Lindera.] CXXVII. LAURINEE. (J. D. Hooker.) > 187 
15. L. Griffithii, Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 245; branches slender 
woody glabrous, leaves much too young for description 4-3 in. long deci- 
duous penninerved lanceolate acute silky, female fl. white odorous in very 
small axillary subsessile nodding clusters very shortly pedicelled and pedicels 
silky tomentose, perianth 4 in. diam., tube very short obconic, sepals 6 broad 
glabrous, staminodes very short with large glands glabrous, ovary glabrous, 
style short, stigma discoid. 
Botan, above Tongsa, alt. 8500 ft., Griffith (Kew Distrib. 4331).— Griffith 
bes the flowers and bracts as white. 
16. L.? sikkimensis, Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 245; a bush 
15 ft. high, branchlets woody rugose, shoots inflorescence and young leaves 
beneath clothed with long golden red villous hairs, leaves (young) 2-24 in. 
scattered deciduous penninerved membranous obovate-oblong narrowed into 
a short petiole, tip rounded, nerves 6-8 pair very slender, umbels subsessile 
few-fld., fem. fl. very shortly pedicelled, perianth-tube short, sepals 6 orbi- 
cular, staminodes very short almost reduced to glands, ovary ovoid glabrous, 
style short, stigma small. 
SIKKIM HIMALAYA ; Lachen, alt. 11-12,000 ft., J. D. H—This is quite unlike 
any other species of Lindera. The adult leaves probably differ a good deal from 
the young here described. 
17. Daphnidium argenteum, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 307; a deciduous 
tree, shoots silver silky hairy, leaves 34-63 in. lanceolate to broad-lanceolate 
acuminate at both ends firmly membranous glabrous above appressed sil- 
very-pubescent beneath penninerved laxly reticulate on both surfaces, petiole 
glabrescent or silvery-pubescent }-} in., flowers on very short tomentose 
pedicels forming a short densely tomentose raceme involucred by pubescent 
concave bracts at the base, perianth appressed pubescent filaments almost 
glabrous, anthers 2-celled. (Description from Kurz.) 
Marraran and Eastern slopes of the Peau Yomab, Kurz. 
De 2 Daphnidium lancifolium, Thwaites Enum. 257; Meissn. in 
ies Prodr, xy. 1. 229; “a tree young parts and inflorescence fulvous silky, 
raves (5-7) more or less crowded at the ends of the branches 2-33 b ‘4-Fin. 
Ceolate acutely acuminate smooth or minutely rugulose above white and 
bee beneath triple-nerved, base acute, lateral nerves hardly reaching 
e middle of the leaf, petiole 3-4 in., buds (umbels) 3-4-fld. with 4 scales 
waiter the branches below the leaves, flowers subsessile w in. long. 
es, 
CEYLON ; Central Province, Hapootelle district, Thwaites. 
I this its author says it is apparently near D. nielastomaceum, but the few leaves 
Mixed seen do not bear this out; he says that he has seen only a single specimen 
not d with Actinodaphne stenophylla, which it greatly resembles. The ant vers are 
euecribed, and I suspect that if 4-celled this is a Litsea, and that the = es 
See €involucral bracts. On the specimen sent to Kew Thwaites says that he ha 
n neither flower nor fruit. 
14. CASSYTHA, Linn. 
inniliform twining parasites, adhering to their hosts by suckers. Leaves 
r nte scales, or 0° Flowers minute, 2 sexual or dimorphic ? spiked capitate 
the ag mote, 3-bracteolate. Perianth-tube short and globose or (often È 
malla "pocies) as long as the limb and turbinate ; segments 6, 3 outer 
er. Perfect stamens 9, filaments of 1st series eglandular with 2-celle 
