76 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Vol. XIX. 



Trees with Alternate Exstifulate Simple Leaves. 



Lits^a. sebifora, 



Maid i-lnlif't, gii''a. 

 LAURINEiE. 

 F. B.I. V. \Tu. 

 Tho Plains. 



Petals None. 



oblong with round ends, black when ripe, hall:' buried 

 in the calyx segments, which become stiff and pressed 

 against it. 



medium size ; bark dark grey, soft, corky ; young 

 parts covered with grey wool ; leaves 4-10 in. long, 

 ovate or oblong, short or long pointed, slightly downy 

 above, and grey woolly beneath ; flowers white in few 

 •i-6 flowered clusters on a common short stalk with 4 

 bracts, male and female on different trees, calyx 4-6 

 lobed, tubular, stamens 9 or more ; fruit round, ^ 

 in. diam.. supported on the remains of the flower, 

 black. 



Litsasa Polyantlia, 



Katiiiarm. 



Laurine^. 



F. R. I. V. 102. 



Salt range. The Plains 



to 3,000 feet. 



Litsasa languinosa, 



Laurine^. 



F. B. I. V. 178. 



Himalaya, 3,000 ft. 

 Satlej Valley (Collett). 



small ; bark dark grey, smooth ; leaves 4-H in, 

 long, smooth above, rusty woolly beneath, broad ; 

 flowers as in last species but with five bracts ; fruit 

 in. 



ovoid oblong 



_L 1 



small : bark brown ; leaves 6-12 in. long, crowded 

 at the end of branches, thick leathery, densely silky 

 when young, narrow long pointed : flowers in fours 

 in sessile clusters 1 in diam. silky or woolly, 

 stamens 6, glands of inner stamens long stalked ; 

 fruit ^ in. long, pointed at both ends, seated on the 

 thick end of the stalk. 



Litsaea tunbrosa, 



Laurine-sj. 



F. B. 1. V. 179. 



Hiiaalaya, 3-9,000 ft. 



Mahasu, Narkanda 



(Collett). 



small ; bark dark brown ; leaves o-C) in. long, 

 oblong long pointed, thinly leathery ; flowers yellowish 

 white with 5 bracts in small sessile clusters, calyx 4- 

 lobed, stamens 6, with sessile glands not as long as 

 in the last species ; fruit -/^j in. diam., round or oblong 

 on slender stalks h in. long. 



Elaea^miS hortensiS small ; branches silvery with scales, often spinous, 

 El.eagnace.^. dark brown when older ; leaves oblong ovate, 1-3 



F. B I. V. 201. JQ_ long, blunt, stalk } in. silvery beneath ; flowers 



Western Himalaya, i j. -^^^ j^^g^ silvery, bell shaped above, stalked, 

 6-7,000 It. (Edgeworth). ygjjy^^ fragrant, solitary or in clusters of three, calyx 



of 4, triangular ovate, teeth, soon falling off, stamens 



