
abite E^ penninerved coriaceous pale w 
finely reticulate on both surfaces, nerves 
