182 CXXVII. LAURINEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) | Lindera. 
absence of bracts it is not possible to say it is not a T'efranthera, but it resembles no 
other, and the flowers are quite like those of a Dodecadenia. 
13. LINDERA, Thunb. 
Shrubs or trees, often deciduous. Leaves alternate or subopposite, 
penni- or 3-5-nerved; buds perulate or naked. Involucres 4-6- or more-fid., 
sessile or pedicelled, fascicled or racemose ; bracts 2-5. Flowers dicecious, 
pedicelled, umbellate or capitate. Perianth-tube very short; segments 7-9, 
subequal, small, petaloid. Stamens usually 9, 3-seriate, filaments narrow, 0 
lst and 2nd series eglandular, of 3rd (rarely of 2nd) 2-glandular ; staminodes 
in fl. 9 9; anthers 2-celled, all introrse. Fruit globose or ovoid, seated on 
the unaltered or disciform entire or 6-toothed perianth-tube.—Species about 
60, Tropical and Eastern Asia and N. America. . 
I follow Bentham (in Gen. Plant.) in bringing together under one genus all the 
Indian 1-celled Litseaceous plants, and have for the most part arranged them under 
the sections he has proposed. I expect, however, that when more complete specimens 
of this group are available, several of the genera now included under Lindera wil 
restored much upon the lines I here indicate as sections. 
Sect. I. Aperula. Leaves persistent, penninerved. Umbels long- 
pedicelled ; bracts 4, involucriform, 6-12-fld. Stamens 9. 
1. L. assamica, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 308; branchlets and leaves beneath 
rusty- or tawny-hirsute and pubescent, leaves persistent 4-6 in. lanceolate 
or elliptic-lanceolate acuminate penninerved, umbels 6-9-fld., pedicels slender 
solitary or fascicled on a short common peduncle, bracts 4 glabrous, fruit 
subglobose. Aperula assamica, Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 240. in part. 
A. Meissneri, Herb. Calcutt. 
EASTERN HIMALAYA; Bhotan, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 4316) ; Sikkim, alt. 7-9000 ft.» 
J. D. H., &e. MARTABAN Hiris, on the Nettoung, Kurz. 
A small tree or shrub, 10-30 ft. ; shoots finely pubescent. Leaves 1-2 in. diam., 
coriaceous, smooth above with impressed nerves, beneath with 6-10 pairs of strong 
nerves cross-nervules aud reticulation, base very acute; petiole i-i in. Umbels, 
male about $ in. diam. when in flower; pedicel 1-1 in., very slender, nearly gla- 
brous; flowers on slender silky pedicels 3-} in. ; fem. umbels smaller with shorter 
pedicels and shorter pedicelled flowers; bracts hemispheric. Sepals 6, subequal. 
Stamens 9, filaments hairy, 3-inner 2-glandular. Fruit nearly } in. long.—Foliage à 
good deal like that of Litsea elongata. 
2. L. Meissneri, King mes.; glabrous except the silky inflorescence, 
leaves persistent 2-3 in. ovate or ovate-lanceolate caudate-acuminate wit 
5-8 pair of very slender nerves, umbels about 9-fld., pedicels very slender 
racemed on a slender common peduncle, bracts 4 membranous. Aperula 
assamica, Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xiii. 1. 240, in part. 
ASSAM ; on the Nuku Hills, Simons. 
Closely allied to Z. Meissneriana, but the branclilets are smooth and bark as in 
L. ozyphylla, the leaves are glabrous, much smaller, more ovate, caudate-acuminate 
and hardly reticulate beneath, the petioles more slender. and the umbels smaller.— 
The specimen is a solitary one in male fl. Meissner is mistaken in uniting it with 
Griffith's 1171, and giving Jenkins as its collector. It is one of several curious p ants 
found by Simons in the Nuku Hills, where no one has since collected that I know 
of. King (in Herb. Calcutt.) observed that Meissner has included two species under 
his A, assamica, and suggested the name of Meissneri for one of them. 
