174 CXXVIII. LAURINEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) [Litseea. 
very short and usually stout, sepals usually 4, fruit oblong on the small 
cupular swollen perianth-tube. ? Tetranthera iteodaphne, Nees Syst. Laurin. 
542. Cylicodaphne Thwaitesii, Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv.1. 208 (excl. var. a. 
ovalifolia). 
CEYLON ; in the Central Province, ascending to 6000 ft., Walker, &c. . 
A very puzzling plant, of which the specimens are not sufficient for a full descrip- 
tion. I am uncertain as to its being the T. ifeodapAne of Nees, whose description is 
insufficient, and who further describes the sepals as 6, and the bracts as strigose. 
find only 4 sepals, and rarely more than 8 stamens. Thwaites sends three forms. 
1. Leaves 3—4 by 1-1} in. oblong or narrowly oblong obtuse or acute dark brown 
above when dry, base acute obtuse or rounded.— Adams Peak (C.P. 10, 357, 729, 
2605). Cylicodaphne Walkeri, Meissn. l. c. This approaches Z. ovalifolia, Thw. 
2. Leaves 3—5 in. oblong-lanceolate acute or acuminate pale above more so and 
almost glaucous beneath, petiole very short. 4 
8. Leaves 4-6 by 3-1 in. linear lanceolate acuminate pale on both surfaces, petiole 
short, male umbels solitary on slender pedicels i in. long, fem. fruiting perianth 
smaller. Var. 8., Thwaites (C.P. 360). C. iteodaphne y. angustata, Meissner l. c. 
in part. 
Another form, sent by Walker only, hasleaves 5-6 by 1 in., oblong-lanceolate, grey- 
brown beneath with often 12-15 pairs of more conspicuous nerves.—I assume it to 
T. Walkeri, Meissn. Thwaites’ numbers are very confusing, because of the badness 
of most of the specimens, and because those in different herbaria are attached to dis- 
. Similar specimens. I have hence not quoted some of them, or Meissner's references 
to them. C.P, 729 in Herb. Hook. is quite undeterminable: probably referable to 
var. 2. 
-** Umbels racemed. 
+ Leaves quite glabrous beneath (except L. Stocksii). (See also L. 
Gardneri.) . 
51. E. glabrata, Wall. Cat. 2543 (Tetranthera); quite glabrous 
except the silkily hoary inflorescence, leaves 5-7 in. alternate penninerve 
coriaceous linear- or elliptic-oblong or -lanceolate acute or acuminate faintly 
reticulate beneath with 10-12.pairs of nerves, male in racemes 3-5 in. long 
6-fld., pedicels long. Tetranthera P glabrata, Wall.; Nees in Wall. PI. As. 
Rar. un. 67, and Syst. Laurin. 560; Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 197. 
Laurus salicifolia ?, Wight mss. 
Deccan PENINSULA; Dindygul Hills, alt. 3000 ft., Wight. f 
Very near L. Panamonja, and perhaps only a variety of that plant, or rather o 
its Tenasserim larger umbelled form; but the flowers, which are in bud only, are 
densely silky (not tomentose), the racemes less tomentose, the stamens more hairy ; 
and in the absence of developed flowers and fruit I hesitate to unite them. Their 
foliage is very similar, but the umbels of the Deccan plant are rather larger. 
52. L. nitida, Roxb. ex Wall. Cat. 2540 (Tetranthera) ; quite glabrous’ 
leaves 4-10 in. alternate penninerved thinly coriaceous oblanceolate oF 
obovate-oblong tip rounded retuse or subacute, faintly loosely reti 
beneath with 10-14 pair of very slender nerves, male umbels long-pedicell 
4-5-fld. in slender glabrous racemes 2—4 in. long, female racemes mied 
shorter, fruit ellipsoid sunk in the enlarged subspherical shortly pedicellec 
perianth-tube. "l'etranthera nitida, Roxb.; Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Ear. V- 
67 and iii. 3l, and Syst. Laurin. 556; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 302. T. Baula, 
Herb. Ham. Cylicodaphne nitida, Meissn. in DC, Prodr. xv. 1. 203. 
EASTERN HIMALAYA; Bhotan, Griffith. Assam, near Goalpara, Hamilton 
SILHET,. Wallich. Preu, at Rangoon, Wallich, M‘Clelland, l h 
A timber tree; branchlets woody, angular, bark pale. Leaves 2-3 in. broad, muc 
