Dodecadenia.] ^ cxxvin. LauRINER. (J. D. Hooker.) 181 
perulate, Flowers 2-sexual, subsoli 
: ^8 d-Se , solitary or 2-3 together, subsessil 
arte and pedicelled, each with 4-5 imbricating bracts. Perianth-tube 
slender ‘oo 6-9, subequal, spreading. Perfect stamens 10-15 ; filaments 
anthers all niea otiose Re ee of 3rd and dth glandular; 
perianth tube, stoutly Dedicelled. ruit seated on the dilated thick flattish 
l D. grandiflora, Nees i T 
Lauri ; » Nees in Wall. Pi. As. Rar. ii. 63, and Syst. 
tweet: branchlets and young leaves silky-tomentose, leaves elliptic. 
Prod, e acuminate, flowers subsolitary, ovary hirsute. JMeissn. in DC. 
den. xv. 1. 210; Brandis For. FL 381; Kurz For. FI. ii, 304. Tetran- 
grandiflora, Wall. Cat. 2544. P Laurus macrophylla, Don Prodr. 64. 
TEMPERATE HIMALA Z 
ù . YA; Kumaon, alt. 8000 ft. ; ; 
the Jiiakyen Hills Kurz. Nepal, Wallich. , Blinkworth, &c. BURMA, on 
eorig inches rugged, shoots subsilkily tomentose, Leaves 3-4 in. (rarely 6-8), thinly 
very slendorinutely reticulate on both surfaces, opaque beneath; nerves 6-8 pair, 
‘pedicels very ; petiole i-i in. slender, young tomentose. Flowers à in. diam.; © 
Perianth-sey short, covered with the scars of bracts which are oblong silky } in. long. 
Ovary hien es oblong, obtuse, hoary within. Filaments slender, exserted, villous. 
in; perianth stigma oblique, lobulate. Fruit } in. long, ellipsoid ; peduncle stout, 
suggests this boing Dose 4 in. diam., entire. Meissner (in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 258) 
: k on's Laurus m , iption i 
admit of any identification. acrophylla, but, Don's description is too meagre to 
2. . 
late ih riffithii, Hook. f; branchlets glabrous, leaves elliptic-lanceo- 
inate, flowers subsolitary, ovary glabrous, style hirsute. 
Buorax, Griftth (Kew Distrib. 4312). | 
and the leavers to D. grandiflora, but the branchlets and ovary are quite glabrous, 
seen no fruit much more strongly reticulate between the nerves beneath. I have 
without labro racts 4 to each flower. Sepals 6, coriaceous, oblong, obtuse, silky 
the lon E m within; tube turbinate. Stamens 10, filaments all villous ; 4 of 
ger eglandular; 2 of the longer 2-glandular; 4 short ones 2-glandular. 
E D. ? paniculata, Hook. f: ; quite glabrous, leaves elliptic-ovate or 
pedi e acute or acuminate coriaceous, flowers in axillary panicles long- 
ed, ovary glabrous. Tetranthera chartacea, Meissn. in DC. Prodr. 
Xv. 1. 186 (the Sikkim plant only). 
at gerne HIMALAYA, J. D. H.; at Mik, alt. 3000 ft., Clarke. BHOTAN; in woods 
A small rifith-—DistR1B. Munnipore. 
Leaves 5-9 tree, 40 ft. (Clarke); branches quite smooth and glabrous, rather slender. 
9r less glau y 2-2} in., coriaceous, pale brown and rather shining above, beneath more 
transver, cous or white, base acute cuneate or rounded; nerves 5-10 pairs, reddish, 
erse nervules and reticulations distinct; petiole }-% in., rather stout. Panicles 
ith often 3 terminal 
Owers ; : . I D 
TS; pedicels 4 in., stiff, thickened at the tip; flowers in. diam., apparently 
nd recurved, connate at the 
put into Dodecadenia. 
artacea, Wall.? B. areo- 
a 
No Griffith in his Itinerary 
tes, p. 113 (n, 404), calls it a Tetranthera, and describes it as a large tree. In the 
curious plant, whi tat 
und » which I hesitatingl 
la Tetranthera, and in Herb. fool has labelled it 7. ch 
