454 Lauracece. \Lindera. 



Upper montane zone, 6000-8000 ft. ; rather common. About Nuwara 

 Eliya, frequent. FI. Jan., Feb. ; yellowish. 

 Endemic. 



12. Ii. zeylanica, Nees ht Amcpft. Bot. Bonn. fasc. i, 58 (1823). 

 Dawul-kurundu, Kudu-dawula, S. 



Herm. Mus. 26. Fl. Zeyl. n. 146 (part). Latirus Cassia, L. Sp. PI. 

 (part) ; Moon Cat. 32. 



Thw. Enum. 257 (excl. van /3). Tetradenia zcylanica, Nees in Wall. 

 PI. As. Ran ii. 64. C. P. 2281. 



Fl. B. Ind. V. 178. Wight, Ic. tt. 132, 1844. 



A small tree, bark thick, smooth, grey, branchlets slender, 

 buds small, minutely puberulous ; 1. numerous, closely placed 

 at ends of branches, 3-5 in., lanceolate, tapering to both ends, 

 obtuse or subacute, glabrous, not coriaceous, somewhat 

 undulate, more or less glaucous beneath, distinctly 3-nerved 

 at base, minutely reticulate, petiole J-f in., slender; umbels 

 small, sessile, clustered, 4- or 5 -flowered, bracts slightly silky; 

 pen-tube rather long, hairy, segm. 4, acute, deciduous ; fruit 

 either ^ in. oblong-ovoid apiculate, or ^ in. globose not 

 apiculate, dark purple. 



Van /3, rubrinervia, Meissn. 1. c. 226. C. P. 3449. 



Leaves coriaceous and thick, not glaucous beneath ; the 

 main veins obscure, the fine reticulation very conspicuous. 



Moist region up to 4000 ft., very common. Van ft, Ratnapura. Fl. 

 April. 



E. Bengal, Burma, Malaya. Van ft in S. India. 



Commonly known as ' Wild Cinnamon,' and like it in foliage ; but the 

 leaves have scarcely any scent or flavour. Wood rather light, moderately 

 hard, even-grained, pale orange ; used in house-building. 



8. IiINDERA, Thttn/?. 



Trees, 1. semi-whorled, obscurely 3-nerved at base, umbels 

 3- or 4-flowered, in axils of fallen 1., bracts 4 ; fl. as in Litsea, 

 but per. -segm. 7-9 and anth. all introrse, 2-celled ; fruit 

 globose or ovoid, seated on persistent per.-tubc. — Sp. 60; 

 18 in Fl. B. Ind. 



Xi. lancifolia, Thw. Enum. 257 {Daphnidium) (1861). 

 Meissn. 1. c. 229. C. P. 356. 

 Fl. B. Ind. v. 187. 



A tree, young parts fulvous-pubescent ; 1. scmi-whorlcd, 

 2-3 in., lanceolate, acute at both ends, glabrous, white beneath, 

 obscurely 3-nerved at base, rather coriaceous ; umbels sessile, 

 bracts fulvous-hairy; fl. subsossile; fruit not seen. 



Montane zone, very rare. I I ave only the C. P. specimen collected 



