Litswa. } CXXVIII. LAURINEE. (J. D. Hooker.) 175 
narrowed towards the base, pale brown when dry, above smooth with slender raised 
nerves ; petiole 3-3 in., stout. Male racemes axillary and below the leaves, numerqus, 
rachis and pedicels very slender, the latter often $ in. ; umbels quite glabrous; bracts 
rather membranous ; flowers sessile. Perianth-tube turbinate, silky ; sepals 4 nearly 
glabrous, very unequal. Stamens about 14, filaments slender hairy. Female racemes 
lin, long ; umbels shortly pedicelled ; flower not seen. Fruit (unripe) apparently 
sunk in the globose or at length hemispheric smooth perianth-tube, which with its 
short pedicel is about j in. long; edge of mouth thin, obscurely lobed; ripe fruit 
‘oblong 6-7 lines long seated in the 3-5-cleft large fleshy cup,” Kurz.—The raised 
nerves of the.upper surface of the dried leaves is in contrast to those of the three last 
ipecies, . 
98. L. Maingayi, Hook. f.; quite glabrous except the umbels, leaves 
7-16 in. alternate very long-petioled penninerved rigidly coriaceous oblon 
or oblanceolate obtuse or acute, nerves 10-18 pair strong beneath wit 
Dsverse nervules, male umbels in racemes 5-6 in.-long hoary 6-fld. long- 
pedicelled. 
Mazacca, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1264, 1273). l 
, Branches woody, bark blackish when dry. Leaves 2-6 in. broad, brownish and 
shining above with impressed nerves, paler beneath and finely reticulated between the 
Tather distant nervules; base narrowed; petiole 2 in., slender. acemes from below 
the leaves, numerous ; rachis rather slender, arched or drooping, nearly glabrous ; 
umbels in bud globose, i in. diam., expanded 4-3 in. diam.; bracts 4, coriaceous, 
concave, subequal, white and hoary; pedicel 2-4 in. long; flowers pedicelled. 
eriant with a funnel-shaped tube, tomentose, sepals 6-8. Stamens about 12, fila- , 
ments long slender glabrous; anthers linear-oblong. Ovary sunk in the tube of 
the perianth (imperfect). Fruit unknown. 
54 L. Panamonja, Ham. in Wall. Cat. 2553 (Tetranthera); quite 
glabrous except the tomentose racemes, leaves 5-12 in. alternate penninerved 
coriaceous oblong or lanceolate acuminate reticulate beneath between the 
2 pair of slender nerves, male umbels in racemes 5-7 in. long 6-fld. 
ong-pedicelled, female in shorter racemes. Tetranthera Panamonja, Ham. ; 
essn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 197; Kurz For. Fl. 309. T. Panamanja, 
T ot Tos adl. Pl. As. Rar. iis 67, and Syst. Laurin. 561 and 677 ; ? Wight 
Assam Plains, Wallich, &c.  TENASSERIM fre uent, Griffith, Kurz. . 
A large tree 5 "young shoots puberulous. Leaves firmly coriaceous, 2-33 in. broad, 
pale brown when dry, rarely oblanceolate, base acute or cuneate ; petiole il in. 
emes solitary or in pairs from below the leaves, slender, drooping ; umbels in bud 
e $—1 in. diam., tawny-tomentose ; pedicels 3-4 in. ; bracts 4, subequal, coria- 
tha concave; flowers 6, sessile. Perianth tomentose, tube fannel-shaped ; sepa s6, 
al ong. Stamens hirsute at the base. Stigma dilated. “Fruit broader than long, 
nest didymous, size of a pea, 2-seeded, seated on an entire small cup-like expansion 
et the perianth-base,”” Kurz.—The description of the fruit is from Kurz ; that it 
" called 2-seeded is no doubt an oversight. The Tenasserim specimens (var. 8. longi- 
Te mosa, Meissn. 1. c.) have longer racemes and larger flowers than the Assam ont 
n Herb. Wight there is a plant in very young flower, figured in his Icones (t. 1836), 
m Courtallam, called T, Panamanja, which differs much in habit from that species. 
e leaves are very coriaceous elliptic acute shining above, petiole 3 in. 
95. I oleoides, Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 195 (Tetranthera) ; 
quite glabrous except the tomentose racemes, branches very stout, leaves 
t 
bas 
. : Jay d 
In. alternate penninerved very coriaceous elliptic tip obtuse or rounde 
€ acute beneath not glaucous faintly reticulate with 8-10 pair of slender 
fran petiole stout, male racemes short erect, umbels shortly pedicelled, 
t globose seated on the broad turbinate subsessile perianth-tube. 
