Litsea.] LaiiracecE. 449 



1. Ii. XOTatenXo^2i^ Heyne hi Wall. Cat. n. 2550 (1828). Kosbada, 

 Xiandittan, 5. 



Tetranthera tovientosa, Roxb., Thw. Enum. 254. C. P. 2275. 

 Fl. B. Ind. V. 157. Wight, Ic. t. 1834. 



A moderate-sized tree, bark thin, grey, not furrowed, 

 branchlets stout, yellow-tomentose, bud-scales large, pubes- 

 cent ; 1. numerous, rather crowded at ends of branches, large, 

 4-10 in., oval or obovate-oval, acute at base, very shortly 

 acuminate, acute, glabrous above, finely tomentose-pubescent 

 and yellowish-white beneath, rather thick, veins prominent 

 beneath; fl. numerous, on hairy ped., umbels rather large, f in. 

 diam., solitary, on long drooping peduncle, globose before 

 expansion, bracts large, rotundate, tomentose; per.-tube short, 

 hairy, segm. o; stam. about 20, fil. slender, hairy, glands long- 

 stalked, capitate ; fruit f in., depressed-globose. 



Moist region up to 4000 ft.; common. Fl. October; pale yellow. 

 Also in Peninsular India. 



In the fern. fl. the stam. are transformed into strap-shaped staminodes. 

 Wood moderately hard and heavy, close-grained, yellowish. 



2. Zi. chinensis, Lam. Encycl. Meth. iii. 574 (1789). Bomi, 

 Bozubi, S. Eluznpurukki, T. 



Tetranthera apetala, Roxb., Moon Cat. 69. T. Roxburghii., Nees, 

 Thw. Enum. 255. T. laurifolia., Jacq., var. Roxbur^hii., Meissn. 1. c. 179. 

 C. P. 2276. 



Fl. B. Ind. V. IS7 {L. sebifera). Roxb. PI. Cor. ii. 147 (Z. apetala). 

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