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longa, utrinque acuta, nunc apicem, tunc basin versus la- 

 tiora, et sublanceolata, margine cartilagineo integerrima, 

 rigida, utrinque glabra, subtus glauca, nervis lateralibus 

 non omnino oppositis triplinervia, nervis nonnullis vagis 

 subtus prominulis et venis minutis transver$is reticulata. 

 Petiolus brevissimus, semiteres, estipulaceus. 



3. In the gardens at Rangpur I found growing a tree, said to 

 have been introduced from the mountains of Bhotan, and which, 

 owing probably to the heat of the climate at Rangpur, did not 

 produce flowers. Its name was not known. I shall therefore 

 call it after the Sanscrita appellation of the country of which it 

 is a native. 



Laurus sailyana, foliis utrinque acutis, lanceolato-ovatis, sub- 



quintuplinerviis. 

 Habitat in montibus Emodi superioribus prope Tistam fluvium. 



Arbor mediocris ramis suboppositis, teretibus, glabris ; ramulis 

 compressis, subquadrangularibus. Folia saepiils suboppo- 

 sita, oblonga, sed basin versus saepius latiora, utrinque 

 acuta, integerrima, utrinque glabra, subtus glauca. Ner- 

 vus utrinque ad basin folii minutus, decurrens ; interme- 

 dius paulo supra basin semper trifidus ramis lateralibus bi- 

 fidis, vel saepe bipartitis, unde folium, posthabitis nervis 

 lateralibus minutis, quasi quintuplinervium, venis trans- 

 versis obsolete reticulatum. 



Vis aromatica tota in radicis cortice posita. Hie autem cortex 

 laevis, colore lateritius, odoratissimus, sapore grato aroma- 

 ticus. Cortex ramorum et folia insipida, inodora. 



4. In the woods of Camrupa, on the banks of the Tista, I 

 found a tree, which I at first took to be the Katou Carua of the 



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