Endiandra.} CXXVHI. LAURINE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) 127 



glabrous, leaves 5-8 in. elliptic-oblong obtusely acuminate coriaceous base 

 acute concolorous and finely reticulate on both surfaces, nerves distinct, 

 panicles lax-fid, much shorter than the leaves. Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 

 1. 79. Laurus firma, Wall. Cat. 2597. 



SILHET, De Silva. CACHAB, Keenan. 



Branches terete, woody ; terminal buds small, puberulous. Leaves when dry red- 

 brown on both surfaces ; nerves 10-11 pair, sunk above, 'prominent beneath, very 

 obliquely arched ; petiole | in., stout. Panicle 1-2 in., obscurely puberulous, black 

 when dry ; branches spreading ; flowers pedicelled, minutely bracteolate. Perianth 

 campanulate, in. diam. ; segments broadly ovate, obtuse, glabrous externally, three 

 inner smaller, tomentose within, as is a triangular space at the base of the outer and 

 the base of the perianth within. Anthers 3, sessile, subsagittately oblong, obtuse, 

 thick, tomentose, with linear-oblong obtuse sublateral cells and oblong valves. Fruit 

 (in Cachar specimen) 1^ in. long, elliptic-ovoid, quite smooth, tip rounded. Nees 

 describes the leaves as sometimes opposite, and the fruit as oblong, 2 by in., seated 

 on the small orbicular base of the perianth ; but Wallich's specimens, the only 

 ones known to Nees, are in flower only (having no fruit), and all the leaves are 

 alternate. 



2. E. IKEaingrayi, Hook.f.; leaves 3-4 in. coriaceous elliptic or elliptic- 

 oblong obtusely subcaudate acuminate, minutely reticulated, nerves very 

 obscure, racemes very short glabrous few-fid., perianth unequally 6-cleft, 

 fruit l|-2 in. oblong. 



MALACCA, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1270). 



Branches rather slender. Leaves l-2 in. diam., firmly coriaceous, red-brown, 

 shining and finely reticulated on both surfaces; nerves 8-10 pair, very slender and 

 faintly raised on both surfaces, base acute ; petiole 3 | in. JZacemes \ in. long or 

 less, hoary ; buds globose, f- in. diam. Sepals very coriaceous, concave. Stamens 

 sessile, almost in the centre of the flower. Ovary sunk in the very short perianth- 

 tube ; style short, stigma minute. Fruit solitary, axillary, peduncles (or pedicels) 

 not | in. long. 



6. SYNDICLIS, Hook.f. 



A glabrous tree. Leaves alternate, penninerved. Flowers minute, 

 panicled, bisexual, gland-dotted. Perianth 4-partite, wholly deciduous ; 

 segments transversely oblong, 2-seriate, the two inner rather smaller. 

 Perfect stamens 4, opposite to and as long as the perianth-lobes, broadly 

 ovate, thick, pubescent and gland-dotted, 1-celled; cell small, opening 

 introrsely by a single valve ; staminodes 4, minute, lanceolate, hirsute. 

 Ovary glabrous, tapering into an acute style. 



S. paradoxa, Hook.f.'Ic. Plant. 1. 1515. 



BHOTAN, Sooth. 



Branch-lets slender, leafy at the tips, the very young obscurely pubescent or hoary. 

 Leaves petioled, 3-5 by 2-2^ in., rather membranous, obovate-oblong, acuminate, 

 with 10-12 pairs of slender nerves, drying pale brown, conspicuously reticulated with 

 raised nervules on both surfaces ; base acute ; petiole f in., slender. Panicles shorter 

 than the leaves, axillary, slender, with spreading few-flowered branches ; flowert- 

 ^j in. diam.; pedicels long, thickened under the flower. Perianth-segments short, 

 broader than long, subreniform, early falling away in one piece. Stamens (apparently 

 sessile anthers) very large for the size of the flower, pubescent all over except the 

 valve, hollowed in front with the small cell towards the lip in front ; valve emarginate 

 (as if of 2 confluent valves), finally recurved over the top of the anther ; staminodes, I 

 think, alternate with the anthers. An exceedingly curious plant, the only one of the 

 Order with 1-celled anthers; it was in a collection of plants made in Bhotan 

 by Mr. Booth, nephew of the late Thomas Nuttall, who gave the collection to Sir 

 W. Hooker. 



