50 LAURACEH. ——s[ Macunvs. 
2. MACHILUS, Nees; FI. Brit. Ind. v, 136. 
Evergreen trees. Leaves alternate, usually crowded at the ends 
of the branchlets, penninerved. Flowers small, 2-sexual, in axillary 
panicles. Perianth-tube short or obsolete ; lobes persistent, spread- 
ing or reflexed in fruit. Stamens 9, perfect, filaments of the Ist and 
2nd rows eglandular and with introrse 4-celled anthers ; of the 3rd 
row with 2 stipitate glands at the base and with extrorse 4-celled 
anthers ; those of the 4th’row replaced by stipitate cordate stami- 
nodes. Ovary sessile, narrowed into the style; stigma discoid. 
Fruit a globose or oblong berry seated on the persistent perianth.— 
Species about 20, in E. Asia. 
Leaves up to 6 in. long, somewhat glaucous beneath, 
main lateral nerves 8-12 pairs ; perianth villous 
within ; drupe globose, 4-3 in. in diam 4 . 1. M. Gamblei. 
Leaves up to 10 in. long, distinctly glaucous beneath, 
main lateral nerves 12-18 pairs ; perianth silky- 
tomentose outside; drupe globose, 3-14 in. in 
diam. . : - : : ‘ . . 2. M. Duthiet. 
1. M. Gamblei, King. in F. B. I. v, 138 and 860; Kanjilal 
For. Fl. ed. 2, 327; Gamble Man. 566; Brandis Ind. Trees 
§31.—Vern. Kadwala. 
A small or moderate-sized tree with dark grey bark ; shoots and young 
leaves beneath finely silky. Leaves 3-6 in. long, elliptic-lanceolate to 
obovate, acute or acuminate, entire, thinly coriaceous, impressed- 
punctate on both surfaces, glaucous and glabrous beneath when 
mature, main lateral nerves 8-12 pairs, slender ; petioles 4 in., slender. 
Panicles lax, few-flowered. Sepals linear-oblong, villous within. 
Drupe globose, 4-} in. in diam., black when ripe. 4 
Dehra Dun, in shady and swampy localities, fairly common (Kanjilal). 
Flowers in March and April. DisTRIB. : Outer ranges of Himalaya 
eastwards to Bhutan and the Dupbla Hills at from 2—4,000 ft., alse 
in the Assam Valley. be | 
2, M. Duthiei, King in F. B. I. v, 861; Kanjilal For. Fl. (ed 
2), 327 ; Gamble Man. 567 ; Duthie in Ann. R. Bot. Gard. Calc. ix, 
part 1, 67, t. 83 ; Collett Fl. Siml. 431, fig. 138 ; Brandis Ind. Trees 
531.—Vern. Kdwalat bhadrao (Garhwal), bhojo (Jaunsar). 
