Cryptocarya. | LAURINES (Stapf). 495 
smooth or longitudinally ribbed ; pericarp membranous or indurated, 
more or less free from the receptacle. Testa membranous, not or 
imperfectly separable from the pericarp. 
Trees or shrubs ; leaves alternate, rarely subopposite, penninerved or 3-nerved, 
coriaceous ; flowers small, in subterminal or axillary panicles, rarely solitary. 
Disrris. Over 40 species in the tropics (mostly in the Indo-Malayan region) 
and 6 in extra-tropical South Africa, 
Leaves linear to linear-lanceolate, about 8 times as long 
as broad... ane se sey ey ac +. (1) angustifolia. 
Leaves elliptic or ovate, about twice (or less) as long as 
broad : : 
Leaves more or less cuneate and acute at the base ; 
flowers in axillary panicles or few- to 1-flowered 
cymes : 
Leaves tri- or tripli-nerved at the base, usually very 
obtuse ote es sk at . (2) latifolia. 
Leaves not tri- or tripli-nerved at the base, acute or 
acuminate : 
' Leaves broad-elliptic, obtusely acuminate ; panicles 
lax, the upper often reduced to few-flowered 
cymes or solitary flowers ee. aie ... (3) Woodii. 
Leaves elliptic-lanceolate, acute at both ends ; 
panicles dense and short ies aan «» (4) myrtifolia. 
Leaves rounded at the base, almost permanently 
hairy below ; flowers in 3-1-flowered axillary or 
terminal cymes, or solitary on short leafy 
branchlets : 
Reticulation raised on both sides of the leaves, 
these therefore punctate or foveolate ,.. + (5) Sutherlandii. 
Reticulation. impressed above, raised below ; 
upper side of leaf therefore finely rugose 
under the lens... ee ies er ..» (6) Wyliei. 
1. C. angustifolia (E. Meyer in Drége, Zwei Pf. Documente, 97, 
99, 176; name only); a tall shrub, 8-12 ft. high; branches 
glabrous except at the growing tips which are fulvo-pubescent ; 
leaves linear-lanceolate, acute at both ends, with a callous acute 
point at the tips, 2-34 in. long, 3-5 lin. broad, coriaceous, glossy 
above, glaucous underneath, fulvo-pubescent in bud, very soon 
glabrous, lateral nerves numerous, spreading and like the very close 
reticulation faintly raised on both sides; petioles 1-2} lin. long; 
panicles axillary, up to 3 in. long (including the peduncle), few- to 
over 12-flowered, the lowest and longest often leafy, the uppermost 
much reduced and short, very finely pubescent ;: bracts lanceolate to 
subulate, deciduous, small; bracteoles minute, subulate ; pedicels 
hardly any or up to | lin. long, slender ; perianth subcampanulate, up 
to over 1} lin. long, greyish to fulvously pubescent within and without 
excepting the obovoid receptacle which is glabrous within ; segments 
subequal, elliptic-oblong, up to 1 lin. long ; filaments very minutely 
pubescent ; anthers as long as and broader than the filaments, ovate, 
obtuse, minutely pubescent on the back and at the tips, about 2 lin. 
long; staminal glands distinctly stipitate, capitate ; staminodes } lin. 
