176 CXXVIII. LAURINEX. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Litscea. 
NILGHIRI MTs. ; at Sispara, Wight, Gardner. | 
+ Apparently a robust shrub, or tree, with erect leaves greenish above and hardly 
glaucous beneath, and branches as thick as a goose-quill. The very young racemes 
are axillary, erect, 1 in. long, with a stout rachis and very shortly stoutly pedicelled 
umbel, much too young for analysis. Fruiding racemes 1-2 in. long, rachis stout, 
pedicels of umbels short and thick; pedicel and perianth-tube together forming a 
broadly obconic or turbinate cup 3-3 in. diam. with an entire or lobed thin margin.— 
Meissner describes this as having opposite or subopposite leaves, but I find them 
opposite only on very young shoots. Possibly an extreme form of L. Wightiana. 
56. L. Stocksii, Hook. f.; glabrous except the silky-tomentose inflo- 
rescence, leaves 4-6 in. alternate penninerved coriaceous oblong-lanceolate 
or oblanceolate rarely obovoid acute or acuminate, glaucous and very finely 
but distinctly reticulate and sometimes puberulous beneath with 10-16 pairs 
of strong nerves, fem. umbels 6-8-fld. in stout suberect racemes 1-3in. long, 
fruit ellipsoid seated on the entire or irregularly lobed turbinate thickly 
pedicelled perianth-tube. Tetranthera lancezfola, Grah. Cat. Bomb. PI. 
174. P T. glauca, ò. ? levigata, Nees Syst. Laur. 677; Meissn. l.c. 185. 
C. myristiczefolia, var. acutata, Meissn. l. c. 209 (the Canara plant only). 
The Concan and Canara; on the Ghats and Mahableshwar Hills, Gibson, 
Stocks, Ritchie, &c. 
Branches stout. Leaves 1-2 in. broad, often of a purplish or brown glaucous hue 
beneath, greenish above with impressed nerves; petiole }-}in. Female umbels shortly 
pedicelled, flowering nearly j in. diam. ; bracts 4, and flowers silvery silky. Pe- 
* rianth-tube oblong-turbinate in flower; stamens (of female) reduced to the 2 glands 
and aligule. Fruiting umbels sometimes solitary or corymbose ; fruit (unripe) 3 m. 
long; perianth-tube nearly j in. diam.—It is with great hesitation that I advance 
this as distinct from L. Wightiana, and on the other hand I am not quite satisfied 
whether or no L. Stocksii may not include two species, or that the synonymy of the 
three following forms is absolutely correct. Meissner evidently had the same difficulty 
as I have experienced in respect of these Litsæas. af 
1, Stocksii proper ; leaves very minutely puberulous beneath.—Along with ellip- 
soid-fruiting specimens of this from near Parwar Ghat, Ritchie sends detached fruits 
which are transversely oblong, 1 in. diam. Tetranthera oblonga, var. Stocksii, Meissn. 
in DC. Prodr. xv. 1, 205. - : 
2. Var. acutata; leaves quite glabrous and more glaucous beneath, but reticu- 
lated as in Stocksii proper. Cylicodaphne myristicefolia, var. acutata, Meissn. l c. 
209, in part. Tetranthera lanceefolia, Roxb.?; Grah. Cat. Bomb. Pl. 171. 
3. Var. glabrescens ; leaves obovate-oblong rarely lanceolate very white and glau- 
cous beneath with no or very obscure traces of reticulation. —Cylicodaphne Wightiana, 
var. glabrescens, Meissn. l. c. 201 (the plant of Stocks), and var. acutata, Meissn. l.c. 
515.— Canara, Stocks. Nilghiri Hills, at Villa Cadoo, Wight. 
tt Leaves more or less pubescent beneath (sometimes glabrous in L. 
Gardneri). 
57. L. Gardneri, Thwaites Enum. 255 (Tetranthera) ; nearly glabrous, 
branches robust, leaves 4-6 in. alternate penninerved thickly coriaceous 
oblong or broadly elliptic obtuse glabrous or hoary beneath with 8-10 pair 
of very strong nerves and transverse nervules reticulations very obscure; 
racemes short tomentose with stout rachis and pedicels, bracts silky, fruit 
oblong seated on a broad turbinate stoutly pedicelled perianth-tube. Cylico- 
daphne zeylanica & rigida, Meissn.in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 201. 
CEYLON ; Central Province, alt. 4-6000 ft., Thwaites. 
A tree, 40-50 ft.; branches as stout as a goose-quill Leaves 14-4 in. broad, 
brown when dry above with impressed nerves, paler beneath but not glaucous; bese 
acute; petiole 4-3 in., stout, Racemes 1-3 in. long, strict; pedicels 3-3 in. ; um 
