540 CIX. LAUEACEJE. 



\vitb sliglitly revolute margins, penniueryed, base acute ; main nerves 

 8-12 pairs, strong, the midrib and nerves glabrous with a slightly- 

 yellowish tinge when fresh ; petioles ^-g in. long, stout, glabrous. 

 Heads of flowers in racemes axillary and from the old scars, the heads 

 consisting of 4-8 fl.owers (very often 7, six round a central one) ; 

 peduncles and pedicels pubescent, the latter increasing in fruit ; bracts 

 4-6, concave, pubescent. Perianth hairy, 6- or occasionally in the female 

 7-8-divided. Stamens 12; filaments glabrous ; glands stipitate. Style 

 sublobate. Fruit | in. long, ellipsoid, when young green speckled with 

 white, when ripe dark-purple, supported on the cup-shaped perianth- 

 tube. Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 285 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. 

 V. 12 (1899) p. 3G7. — Flowers : Sept.-Oct. Tetranthera lanceafolia, 

 Grab. Cat. p. 174, cited in Fl. B. I. 1. c. as a synonym for this, is most 

 certainly Actinodaphne Hool-eri with red (not purple) fruit and which is 

 " next to the Jamhool the commonest tree at Mahableshwar." 



KoNKAN : Law ! Deccan : Mahableshwar, not common, Cooke !, Gibson !, H. M. 

 Birdwood, Woodrow. Kanaka: Stocks \; Ch^nAv/ar, liifchie, 1316!; common on the 

 Ghats from Ainshi southwards, Talbot. — 'DisiRia. India (W. Peninsula j, apparently 

 endemic. 



4. Litsea Wightiana, Bentli. 6,- Booh. /. Gen. PI. v. 3 (1880) 

 p. 162. A large tree ; brauchlets, petioles, underside of leaves, and in- 

 florescence clothed with dense rust-colored tomentum. Leaves very 

 variable in size and breadth, coriaceous, alternate, pennineiwed, 3-7 by 

 1|-2| in., elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, obtuse, acute or acuminate, 

 glabrous and light-green above, usually brownish or purplish beneath, 

 base acute ; main nerves 8-15 pairs, impressed above, prominent be- 

 neath ; petioles g-| in. long, stout. Flowers in suberect or spi'eading 

 racemes 1-4 in. long ; rhachis stout ; pedicels \-^ in. long, stout ; 

 bracts 4, coriaceous. Perianth-tube turbinate, silky-tomentose ; seg- 

 ments silky-tomentose. Stamens 12 ; filaments hairy. Stigma discoid. 

 Fruit I in. long, ellipsoid, the base enclosed in the cup-shaped more or 

 less lobed perianth. Fl. B. 1. v. 5, p. 177 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, 

 p. 285; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 367. Cyclico- 

 dapline Wightiana, Nees, in AVall. Pi. As. Ear. v. 2, p. 68 & v. 3, p. 31 ; 

 Dalz. & Gibs. p. 222 ; Wight, Icon. t. 1833. Tetranthera Wightiana, 

 Wall. Cat. 2557 ; Bedd. Flor. Sylvat. t. 293.— Flowers : Aug.-Nov. 



Deccan : Mahableshwar, below Bombay Point, Symonds ex H. M. Birdwood, 

 Kanaka: Southern Ghats of N. Kanara in evergreen forests, common in the forests 

 near the Falls of Gairsoppa, Talbot. — Disteib. India (W. Peuiusula), appai-ently 

 endemic. 



5. Iiitsea zeylanica, Nees, Cinnamom. Dlsput. (1823) p. 58. A 

 small or moderate-sized tree; bark thin, smooth, grey; branchlets 

 slender. Jjeaves numerous, crowded towards the ends of the branches, 

 2|-6 by 1|-2| in., elliptic-lanceohite, thinly coriaceous, obtusely or 

 acutely acuminate, finely reticulately veined and more or less glaucous 

 beneath, 3-nerved from a little above the acute base ; petioles |-1 in. 

 long. Flowers in small, sessile, clustered, 4-5-flowered umbels ; bracts 

 silky. Perianth hairy ; tube i-ather long ; segments 4, acute, deciduous. 

 Friiit either oblong-ellipsoid apiculate, 4 in. long, or globose not apiculate, 

 4 in. in diam., darl\-puri)le when I'ipe {Trimcn), seated on the disciform 

 ])erianth-tube. Fl. J3. 1. v. 5, p. 178 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 223 ; Wight, 



