448 LauracecS. [Actitnuiaphne. 



Endemic. 



1 follow Sir J. Hooker in uniting these, and placing them under 

 Actinodaphne. Var. /3, which I should prefer to keep separate, is very 

 like some forms oi A. molochina to which Meissner placed it. 



7. A. speciosa, Nees^ Syst. Laurin. 602 (1836). 

 Thw. Enum. 257. Meissn. I. c. 219. C. P. 674. 

 Fl. B. Ind. V. 153. Wight, Ic. t. 1842. 



A tree, 20-40 ft., slightly branched, bark thick, smooth, 

 grey, branchlets stout, densely covered with rufous tomentum, 

 bud-scales large, obtuse, very silky outside ; 1. opp. or 3 

 together, large, 5-9 in., broadly oval or rotundate, shortly 

 acuminate, obtuse, glabrous above when mature, covered 

 beneath (and above when young) with very dense long 

 ferrugineous wool, very thick, venation very prominent and 

 conspicuous beneath and impressed above, penninerved but 

 somewhat 3-nerved at base ; fl. on woolly ped., perianth 

 tomentose, segm. deciduous; fruit f in., ovoid, persistent 

 per.-tube very shallowly cup-shaped. 



Var. ^. Candolleana, Hk. f. A. Candolleaiia^ Meissn. 1. c. 219. 

 C. P. 3371. 



L. narrower, acute at base, less tomentose. 



Forests of upper montane zone, 5000-8000 ft. ; common. Var. /3 ex- 

 tending down to 4000 ft. Fl. March, April ; yellowish-brown. 



Endemic. 



The beautiful and remarkably large velvety leaves are very con- 

 spicuous objects in the hill-forests when young, and are called ' elephants' 

 ears;' the tomentum is very dense, and of a fine ruddy-orange colour. 

 Wood rather heavy, smooth, yellowisli. 



7. IiITSEA,* Z^jw. (1789). {Tetranthera, Jacq. [1797])- 



Trees, rarely shrubs, 1. alt., penninerved (rarely 3-nerved at 

 base), fl. small, dioecious, in small umbels, bracts 4, concave, 

 forming an involucre of 2 pair, imbricate before expansion 

 and looking like scp. ; per.-tube long or short, segm. 4, 6, or 8, 

 usually deciduous, or none; stam. usually 9 (often 6 or 8 or 

 12 or 20), in three or four rows, fil. of first and second rows 

 with glands, of third and fourth without glands, anth. 4-celled, 

 all introrse; fruit globose or ovoid, often succulent, seated on 

 flattened or shallowly cup-shaped much-enlarged per.-tube. — 

 Sp. 140; 65 in Fl. B. I lid. 



* From the Chinese, Litsr, the name of C. chinensis. Lam. 



