180 CXXVIII. LAURINEA. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Litscea. 
as in locality, Roxburgh's involucrata is better referred to zeylanica. Leaves with 
transversely striolate nervules occur in all forms. . . 
L. umbrosa proper; leaves small elliptic rarely 3 by 3-1 in., nerves 2-3 pair 
above the basal, fruit globose. L. umbrosa B. khasiana, Meissn. in part.— Khasia Mts., 
alt. 5-7000 ft. . . 
Var. impunctata ; leaves larger broader 3-6 by 14-23 in. L. umbrosa B. khasiana, 
Meissn. in part, and L. foliosa var. impunctata, Meissn., with oblong fruit, from 
Khasia, alt. 5-7000 ft., and L. striolata, Meissn., with globose fruit, from Sikkim, 
alt. 7000 ft. . 
Var. consimilis; leaves more membranous oblong-lanceolate 3-5 by 1-1j in. often 
more glaucous beneath with usually many pairs of nerves above the basal, fruit 
globose.— Kashmir to Nepal.—There is a good specimen of this in Herb. Hooker, 
received from Wallich in 1821, but it is not in the Wallichian Herbarium of the 
Linnzan Society. 
65. L. Mannii, King in Herb. Calcutt.; branches slender and petioles 
and pedicels pubescent, leaves scattered 2-3 in. triple-nerved elliptic-lan- 
ceolate obtusely caudate-acuminate minutely impressed punctate on both 
surfaces nerves beneath very slender, fruiting clusters sessile, fruit minute 
globose mucronate seated on the remains of the unaltered perianth. 
KnasIA or JyNTEA HILLS, G. Mann. . 
The small leaves with faint nerves and small mucronate fruit about $ in. diam. 
well distinguish this species, which may be a Litseaas Dr. King has named it, but 
without bracts and flowers it is impossible to say that it is not an Actinodaphne or 
Lindera. l 
DOUBTFUL SPECIES, 
Lrrsæa? species, from Upper Assam, Mishmi Hills at Choonpara, Griffith. 
Leaves only ; these resemble L. Wallichii in form, in the bright red-brown coriaceous 
shining surfaces covered with fine reticulations, but differ in having 20-30 pairs of 
nerves; they are 12-18 by 5-9 in., oblong, subacute or acuminate, shortly petioled, 
and as well as the branches perfectly glabrous. 
L. VELUTINA, Blume Mus. Bot. i. 376; Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 1. 181; from 
Indis, Heyne.—It is impossible from the meagre description to say what this may 
e. 
LITSÆA rugosa, Kurz in Flora 1872, 171 (Tetranthera ? ochrascens, Miquel Fi. 
Ind. Bat. Suppl. i. 146, 363. Sideroxylon? rugosum, Wall. Cat. 4158. S. 
Wallichianum, G. Don Gen. Syst. iv. 28; DC. Prodr. viii. 185), from Penang.— 
Wallich's specimens have neither flower nor fruit, and do not resemble any Litsea 
known to me. Miquels Zetranthera? ochrascens is a Sumatran plant described 
from specimens without flower or fruit. Wallich's S. ? rugosum was overlooked when 
the genus was worked up for Vol. III. of this Flora. 
LEPIDADENIA Wightiana, Nees Syst. Laurin. 583; Wight Ic. t. 1837. Tetran- 
thera Roxburghii, Hassk. Pl. Jav. 243, excl. syn. (fid. Miquel).—This is correctly 
referred by Meissner to Blume's (not Persoon’s) L. sebifera (Cylicodaphne sebifera, 
Blume in DC. Prodr. xv.1.202). Wight's figure is taken from a single bad specimen 
without locality, and it so precisely accords with Javanese ones, that I cannot without 
further evidence believe it to be from the Nilghiris, where Wight supposes he once 
gathered it, but where neither he nor any other collector has since found it. 
Laurus umbellata, Ham, in Don Prodr. 64, from Nepal.—Meissner (in DC. 
Prodr. xv. 1. 258) doubtfully suggests this being L. tomentosa or laurifolia (sebifera, 
Pers.), but the description is far too meagre to admit of any identification. e 
authers should be 2-celled, for Don keeps it in Laurus. 
12. DODECADENIA, Nees. 
Evergreen trees. Leaves scattered, coriaceous, penninerved ; buds 
