126 cxxvin. LAURINE^B. (J. D. Hooker.) [Dehaasia. 



TENASSEEIM, Heifer (Keio Distrib. 4272). ANDAMAN ISLANDS, Herb.. Sort. 

 Sot. Calc. 



Very similar to D. cuneata, and perhaps a variety of that plant with longer more 

 elliptic and acuminate leaves, which in Heifer's specimens are 3-6 in. long, but in the 

 Andaman ones 6-10 in. The fruit of the Andaman plant is 2 in. long, with a stout 

 fleshy warted pedicel 1 in. long. 



3. D. elongrata, Blume in Nees Syst. Laur. 377, and in Rumphia i. 

 163, t. 47 ; characters of D. cuneata, but fruit globose on a very short pedicel. 

 Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 60 (Haasia) ; Miguel Fl 2nd. Sat. i. 929 

 (Haasia). 



ANDAMAN ISLANDS, Herb. Sort. Calc. DISTEIB. Sumatra. 



Dr. King suspects this to be a form of D. cuneata, and I think he is right ; the 

 leaves are 8-11 in. long, the flowers larger than in D. cuneata, the fruit 1-1 in. 

 diam. with a very fleshy sarcocarp and quite globose. 



4. X>. microcarpa, Blume in Nees Syst. Laurin. 373, and RumpTi. i. 

 162, t. 44; glabrous, leaves shortly petioled elliptic-oblong acuminate not 

 glaucous beneath, panicles shortly peduncled, outer perianth-lobes | smaller 

 than the inner, fruit cylindric-globose. Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 60; 

 Miguel Fl. Ind. Bat. i. 928. Laurus incrassata, Jack in Mai. Misc. ii. 7. 

 33 ? (ex Watt. Cat. 2589.) Persea incrassata, Nees Syst. 127. Machilus 

 incrassatus, Nees in Wall. PI. As. Rar. ii. 70. ? Haasia incrassata, Nees 

 Syst. Laurin. 376 ; Miguel I. c. 390. 



MALACCA, Griffith, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1274). ? Singapore, Prince. DIS- 

 TEIB. Sumatra, Java, Borneo. 



Branches woody, white. Leaves not so fascicled towards the ends of the branches 

 as in the preceding species, 9-14 by 3|-5J in., coriaceous, base acute, smooth, greenish 

 or pale greenish brown on -both surfaces when dry; nerves about 12 pair, very pro- 

 minent beneath ; petiole stout, |-1 in. Panicles 2-6 in., black when dry, branches 

 stout, spreading; pedicels obconic in flower, |- in. Perianth in. diam., nearly 

 glabrous ; lobes broad, outer obtuse, inner subacute. Stamens longer and less yillous 

 than in the preceding species. Fruit " baccate, 1 in. long, blue-black, shining, sub- 

 tended by the enlarged slightly thickened perianth, pedicel enlarged fleshy trigonous, 

 bright scarlet warted," Maingay. Though the fruit is lai-ge, I refer this to Blurne's 

 D. microcarpa, of which that author describes and figures apparently young fruit 

 only ; for after a most careful analysis I can find no difference between authentic 

 specimens of Blume's plant and this ; furthermore Blume states that both his figure 

 and description of the fruit are taken from another source. D. squarrosa, Zoll., 

 seems identical. Jack quotes Humph. Amb. i. 162, t. 44, for his L. incrassata, but 

 the plate is not characteristic, if taken for this plant. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



HAASIA NITIDA, Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 61, from Borneo, has 4-celled 

 anthers and is an Alseodaphne. 



HAASIA PEDUNCULAEIS, Nees, Meissn. I. c. See Alseodaphne peduncularis. 



5. ENDIANDRA, Brown. 



^ Evergreen trees. Leaves alternate, penninerved. Flowers small, in 

 axillary panicles. Perianth-tube very short;' segments 6, in 2 series. 

 Perfect stamens 3, all of the 3rd order, extrorsely 2-locular, filaments 2- 

 glandular or not ; staminodes 0, or 3 minute, or replaced by a fleshy ring. 

 Berry oblong or subglobose, pedicel hardly thickened; perianth usually 

 wholly deciduous. Species about 15, Indian, Malayan, Australian and 

 Pacific. 



1. E. fir ma, Nees in Wall. PI. As. Bar. ii. 68, and Syst. Laurin. 195 ; 



