C'lx. laitrace.t:. 537 



tree ; bark dark-colored, smooth. Leaves coriaceous, crowded towards 

 the ends of the branchlets, appearing whorled from crowding, 3-6 by 

 l|-34 in., elhptic-oblong or obovate, rounded at the apex, glabrous, very 

 finely reticulately veined, usually glaucous beneath, base tapering ; main 

 nerves 6-8 pairs ; petioles §-| in. long. Flowers yellowish-green, in 

 subumbellate cymes at the tips of the branches of large lax axillary and 

 subterminal panicles ; peduncles usually longer than the leaves, the 

 lower portion naked ; pedicels rather long. Perianth g-^ in. long 

 segments elliptic-oblong, obtuse, subequal or the outer rather smaller 

 Fruit |-| in. long, ellipsoid, blunt, smooth. Fl. B. I. v. 5, p. 144 

 Dalz. & Gibs. p. 222 ; Wight, Icon. tt. 1826, 1827; Bedd. Flor. Sylvat 

 t. 297 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 3, p. 444 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 284 

 Woodr. in Journ, Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 367.— Flowers : July- 

 Dec. Vern. Phiiclgus. 



Dalzell without locality in Herb. Kew. ! Konkan : Matlieran, H. M. Birdwood. 

 Kanaka : Law ! ; Yacombi (N. Kanara), Woodrow ! ; evergreen forests on the N. Kanara 

 Ghats from the coast inland, Talhot. — Distrib. India (W. Peninsula) ; Ceylon. 



Var. 1, rufa, Hook. f. Fl. B, I. v. 5, p. 144. The red color on the 

 leaves of the solitary specimen in Herb. Kew. appears to have been 

 caused by laterite dust adhering to them, a case of common occurrence 

 on the laterite-topped hills of the Western Ghats. 



Var. 2. anyustifolia, Nees, in DC. Prodr. v. 15, part 1, p. 27. Leaves 

 3-5 by 1-1| in., oblong-lanceolate, obtuse or subacute, glaucous 

 beneath. 



Z^a/^c/i? without locality in Herb. Kew. ! Kanara : Stocks ! ; near Yellapur, common, 

 Talbot. Abundant in Ceylon, where {fide Trimen) it is one of the best timber-trees in 

 the forests of that island. 



6. ACTINODAPHNE, Nees. 



Evergreen shrubs or trees. Leaves almost whorled, peuninerved or 

 3-nerved. Flowers small, dioecious, in axillary or lateral dense sessile 

 or pedunculate fascicles or umbels ; bracts imbricatiDg, caducous (not 

 whorled). Perianth-tube short ; segments 6, subequal. Maxe flowers: 

 Stamens 9 perfect (rarely only 6), those of the 2 outer rows with 

 eglandular filaments, the third row sometimes obsolete, if present with 

 2-glandular filaments ; anthers of all three rows introrse, 4- celled. 

 Ovary reduced and empty or obsolete. Female flowers : Stamiuodes 9. 

 Ovary free ; style lougish ; stigma dilated. Fruit a berry resting on 

 the enlarged hardened flat spreading or concave perianth-tube. Seed 

 with thin testa. — Distrib. Species 50, Eastern Asia and Malaya. 



1. Actinodaphne Hookeri, Meissn. in DC. Prodr. v. 15, part 1 

 (1864) p. 218 (exclud. var. longifolia). A medium-sized tree. Leaves 

 coriaceous, in 2 whorls of 3 each, 4-7 by 1|-2| in., penninerved, elliptic- 

 lanceolate, finely acuminate, the mature leaves glabrous above and 

 usually clothed with thin tomentum beneath, the young leaves densely 

 silky with long tawny hairs, base usually acute ; main nerves 6-10 

 pairs; petioles |-1 in. long, silky-pubescent. Flowers dioecious, yellowish, 

 from the naked branches, the males in clusters of about 8, the females 

 umbellate or subracemose on very short stout peduncles ; pedicels clothed 



