172. CXXVIII, LAURINEE. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Litseea. 
clusters hoary-pubescent 6-fld., bracts 4, fruit j in. ellipsoid seated on the 
subsessile hemispheric perianth-tube. 
PENANG, Phillips; on Government Hill, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1258/2). 
Hardly distinguishable without the fruit from 7. læta. Tt is very closely allied to 
Tetranthera sessiliflora, Meissn., T. accedens, Blume, T. lucida, Blume, and T. 
diversifolia, Blume, but the fruit is larger thanin any of these. It may be the same as 
T. tuberculata, but that is described as having subglobose fruit.—In shape the 
cup of the fruit resembles L. Blumii, which differs in the opposite leaves. 
45. L. longipes, Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 205 (Cylicodaphne); 
quite glabrous, leaves 6-8 in. alternate penninerved very coriaceous oblong 
obtuse pale above glaucous beneath with 6-10 pairs of slender nerves 
and very faint reticulations, umbels quite glabrous, fruiting perianth-tube 
1 in. diam. hemispheric very fleshy, pedicel 14 in. long. Tetranthera 
myristiceefolia, Wall.; var. longipes, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 302. 
TENASSERIM, Helfer (Kew Distrib. 4281) ; Mergui, Griffith. 
Branches rather slender, black when dry, Leaves 3-34 in. diam., when dry 
greenish above smooth and hardly shining, base acute; petiole 3-1 in. Umbels very 
young, quite glabrous. Fruiting umbels axillary, peduncle much shorter than the 
pedicels, which are gradually thickened upwards; large perianth-tube very rugose 
when dry. 
46. L. myristicæfolia, Wall. Cat. 2548 (Tetranthera); quite gla- 
brous, leaves 3-9 in. alternate penninerved oblong or elliptic-oblong OT 
lanceolate rarely obovate obtuse or acute beneath brown or glaucous with 
6-10 pairs of very faint nerves, umbels numerous 4-6-fld. quite glabrous 10 
duncled clusters or corymbs, fruit small globose immersed in the cupular 
eshy shortly pedicelled perianth-tube. Cylicodaphne myristiceetolia, 
Meissn, in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 208; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 102 (im part). ©. 
oblonga, var. x P Griffithii, Meissn. l. c. 205. Lepidadenia Griffithii, Wight 
lc. t. 1846. Diospyros ? acuminata, Wall. Cat. 4129. 
Peau, Kurz. TENASSERIM, at Tavoy, Wallich. Penang, Porter. MALACCA, 
Griffith, Cumming, Maingay. : 
A small tree; branches woody. Leaves very variable in size and form, but uni- 
form in texture, drying dark or light-coloured, above quite smooth, not shining; 
petiole 4—4 in., rather stout. Umbels, flowering } in. diam.; pedicels rather slender, 
3-1 in.; bracts 4-6, coriaceous, 6-fld. (4-fld., Kurz). Sepals 6, glabrous, obscurely 
lobed or toothed. Stamens 10-12, quite glabrous. Fruit 4 in. diam. ; perianth-tube 
clavate, j in. diam., very fleshy, rugose when dry, narrowing into the very fleshy 
clavate pedicel, together 1-3 in. long.— This and the preceding are almost the only 
species of this section with quite glabrous umbels. Kurz, who unites them as varieties 
describes the fruit as obovate-globular, of the size of a small cherry, and the thick 
fleshy entire smooth cup as j in. diam. Meissner’s var. B. favoyana is the form 
with short leaves, and var. acutata the narrower more acute leaved one. The Canara 
plant referred to the latter is Z. Stocksii, nob: 
47. T. Helferi, Hook. f.; glabrous, leaves 3 in. alternate penninerved 
very coriaceous ovate or elliptic-ovate acuminate smooth and brown when dry 
above beneath pale brown with 4-6 very slender nerves and ver faint 
reticulations, umbels solitary pedicelled 4-fld., bracts 4 glabrous outer argest, 
sepals 6 glabrous, stamens 12. 
TENASSERIM (or Andaman Islands), Helfer (Kew Distrib. 4307). . 
_ Branches woody; bark rough, whitish. Leaves very finely acuminate, margins 
slightly recurved when dry, base acute; petiole 4—4 in., very slender. Umbels (male) 
about j in. diam,; bracts black when dry ; pedicel à in., slender, decurved. Sepals 
subequal. Filaments quite glabrous except at the base; anthers short. Ovary 
