cxxvm. LAURINE^E. (J. D, Hooker.) 117 



* Anthers ^-celled. 



Flowers dioecious, enclosed in densely imbricating bracts . . 11. ACTINODAPHNE. 



Flowers dioecious, umbelled, umbels involucrate 12. LITSEA. 



Flowers 2-sexual, solitary or panicled, enclosed in imbricating 



bracts 13. DODECADENIA. 



** Anthers 2-celled. 

 Flowers umbelled, umbels involucrate . . 14. LIKDEEA. 



TRIBE III. Cassytheae. Twining leafless herbs or shrubs. Flowers 

 of PerseacecB. 



15. CASSYTHA. 



TRIBE IV. Kernandieee. Trees. Anther-valves opening laterally. 



16. HEBNANDIA, 

 1. CRYPTOCARYA, Brown. 



Evergreen trees or shrubs. Leaves rarely subopposite, 3- or penni- 

 nerved. Flowers small, 2-sexual, in axillary and subterminal panicles. 

 Perianth ovoid or turbinate ; lobes 6, subequal. Perfect stamens 9, those 

 of the 1st and 2nd series eglandular, anthers introrsely 2-celled; of the 3rd 

 series 2-glandular, anthers extrorsely 2-celled ; staminodes of |4th series 

 stipitate. Fruit wholly included in and often adnate to the oblong or 

 globose perianth- tube. Species about 40, tropical and subtropical. 



A. Species of North-Eastern India and the Malay Peninsula. 



* Adult leaves tomentose or pubescent, at least on the nerves and midrib 

 beneath. 



1. C. G-riffithiana, Wight Ic. 1. 1830 ; branchlets inflorescence and 

 leaves beneath densely rusty-villous, leaves 8-12 in. very coriaceous oblong 

 caudate-acuminate shining above glaucous beneath, nerves very strong, 

 panicles short and shortly ped uncled, flowers subsessile crowded mixed with 

 long bracts, fruit globosely flask-shaped. Kurz For. Fl. ii. 295. C. infec- 

 toria & caudata, Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 68. 



TENASSEBIM (South), Kurz. MALACCA, Griffith, Maingay. 



A small evergreen tree ; branchlets stout. Leaves 2-4 in. broad, rarely rounded- 

 ovate, margin usually recurved ; nerves 8-10 pair, sunk above ; midrib rusty-pubescent, 

 tip sometimes 1 in. long ; petiole ^ in., very stout. Panicles 1-2 in., oblong. Flowers 

 about in. diam., perianth-tube very short. Fruit globose, narrowed into a thick 

 neck exactly like a round-bellied flask, 2-3 in. diam., smooth, black, shining, pedicel 

 and peduncle greatly enlarged. Wight was the first to publish this as Griffithiana. 

 Meissner, supposing it to be Blume's Cylicodaphne infectoria (Mus. Bot. ii. 11), has 

 adopted (from Miquel) that specific name. I have seen no authentic specimen of 

 Blume's plant, of which Meissner makes a variety C. infectoria 0. acuminata, giving 

 Borneo as the habitat ; but the Borneo plant differs from the Malaccan not only in 

 the short apex of the leaf, but in the elliptic or oblong fruit. 



2. C. impressa, Miquel Fl. Ind. Sat. i. 923; branchlets inflorescence 

 and leaves beneath densely finely rusty-tomentose, leaves 3-6 in. very 

 coriaceous elliptic or oblong shortly acuminate opaque above, nerves 4-6 

 pair very strong beneath, panicles often equalling the leaves loosely branched, 

 flowers pedicelled, bracts deciduous. C. infectoria y. opaca, Meissn. in DC. 

 Prodr. xv. 1. 69. C. venosa, Meissn. rnss. 



MALACCA, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 4277), Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1250). DISTEIB. 

 Sumatra. 



Referred by Meissner to a form of his infectoria, but abundantly distinct in the 



