186 CXXVIII. LAURINEE. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Lindera. 
12. L. heterophylla, Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 246; branches 
robust, shoots and leaves beneath rusty-tomentose, leaves deciduous 2-4 in. 
entire or 3-lobed at the tip, old coriaceous orbicular ovate or oblong obtuse or 
subacute quintuple-nerved at the rounded or cordate base, umbels subsessile 
many-fld., flowers in the axils of large imbricating deciduous villous mem- 
branous bracts, fruit ellipsoid. Benzoin sericeum and Lindera triloba C 
Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. & T. Daphnidium bifarium in part, Meissn. 1n DC. 
l. c. 231 (not of Nees). Hamamelidea, Griff. Itin. Notes, 147. 
EASTERN TEMPERATE HIMALAYA ; Sikkim, alt. 8-10,000 ft., J. D. H. Bhotan ; 
at Oongar, alt. 9—10,000 ft., Griffith. ds 
A shrub or small tree, with !flexuous branches, flowering when leafless ; bu 
clothed with imbricate scales. Leaves 2-4 in. broad, old brown when dry; above 
rather shining with.sunk nerves aud reticulations, beneath with very strong next 
lobes if present triangular, subacute; petiole 4-3 in., stout. Umbels (or contract : 
spikes) j-$ in. diam., with 3-5 very coriaceous imbricating scales at the base; Tlóe 
flower in the axil of a subspathulate or obovate-oblong coricave bract that is vi th. 
with long hairs at the back; pedicels short, villous, as is the base of the perian . 
Sepals linear-oblong, subsilkily hairy. Stamens 9, filaments very short, glabrous; 
3 or more 2.glandular. Fruit immature. 
13. L. Neesiana, Benth. in Gen. Plant. iii. 164; quite glabrous, 
leaves deciduous 3-7 in. membranous ovate acute or acuminate triple- 
nerved at the cuneate or cordate base, umbels solitary or clustered pedi- 
celled 5—7-fld., bracts 4 membranous. glabrous, fruit small globose. Aus 
For. Fl. ii. 309- Aperula Neesiana, Blume Mus. Bot. i.366; Meissn. m 
DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 241. Benzoin Neesianum, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. 
ii. 63, and Syst. Laurin. 498. Tetranthera Neesiana, Wall. Cat. 2538. 
T prunifolia, Wall. mss. ? Laurus macrophylla, Don Prodr. 64; Meissn. 
. c. 258. 
TEMPERATE HIMALAYA; Nepal, Wallich; Sikkim, alt. 6-8000 ft., J. D. H. 
A very spicy tree; shoots terete, smooth, usually quite black when dry, often very 
stout, Leaves 13-4} in. diam., smooth and reticulated above when dry, more or pon 
glaucous beneath with 4-6 pairs of nerves besides the basal which do not reach the 
middle of the leaf, and slender distant reticulated ones. Umbels unopened, globose, 
3 in. diam., on slender pedicels 3-3 in.; outer bracts hemispheric, inner narrower; 
flowers on tomentose pedicels, 1 in. diam., ‘green. Sepals orbicular, nearly glabrous 
very membranous. Stamens 9, filaments short, glabrous, inner 2-glandular. Fru 
& in. diam., seated on the unaltered perianth with fragments of the sepals.— This has. 
much the habit of L. oxyphylla and Litsea polyantha. hort 
Var. ? Griffithii; bark of branchlets quite white, umbels racemose on a $ o 
slender peduncle. — Mishmi Mts., Griffith. 
SPECIES OF UNDETERMINED SECTION. 
14. L. bootanica, Meissn.in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 245; branches stout pale 
grey deeply grooved (by contraction of the bark), annual shoots herbaceous 
black when dry, leaves (young) scattered deciduous membranous 3-5 in. penn! 
nerved lanceolate acuminate densely softly tomentose beneath narrows 
into the 4 in. slender petiole, buds ovoid large with very broad dense y 
silky scales, umbels of fem. fl. on a stout glabrous 3 in. peduncle, fowo 
8-10 on stout villously silky or tomentose pedicels, perianth-tube v p 
panulate villous, lobes 6 or more unequal oblong erect glabrous, staminoc th 
on the top of the tube narrow spathulate exserted slightly hairy, some VJ 
pedicelled glands, ovary ovoid sunk in the perianth-tube, stigma sessile. " 
BHOTAN, Griffith (919 a) (Kew Distrib. 4325).—A. few very imperfect gear 
flowers are scattered among the females. They are in a broken condition, have 4 
short perianth-tube, and short filaments, and 2.celled oblong anthers. 
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