54 LAURACEA. { LitsEa. 
A small or medium-sized evergeen tree, very variable in habit foliage and 
inflorescence. Bark dark-grey, cork-like, with an inner viscid layer. 
Young parts inflorescence and underside of leaves more or less pubes- 
cent or tomentose. Leaves thinly coriaceous, 5-9 in. long, ovate 
oblong or elliptic-lanceolate, acute obtuse or rounded at the apex, 
glabrous or pubsecent on the upper surface, grey-pubescent beneath 
and usually glabrescent when mature ; main lateral nerves 8-12 pairs, 
and with fine reticulations between ; petioles 4-14 in. long. Flowers 
globose, white or yellowish, 4 in. in diam. before expansion, arranged 
in axillary peduncled corymbose or racemose umbels ; bracts 4, tomen- 
tose. Perianth very irregular, the segments often wanting, tube long 
andsilky. Stamens 9 to 20 or more ; filaments villous. Fruit globose, 
1 in. in diam., supported by the slightly enlarged perianth-tube. 
Fairly common in the forests of Dehra Dun and Saharanpur, espe- 
cially in shady ravines ; also in the Sub-Himalayan districts of Rohil- 
khand, N. Oudh and Gorakhpur. It flowers in the rains and the fruit 
ripens during the cold season. DISTRIB. : Throughout the hotter parts 
of India and in Ceylon, extending to the Malay Islands, China and 
Australia. The wood of this tree, as described by Gamble, is greyish- 
brown or olive-grey, moderately hard and durable, and it is not attack- 
ed by insects. ‘The granular and viscid inner bark (meda-lakri) is said 
to be good for sprains and bruises. 
2. L. polyantha, Juss. in Ann. Mus. Par. vi, 211; F. B. I. v, 
162; Watt E. D.; Kanjilal For. Fl. (ed. 2), 330 ; Gamble Man 
$71; Collett Fl. Siml. 433 ; Prain Beng. Pl. 903 ; Brandis Ind. 
Trees 536. Tetranthera monopetala, Roxb. Fl. Ind. wi, 821; 
Brand. For. Fl. 380; t. 45.—Vern. Maida, katmarra (Hind.), 
karkawa, karka ( Dehra Dun). 
A moderate-sized evergreen tree, the young parts inflorescence and 
underside of leaves rusty-tomentose. Bark dark-grey, finally ex- 
foliating in corky-scales. Leaves alternate, very variable, 4-8 in. long 
or more, elliptic-cblong ovate or obovate, tip usually rounded or 
retuse, glabrous above, rusty-tomentose and strongly reticulate- 
veined beneath ; main lateral nerves 5-10 pairs, base rounded or 
cordate, petiole 4-1 in. long. U*mbels 5-6-flawered, densely tomen- 
)tose, pedicels stout, bracts 4-5. Perianth white, 6- or 5-partite. 
Stamens 9-13, filaments hairy. Fruit ovoid, about } in. long, seated 
on the small unchanged perianth. 
Common in the forests of Dehra Dun and Saharanpur and eastwards 
to the Sub-Himalayan tracts of Rohilkhand and N. Oudh, often found 
in shady ravines and on the banks of streams. Flowers March-May, 
