Litsca.] CXXVII. LAURINEE, (J. D. Hooker.) 179 
2567, 2568. Laurus Cassia, Linn. ex Wight in Hook. Journ. Bot. ii. (1840) 
336. L. involucrata, Vahl in Herb. Juss. ex Lamk. Dict. iii. 445 ; Roxb. 
Cor. Pl. ii. 46, t. 187. L. zeylanica, &c., Herm. Mus. Zeyl. 26. 
BzHorAN and the KmasiA Mrs., Griffith. SILHET, Wallich. CHITTAGONG, 
Pegu and Tenasserim, ascending to 7000 ft., and Martaban, Kurz. Maracca, Main- 
$4y ; on Mt. Ophir and in littoral woods at Tangong chi, Griffith. PENANG, Wallich. 
DECCAN PENINSULA; on the Western Ghats from the Concan southwards, and from 
Quilon on the coast, Wight, ascending to 7000 ft. on the Nilghiris, CoROMANDEL, 
on the coast hills, Roxburgh. CEYLON, ascending to 6000 ft.—Disrris. Sumatra, 
java, 
A small tree, variable as to foliage. Leaves often caudate-acuminate, 7 by 34 in. 
e largest specimens from Courtallam and Sumatra (L. latifolia, Blume), smooth 
above or beautifully reticulated with minute impressions on one or both surfaces 
wholly or in part; petiole 1-2 in. long. Umbels 4-5 fld. in all the specimens I have 
éxamined, and as figured by Roxburgh (6-12 fid., Brandis, by error I suspect). Fruit 
globose and subglobose, 1-3 in. diam., or oblong and j-$ in. long; pedicel much 
thickened, 3-$ in. long.—I am in doubt as to there being one or two species included 
In the above: one has globose fruit, mammillate at the top, as figured by Roxburgh, 
and in Wight’s Icones, t. 132, from Ceylon, and his L.oblonga, t. 1845, from Courtallam, 
and which I have seen in specimens from Canara, the Nilghiris and Malacca; the 
other species with much larger oblong fruit, rounded at the top, as figured by Wight 
280 as L. zeylanica at t. 1844, for which he gives no precise locality (beyond that it 
3 à native of Ceylon, Martaban and the western slopes of the Nilghiris), and as figured 
dome, t. 294, and of which I have seen specimens from the Concan? (Herb. 
Zell. Brandis describes the fruit of zeylanica as globose but occasionally 
ovoid, and they are oblong in Nees’ description of zeylanica, furfuracea and oblonga, 
and Meissner's of foliosa var. cesia. Kurz describes the Burman foliosa as having 
?Png fruit; and Meissner his zeylanica var. venosa as "'ovali-globosa." Unfor- 
ately I find no fruit amongst the many Ceylon specimens that I have examined.— 
ith regard to the characters ascribed by authors to furfuracea, oblonga, scrobiculata, 
Soliosa and pulcherrima, I find nothing in these whereby to distinguish them from 
zeylanica; nor are Meissner's five varieties of the latter at all fixed. For the dis- 
tinctive characters of the too-closely allied Z. umbrosa, I must refer to the notes 
under that species, 
l 64. L. umbrosa, Nees Syst. Laurin. 623 (Tetranthera); branchlets 
eder Pubescent, leaves 2-5 in. alternate elliptic or oblong-lanceolate 
candate-acuminate triple-nerved below and with usually 2-4 pair of strong 
xr above the middle glaucous or not beneath, fruit globose on a very 
pihtly enlarged perianth-tube with a slender pedicel. Meissn. in DC. 
l rodr. xv, 1, 293, L. consimilis, Nees Syst. 628 (excl. syn. Laurus mvo- 
mh) Meissn. l c. 223; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 311. Tetradenia 
jubrosa and T. consimilis, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. ii. 64 and iii. 30 
3507. var. B.). Tetranthera umbrosa, Wall. Cat. 2564, and pulcherrima = 
B. T. pallens, Don Prodr. 66. 
e MPERATE and SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA ; Kashmir and Chumba, alt. 3-5000 fts 
Kui Simla and Kumaon, alt. 6-7000 ft.; Nepal, Wallich. Sikkim, alt. 7000 ft., 
PA Mrs., alt. 5-6000 ft, —DrsrRrp. Munnipore. . dato 
leay abit and characters of L. zeylanica, but usually more slender, with more cauda e 
smalle and best distinguished by the longer more slender fruiting-pe icels wi 
er dilated perianth-tube under the fruit. There are three forms whic nave 
“avoured to characterize below, of which the Jarger leaved Khasia may be t e 
probatis to zeylanica, with which Brandis unites both Z. umbrosa and consimilis, 
by yai htly. Gamble, however, keeps them distinct. Z. consimilis was fount e 
ifi don Wallich's flowering specimen of pulcherrima ? (No. 2567 B), which he i den- 
doubtfully with Roxburgh’s Coromandel Laurus involucrata, assuming that y 
from the same mountains ; and in so far as that Roxburgh figures many pairs o 
NeTYeg above the basal, he had some reason for his assumption; but in other respects, 
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