Endiandra. | CIII. LAURINEJE. 303 
veined and pubescent or villous underneath.  Panicles axillary, broadly 
thyrsoid, usually about 1 in. long, sometimes more branched and half as 
ng as the leaves, sometimes very short, more or less ferruginous-hir- 
rya Muelleri, Meissn. l.c. 
Queensland. Brisbane river, Moreton Bay, F. Mueller. 1 
.N. S. Wales. Clarence river, Beckler ; Richmond river, Henderson ; Bellinger 
river, C. Moore. 
Var. glabri ora. Perianth rather larger, glabrous. Bracts ovate, concave.—Rich- 
mond river, Henderson. 
anthers, of the inner series 3 erfect, with extrorse anthers, alternating 
with 3 short staminodi i 
nodia; an led, or th 
celled; glands 6, at the base of the inner perfect stamens. Ovary not 
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numerous with a sterile ovary. The numbers of parts of the perian 
and of the stamens liable to occasional variation, especially in the females. 
Tim Benus extends over tropical and subtropical Asia as far as Japan, the only 
Species being the same as an E. Indian one. 
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md perfect but unequally so in the flowers examined. o 
Mass) Peltate.—Miq. Rev. Cinnam. in A Lug: 68; 
:in DC. Prod, xv. i. 17 ; Laurus Tamala, Hamilt. in Trans, Linn, 
