450 Lauracece. {Utsea. 



A moderate-sized tree, branchlets slender, glabrous, young 

 parts silky, buds small, hairy; 1. somewhat crowded at ends 

 of branchlets, variable, 2^-6 in., usually oblong-oval, acute 

 at base, usually obtuse, glabrous on both sides, not thick, 

 venation conspicuous beneath, petiole ^-f in. ; fl, numerous, 

 crowded, nearly sessile, umbels ^-| in., globose before expan- 

 sion, arranged in axillary stalked corymbs or umbels ; per.- 

 tube long, silky, segm. o; stam. about 20, fil. very hairy, glands 

 long-stalked ; fruit about \ in., nearly globose, purple. 



Low country up to 3000 ft.; very common. Fl. January-March; 

 greenish-yellow. 



India, Burma, Malaya, China, Australia. 



Lamarck's name has long priority over Persoon's adopted in Fl. B. 

 Ind. Wood much used in house-building ; bark glutinous, and used 

 medicinally as an external application to bruises, &c. 



3. li. undulata, Hk.f. in Fl. B. hid. v. 158 (iJ 

 Tetranthera ligustrina, Thw. Enum. 254 (non Nees). T. ligustrina^ 



var. celasiroides, Meissn. 1. c. 180. C. P. 2273. 

 Fl. B. Ind. V. 158. 



A tree, young branchlets roughly pubescent ; I. 3-6 in., 

 linear-oblong, acute at base, obtuse, glabrous except on midrib 

 beneath, finely reticulate, petiole long, pubescent ; umbels 

 solitary on stout pubescent peduncles, bracts rotundate, 

 pubescent; per.-segm, o; fil. hairy; fruit over \ in,, globose. 



Moist low country, 1000-2000 ft. ; rare. The only specimens I have 

 seen are the C. P. ones, labelled Peradeniya. 



Endemic. 



True L.ligiistrina (Nees), a native of the Nilgiris, is figured in Wight, 

 Ic. t. 1835. 



L. polyantJuiy Juss. {T. nionopetala., Roxb.). — Brandis (Forest Fl. 381) 

 gives this for Ceylon. It is not included in Thw. Enum., but C. P. 326 

 may be it. The specimens, however (collected at Badulla), consist of 

 leaves only (see Fl. B. Ind. v. 163). 



4. Xi. cauliflora, Trim. Rat-k^liya, 5. 



Tetranthera caulijiora, Moon Cat. 69. T. longijolia^ Nees, Syst. 

 Laurin. 528. Thw. Enum. 255 (excl. var. y). C. P. 223. 

 Fl. B. Ind. v. 167 (Z. longifolia). 



A small tree, bark rough, grey, young parts brown- 

 tomentose; 1. 4-10 in., oval, acute or rounded at base, acute, 

 usually glabrous above when mature, more or less rufous- 

 tomentose beneath, rather coriaceous, venation prominent 

 beneath, petiole ^-i in., stout; fl. on very short ped., umbels 

 small, 4-10 fld., on short pubescent peduncles clustered on 

 small bosses in axils of fallen 1., often on old branches; bracts 

 pubescent, caducous; per.-tube long, top-shaped, pubescent, 



