Lindera.] CXXVIII. LAURINEX. (J. D. Hooker.) 185 
young leaves fulvous- or rusty-hairy or tomentose, leaves persistent 3-4 in. 
ovate- or elliptic-lanceolate caudate-acuminate triple-nerved almost to the tip, 
owers minute in very short subglobose solitary or clustered spikes bracteate 
and 2-bracteolate, bracteoles large the pair enclosing single flowers, fruit 
globose seated on the 6-cleft perianth-tube. Daphnidium caudatum, Wees 
m Wall. Pl. As. Rar. ii. 63, and Syst. Laurin. 608; Meissn. in DO. Prodr. 
xv. 1. 230; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 907. "Tetranthera caudata, Wall. Cat. 2566. 
Kuasta Mrs., alt. 4-5000 ft., Wallich, Griffith, &c. MARTABAN and TENAS- 
SERIM, about 6000 ft., Kurz. 
"A small slender tree. Leaves brown when dry, subglaucous beneath with strong 
nerves and cross-nervules, thinly coriaceous, opaque above, base subacute; petiole 
slender, } in. Flowers distinctly spicate on a very short tomentose rachis, each sessile 
in the axil of a small bract and enclosed in two concave pubescent ratber thin 
racteoles ; flower and bracteole about q; in. long. Perianth villous within and with- 
out at the base, Sepals 6, membranous, subequal. Stamens 9, villous, 3 inner 2- 
glandular (in the female 6 short filaments, each with 2 very large glands). Ovary 
glabrous with a stout style and very large discoid stigma. Fruit } in. diam.—Th 
single flowers being bracteate recalls Actinodaphne sikkimensis. . 
10. T. pulcherrima, Benth. in Gen. Plant. iii. 164; glabrous except 
the silky buds, leaves persistent 4-5 in. elliptic-oblong -ovate or -lanceolate 
caudate-acuminate triple-nerved pale or glaucous beneath, umbels 5-6-fld. 
enclosed in 4-6 large concave imbricating deciduous bracts, fruit ellipsoid. 
aphnidium pulcherrimum, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. ii. 63, and Syst. 
aurin. 610; Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 229; Brand. For. Fl. 383; 
urz For, Fl. ii. 806; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 312. 
TEMPERATE HIMALAYA ; from Kumaon, alt. 5-8000 ft., to Sikkim and Bhotan, 
Y ft. KHASIA Mrs., alt. 5-6000 ft. MARTABAN; on hills ascending to 
+) &urz.—DrisTRIB. Munnipore. 
A large tree; branchlets hoary. Leaves membranous or thinly coriaceous, 
fnqtish when dry, minutely reticulate above with 3 slender raised nerves, beneat 
my reticulate, caudate tip often 1 in. long and very slender ; petiole slender, 3-4 in. 
alere quite sessile, globose; bracts pale, rather thin, concave, subsilky, outer 
wmaller; flowers on short silky-tomentose pedicels; perianth silky. Sepals 6, oblong, 
gembranous, equal or subequal. Stamens 9, filaments short, nearly glabrous ; of 
wuale‘reduced to 2 glandular filaments. Ovary and style pubescent; stigma very 
ee Fruit y in, long; perianth wholly deciduous, or rarely fragments remain; 
Pedicel slender, 3-7 in., not thickened at the tip. 
leave; I melastomacea, Benth. in Gen. Plant. iti. 164; quite glabrous, 
ol aves persistent 2-3 in. coriaceous obovate- or oblanceolate-oblong short " 
le usely acuminate triple-nerved not glaucous beneath, umbels s at . 
naw’ solitary or clustered, bracts 4, fruit ellipsoid. Daphnidium mel asto- 
in pam. Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. ii. 63, and Syst. Laurin. 607; .Mewsn. 
C. Prodr. xv, 1. 228. Laurus cuspidata, Don Prodr. 64. 
A shrub or small tree, with iff erect leafy branches. Zeaves coriaceous, greenish 
rows when dry, smooth above with.3 strong nerves and indistinct nervules, the 
atter Very slender and indistinct beneath, base narrowed into the very short, (i-i in.) 
time Umbels globose in bud, usually crowded and sessile in the leaf axils, some- 
fona very shortly stoutly pedicelled ; bracts very coriaceous, hemispheric, gh rous ; 
"nbi on villously silky pedicels, villous within. Sepals 6, equal or unequa qe 
s 9, filaments hairy, 3 inner 2-glandular. Ovary not seen. Frui H In, long, 
on the persistent or broken up hardly changed perianth-tube; pedicel j-j in. 
Sect. IV. Sassafrimorpha, Benth. Leaves deciduous, triple- or 
—ORüntuple nerve. 
