120 oxxvui. LAURINE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Crypfocaryct. 



f in. diam. King notes this as either ccesia or a new species ; it agrees with Blume's 

 character of ccesia except in that the midrib beneath is almost quite glabrous. The 

 fruit of the Javaii plant being unknown, the identification is not sure. A similar 

 plant, but with shorter petioles, more nerves and more pubescent flowers, occurs in 

 Celebes. Meissner regards the Javan ccesia as perhaps a var. offerrea, from which the 

 Indian plant seems to be very distinct. 



11. C. ? Anderson!, Xing in Herb. Hort. Sot. Calc. ; very robust, 

 leaves 8-12 in. long-petioled glabrous elliptic acute at both ends thickly 

 coriaceous finely reticulated above red-brown' beneath with 10 pairs of very 



' oblique stout nerves and transverse nervules, panicle very large stout corym- 

 bose and much branched hoary-pubescent, flowers minute. 



ASSAM, Jenkins in Serb. Hort. Calc. 



I have seen only a leaf, a portion of a panicle and a drawing [(lent by Dr. 

 King) of this remarkable plant, which resembles no other of the Order in foliage or 

 flowers. The panicle is 8 in. long, and must have been as broad at the top, the 

 peduncle is as thick below as a goose-quill, black and shrunken when dry (as if soft 

 when fresb) ; it branches repeatedly corymbosely from low down, the ultimate divisions 

 flowering at the tips ; the flowers are about -^ in. diam., on pedicels of the same 

 length ; perianth-segments oblong, obtuse ; stamens short, glabrous ; ovary ovoid, 

 style short, stigma discoid. 



B. Species of Ceylon and Western India. 



12. C. Wigrhtiana, Thwaites Enum. 254 ; branchlets and inflorescence 

 rusty-pubescent or puberulous, leaves 4-10 in. rigidly coriaceous elliptic or 

 oblong acuminate glabrous smooth hardly shining above, glaucous white 

 and glabrous or faintly puberulous beneath with 6-10 pair of strong arched 

 nerves, panicles spreading equalling or shorter than the leaves, fruit 

 globose. Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 70 (excl. var. 8.) ; Beddome Forest. 

 Fl. t. 299. C. floribunda, Wight Ic. t. 1829 (not of Nees) ; Dalz. & Gibs. 

 Bomb. Fl. 222. 



DECCAN PENINSULA ; from Canara southwards. CEYLON ; ascending to 5000 ft. 



A tall tree; branches rather stout, often lenticellate. Leaves variable in breadth, 

 1^-4 in., strongly reticulate beneath, base rounded or acute ; petiole -1 in.. Panicles 

 very many-fld. ; flowers pedicelled, ^ in. long. Fruit | in. diam., smooth, black, glossy. 

 Wight figures and describes the Ceylon plant as having oblong fruit, as does Meissner, 

 but Thwaites correctly states it to be globose. I have seen no fruit of Peninsular 

 specimens. Meissner's vars. parvifolia and lanceolata are not separable from 

 the type. 



13. C. Stocksii, Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 71 ; branches and 

 panicles rusty-tomentose, leaves 2J-4 in. rigidly coriaceous oblong obtuse or 

 rounded at the tip glabrous smooth above, glaucous beneath with 6-7 pair 

 of stout pubescent or glabrous nerves; panicles shorter than the leaves stout 

 dense-fld., fruit ovoid. C. neilgherriensis, Meissn. I. c. 



DECCAN PENINSULA ; Canara, Stocks, &c/; Nilghiri Hills, WigU ; Anamallay 

 Hills, Beddome. 



A large tree, very near C. Wightiana, but the leaves are much smaller, shorter- 

 petioled, and usually very obtuse ; the panicles short, contracted, and dense-fld., the 

 flowers larger, and the fiuit only ^ in. long and ovoid, not shining. 



14. C. membranacea, Thwaites Enum. 254 ; branchlets slender and 

 panicles rusty-pubescent, leaves 3-5 in. glabrous membranous elliptic-oblong 

 acute or acuminate finely reticulated on both surfaces, beneath somewhat 

 glaucous with 5-7 pair of strong nerves, panicles very small few-fld., fruit 



