533 CIX. LAURACE.i;. 



with tawny hairs, those of the female flowers longer than the male. 

 Perianth densely clothed with tawny hairs ; segments elliptic or ovate. 

 Stamens 9 in the male flowers, reduced in the female to strap-shaped 

 antherless staminodes, of the same number as the male stamens or 

 less ; filaments thickly covered with whitish hairs, the interior row of 3 

 with 2 somewhat reniform glands at the base of each filament, the glands 

 in the male flowers slightly stalked, those of the female sessile. Style 

 rather thick; stigma large, mushroom-shaped, obhque. Berry 5-^ in. 

 long, ellipsoid, red when ripe, seated on the cup-shaped enlarged perianth- 

 tube, n. B. I. V. 5, p. 149 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 284 ; Woodr. 

 in Journ. Bomb. Kat. v. 12 (1899) p. 3G7 ; AVatt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 1, 

 p. 104. Actinodaphne Imiceolata, J3alz. & Gibs. p. 312. A. anqustifol'ia, 

 Nees, in Wall. PI. xis. Ear. v. 3 (1832) p. 31 ; Wight, Icon.' t. 1841. 

 Tetranthera lancecefolia. Grab. Cat. p. 174 (noi of Eoxb.). — Flowers: 

 Nov. Veen. Pisa. 



i)rt:^^e;/witbontlocalitv inHerb. Kew. ! Koxkan : Law'.; Matheran, Offo Kmifse I, 

 Cookel Deccan: Mabablesliwar, very common, CooJcel, H. M. Birdwood, Dnlzell ^ 

 Gibson, Woodrow. Kanaka : Slocks ! ; evergreen forests of N. Kanara, Talbot. — 

 DiSTRiB. India (W. Peninsula). 



7. LITSEA, Lamk. 



Evergreen (rarely deciduous) trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate (rarely 

 opposite or subopposite), penninerved (rarely 3-nerved from the base); 

 buds naked or scaly. Flowers small, dioBcious, usually umbellate ; 

 umbels 4-6 (rarely more)-flo\vered, sessile or shortly pedunculate, axil- 

 lary or in the scars of fallen lea\es ; bracts involucrate, 4-6 (rarely 

 more) to an involucre, concave, coriaceous or membranous. Perianth- 

 tube ovoid, campanulate, or very short ; lobes of limb 6 or 4 (rarely 

 fewer or more), equal or unequal or in a few wanting. Male flowehs : 

 Stamens 9 or 12 in 3-merous, 6 in 2-merous flowers (sometimes by 

 abortion fewer than 6 and in a few more than 12) ; filaments of the 

 first and second rows usually eglandular, those of the third and fourth 

 (if present) 2-glandular ; anthers all introrse, 4-celled. Ovary minute, 

 empty or obsolete (very rarely perfect). Female flowers : Staminodes 

 9 or 12, or in 2-merous flowers 6 (rarely more than 12). Ovary enclosed 

 in the perianth-tube or free; style short or long; stigma usually 

 irregularly lobed. Fruit a drupe or berry resting on the unchanged 

 perianth or partly clasped at the base by the often much enlarged discoid 

 or cupular perianth-tube. Seed with thin testa. — Disxrib. Tropical 

 and Eastern Asia, Australasia, the Pacific Islands, rare in Africa and 

 America ; species 140. 



Leaves persistent, penninerved. 



Periantb-segments ineompiete or wanting ; tube bardly en- 

 larged in fruit ; stamens numerous, often 20. 



Leaves tbiok, finely tomentose bcneatii ; umbels solitary, 



many-Ilowerod 1. L. tomcntosa. 



Leaves thin, glabrous beneath or nearly so ; umbels co- 

 rymbose or racemose, few-fluwered 2. L. chi)ien.'>is. 



Perianth-segments 6 ; tube enlarged, cup-shaped in fruit ; 

 stamens about 12. 



Leaves glaucous beneath : filaments glabrous 3. L. Stocksii. 



Leaves rusty-tomeiit >so bcnealli ; filaments hairy 4. L. Wightiana. 



Leaves 3-nervcd ; periantlj-segments usually 4, deciduous .'1. L. cci/laiiica. 



