Lrrsza.] LAURACE. 53 
Jeaf-scars, sometimes racemose or fascicled on common peduncles ; 
bracts involucrate, 4-6, rarely more in one involucre, coriaceous or 
membranous, Perianth-tube ovoid campanulate or very short; 
lobes of limb 6 or 4, equal or unequal, sometimes small or obsolete, 
Matz flowers : Stamens 9 or 12 in trimerous flowers, 6 in dimerous 
flowers, occasionally fewer than 6, rarely more than 12; filaments 
of Ist and 2nd rows usually eglandular, those of the 3rd (and 4th 
if present) 2-glandular; anthers all introrse, 4-celled. Ovary 
minute or obsolete, very rarely perfect. Frm. fils. Staminodes 9 or 
12, or in the dimerous 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 seated on the un- 
enlarged perianth, or partly clasped at the base by the often much 
enlarged discoid or cupular perianth-tube. Seed with a thin testa. 
—Species about 140, in Trop. Asia, Australia and the Pacific Islands, 
rare in Africa and America. 
Perianth-lobes incomplete or none ; leaves oblong 
or ovate-acute, lower surface sparingly pube- 
scent or closely tomentose; fruit globose, 
seated on the slightly enlarged perianth-tube 2. L. chinensis. 
Perianth-lobes complete, 6- or 5-partite :— 
Leaves elliptic or elliptic-oblong ; upper sur- 
face glabrous ; lower surface grey- or tawny- 
pubescent ; main lateral nerves 5-10 pairs ; 
fruit ovoid, on a very small perianth-tube . 2. L. polyantha. 
Leaves usually narrowly lanceolate, acute or 
acuminate, grey-hoary, rarely glabrous 
beneath ; main lateral nerves 8-15 pairs ; 
fruit on the enlarged per.-tube, ellipsoid;.3. 3. L. salicifolia, 
var. laurifolia 
1. L. chinensis, Lamk. Encycl. Method, iii, 574; Cooke Fl. 
Bomb. vi, 539 ; Gamble in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. LXXV, part. 1, 
131. JL. sebifera, Pers. Syn. ti, 4; F. B. I. v, 157; Watt E. D. ; 
Kanjilal For. Fl. (ed. 2), 329; Gamble Man. 570; Prain Beng, 
Pl. 902 ; Brandis Ind. Trees, 536. Tetranthera laurifolia, Blume ; 
{not of Roxb.) ; Brandis For. Fl. 379. T. apetala, Roxb. Fl. Ind. 
iti, 819 ; Royle Ill. 325. T. Roxburghii, Nees; Royle l. c.— 
Vern. Maida, gwa (Hind.), medh (Oudh), chandna (Dehra Dun). 
