Litsæa.] CXXVIII. LAURINEX. (J. D: Hooker.) 173 
Muy Fruit unknown.—A very distinct species, of which the materials are 
€. Species of Ceylon. 
48. L. glaberrima, Thwaites Enum. 255 (Tetranthera); glabrous or 
nearly so, branches’ slender, leaves 2-7 in. alternate penninerved thinly 
coriaceous greenish when dry oblong-lanceolate or oblanceolate acuminate 
smooth above very finely reticulate (rarely puberulous) beneath with 6-8 
par of very strong arched nerves that form large loops within the margin 
Qwest pair shortest, umbels in very short racemes or fascicles 4-fld., bracts 
5 glabrous, fruit oblong seated on the small dilated cup-shaped erianth- 
Tetranthera nervosa, Meissn.in DC. Prodr. xv. 1.187. T. ongifolia 
var. Y., Thwaites l.c. T. lota, var. y. ? glauca, Meissn. l. c. 187. Cylico- 
daphne Thwaitesii, y. angustata, Meissen. l. c. 208. 
CEYLON; in the Central Province, alt. 4000 ft., Walker, &c.. dy 
A small tree; branches glabrous or puberulous. Leaves variable in size, opaque 
above, glaucous or not beneath, base acute or obtuse; petiole 4-} in., glabrous or 
puberulous. Umbels few, 1 in. diam. ; pedicel short, slender; common peduncle, if 
Present, not 1 in. long; outer bracts very concave, membranous, innermost narrow ; 
owers shortly pedicelled ; pedicels silkily villous, as are the perianth-tube and bases 
of the sepals. Sepals unequal, membranous, linear-oblong, sparsely hairy, villous at - 
the base within. Stamens 8 ; filaments very slender, hairy; anthers broad, 2 or 3 
2-glandular. Ovary in male a slender minute column with no stigma. Fruit 3 in. 
„am. ; base of perianth as broad, on a thickened pedicel.— The remarkable nervation 
distinguishes this. Meissner's 7. nervosa vars. a. and A. are individuals only. 
19. L. ovalifolia, Thwaites Enum. 256 (Tetranthera); quite glabrous, 
branches robust, leaves 2-4 in. alternate penninerved rather long-petioled 
ickly coriaceous brown when dry broadly oblong orbicular or elliptic. 
rarely ovate-lanceolate rounded at both ends or base acute, very finely 
reticulate beneath with 6-10 very faint free nerves, umbels clustered very 
shortly stoutly pedicelled (5~6-fld., bracts 4 pubescent, sepals 6 (4-8), fruit 
Subglobose seated on the thickened cupular perianth-tube. Lepidadenia 
ovalifolia, Wight Ic. t. 1899. Cylicodaphne Thwaitesii, Meissn. in DC. 
Tod». xv. 1, 908, var. a. only. 
CEYLON; Central Province, alt. 2-7000.ft., Walker, &c. .. 
A tree, 30-40 ft.; branches rather es. ' Leaves very variable, rigid, flat, above 
smooth or shining with very obscure nerves, beneath pale or dark brown opaque or 
Tather shining with a stout midrib, base rarely cordate; petiole stout, i-$ in. 
mbels sometimes clustered on a short stout peduncle, 4 in. diam.; bracts very 
coriaceous ; flowers on short villous pedicels. Sepals 6 in the flowers I have examined 
io ccording to Thwaites), oblong, glabrous. Stamens 9-12 (8-16 or more, Thwaites), 
quer 2-glandular ; filaments short, sparsely hairy; anthers broad. Fruit j- in. 
am, in a large fleshy shortly stoutly pedicelled almost hemispberic cup.— Some speci- 
Mens from Walker, doubtfully referred to Cylicodaphne Gardneri by Meissner, 
ave elliptic leaves with the surface convex above between the deeply sunk nerves, et] 
mr espondingly concave beneath; others, as Thwaites' C.P. No. 10 and 351, are exactly 
Tmediate between this and Z. iteodaphne. I refer here Thwaites’ C.P. 2487, 
Which hag longer petioles than L. iteodaphne. 
50. I. iteodaphne, Thwaites Enum. 255 (Tetranthera) ; glabrous 
“xcept the pubescent umbels, leaves alternate penninerved coriaceous shortly 
Petioled oblong or linegr-oblong and obtuse or linear-lanceolate and acumi- 
nate smooth above beneath finely reticulate glaucous or not, nerves 6-10 
very slender, umbels small few or solitary clustered 4—5-fld., pedicels 
