124 cxxvin. LAURINE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Betttchrwedia. 



MALACCA, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1248). 



Branches rather stout. Leaves 7-8 by 2-3 in., usually broadest above the middle, 

 pale greyish green above, beneath pale brown, nerves oblique, 10-12 pair ; petiole 

 stout, $- in. Panicles axillary, 5 in. long, erect, narrow ; peduncle and rachis 

 rather stout, branches very short, few-fid.; flowers T ' 5 in. diam. ; pedicel short, stout. 

 Perianth cup-shaped, cleft to about the middle. Filaments pubescent, glands sessile ; 

 staminodes minute. Ovary glabrous, style minute. Fruit unknown. In the absence 

 of fruit the genus is doubtful. 



Sect. II. Leaves usually ppposite ; terminal buds enclosed in large gla- 

 brous coriaceous concave scales. Flowers about T ' in. diam., subglobose. 

 (I suspect that this section may constitute a genus.) 



10. B. oppositifolia, Benth. in Gen. PI. iii. 152 ; quite glabrous, ter- 

 minal buds lanceolate, leaves opposite lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate obtuse 

 shining and reticulate on both surfaces, panicles long-peduncled slender, 

 branches spreading, flowers minute, fruit cylindric-oblong, pedicel thickened 

 clavate. Haasia oppositifolia, Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 61 ; JBeddome 

 For. Man. 184. Apollonias zeylanica, Thwaites Enum. 253. 



CEYLON ; Central Province, alt. 3-4000 ft., Thwaites. 



A tree, 50-60 ft. ; branches rather slender, bud-scales linear-oblong concave, very 

 rigid. Leaves 5-7 by 1-2J in., thinly coriaceous, alike in colour &c. on both sur- 

 faces ; base acute ; nerves 6-8 pair, very slender and oblique ; petiole \-\ in. Panicles 

 4-6 in. long, and flowers nearly black when dry ; branches divaricate ; pedicels 2-3 

 times as long as the subglobose flower, which is about fa ^ in. diam. Perianth wholly 

 deciduous ; lobes rounded, obscurely pubescent. Stamens glabrous, glands and stami- 

 nodes sessile. Fruit 1-1| in. long, sometimes subclavate, pedicel | in. long. 



11. B. Wight!!, TSenth. in Gen. PL iii. 152 ; quite glabrous, terminal 

 buds lanceolate, leaves opposite elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate obtusely acu- 

 minate shining and reticulate on both surfaces, panicles long-peduncled 

 slender, branches spreading, flowers minute. Haasia Wightii, Nees 

 Syst. Law. 676; Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 61 ; JBeddome Forest Fl. 

 t. 298. 



SOUTH DECCAN PENINSULA? Travancore, Tinnevelly and Anamallay Hills, 

 Wight, Beddome. 



Except in the form of the leaves this seems to be IB. oppositifolia, but without 

 seeing fruit I hesitate before uniting them. 



12. B. assamica, Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 64; quite glabrous, 

 terminal buds lanceolate, leaves opposite elliptic-ovate or lanceolate obtusely 

 acuminate shining and reticulate on both surfaces, fruit 1| in. long very 

 shortly pedicelled elliptic- or ovoid-oblong tip rounded or subacute base 

 shortly contracted pericarp thick. 



ASSAM, JenJcins. DISTEIB. Burma (Griffith}, Munnipore. 



Branches rather slender, terminal compressed; buds \ in. long, scales very coria- 

 ceous, linear-oblong, quite glabrous. Leaves 5-6 in., firmly coriaceous, pale brown 

 when dry, base cuneate ; nerves about 10 pair, very slender, equally prominent on both 

 surfaces; petiole in., slender. Flowers unknown. 



^ 13. B. Cammieana, King in Herb. Hort. Calc. ; quite glabrous, ter- 

 minal buds ovoid, leaves opposite elliptic-oblong or -ovate obtusely acumi- 

 nate shining and reticulate on both surfaces, fruit | in. long shortly pedi- 

 celled globosely obovoid apiculate or mammillate. 



EAST NEPAL, on the north slope of Phulloot, alt. 6000 ft., J. D. H., and SIKKIM 

 at the same elevation, King. 



A small tree; branches stout ; terminal buds | in., scales glabrous very coriaceous. 

 Leaves 4-6 in., firmly coriaceous, variable in breadth, colour (pale brownish yellow 

 when dry) and reticulation the same on both surfaces ; base cuneate ; nerves very 



