CIX. LAUEACE^. 533 



Anthers 4-celled. 



Perianth in fruit with persistent tube and 



usually deciduous segments 3. Cinnauomum. 



Perianth in fruit with persistent reflexed 



segments 4. Machilus. 



Perianth wholly deciduous 6. Alseodapiine. 



Anther-cells of all rows introrse, 4-celled ; flowers dioe- 

 cious. 



Flowers clustered in densely imbricating (not whorled) 



bracts 6. Actinodapiine. 



Flowers umbellate, the heads supported by 4-6 



whorled bracts 7. Litsea. 



Parasitic leafless twining herbs 8. Cassytiia. 



1. CRYPTOCARYA, E. Br. 



Evergreen trees or shrubs. Leaves usually alteruate, 3-nerved froui 

 the base or penninerved. Flowers small, hermaphrodite, in axillary and 

 subtermiual panicles. Perianth-tube turbinate or ovoid, ultimately 

 narrowed at the top ; lobes of limb 6, subequal. Stamens 9 perfect, 

 those of the 2 outer series with eglandular filaments and introrse 2-celled 

 anthers, those of the third series with 2-glandular filaments and extrorse 

 2-celled anthers, those of the fourth series replaced by stipitate stami- 

 nodes. Ovary sessile at the base of the perianth, enclosed in the lube ; 

 style shortly exserted ; stigma obtuse or discoid. Fruit wholly enclosed 

 in the perianth-tube and sometimes adnate to it ; tube accrescent, 

 hardened or somewhat fleshy, smooth or ribbed, the mouth occluded ; 

 limb deciduous or more or less persistent; pericarp membranous or hard. 

 Seed with a membranous testa often scarcely separable from the 

 pericarp. — Distkib. Species 40, tropical and subtropical. 



1. Cryptocarya Wightiana, Thw. Emun. (18G1) p. 254. A large 

 tree ; young parts rusty-pubescent ; bark thin, with large corky leuticels. 

 Leaves coriaceous, 4-10 by l|-4 in., elliptic-oblong, shortly acuminate, 

 glabrous above, whitish beneath, base subacute or rounded; main nerves 

 7-10 pairs, prominent and more or less pubescent beneath, arcuate, with 

 reticulate venation between; petioles |-| in. long. Flowers yellowish, 

 numerous, in spreading axillary pubescent panicles usually shorter than 

 the leaves ; pedicels short. Perianth of male floAvers ^ in. long, 

 pubescent outside, divided about |-way down; segments oblong, obtuse. 

 Fruit ^ in. in diam. or | by | in., subglobose or oblong-ellipsoid, glabrous, 

 purple-black. 



The fruit of the specimens from Matheran is oblong-ellipsoid, that 

 of specimens from Travaucore and Ceylon seems to be more globose. 

 Fl. B. I. V. 5, p. 120 ; Bedd. Flor. Sylvat. t. 299 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 3, 

 p. 439 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 282 ; AV^oodr. in Journ. Bomb. 

 Nat. Y. 12 (1899) p. 367 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 2, p. 624. Crypto- 

 carya Jlorihunda, Wight, Icon. t. 1 829 {not of Nees) ; Dalz. & Gibs. 

 p. 222. — Flowers : Dec-Apr. VERisr, Gulmnr. 



Konkan : Matheran, Cooke !, Woodrow , H. M. Birdwood. Kanaka : Stocks ! ; 

 Yellapur Ghats, Talhot, 2879!; Nilkund Ghat, Talbot, 2872 !~Disteib. India 

 (W. Peninsula) ; Ceylon. 



