Cwnamomum.] cxxvm. LAURINEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) 129 



Laur. 33; leaves quite glabrous 8-12 in. very coriaceous elliptic-oblong 

 obtuse acute or acuminate 3-nerved, nerves not impressed above, panicles 

 very large and stout subterminal and corymbiform often exceeding the 

 leaves, perianth subsilky-pubescent^ lobes persistent in fruit, stamens and 

 ovary sparsely hairy or glabrous, fruit small ellipsoid or subglobose. Meissn. 

 in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 12; Wight Ic. t. 139; Kurz For.Fl. ii. 287; G-amUe 

 Man. Ind. Timb. 305. Laurus obtusifolia, Roxb. FL Ind. ii. 302 ; Wall. 

 Cat. 2574. L. macrophylla, Wall. Cat. 2575. L. Bejolghota and L. Bazania, 

 Ham. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. 559, 560. L. Cassia, Herb. Ham. 



CENTRAL and EASTEEN HIMALAYA; Nepal, Hamilton, &c. ; Sikkim, ascending 

 to 7000 ft. ASSAM, SILHET and the KHASIA MTS., and southwards to TENASSERIM 

 and the ANDAMAN ISLANDS. 



A large robust plant, the largest leaved of the Indian species. Leaves often glau- 

 cous beneath, nervules faint or distinct ; petiole short, robust. Flowers small (| in 

 diam.), often crowded at the ends of the much-branched long-peduncled crowded 

 panicles. Fruit g J in. long, succulent ; peduncle and calyx - in. long, the latter 

 3- in. broad in fruit, lobes rounded in Sikkim specimens, narrower and more acute in 

 Silhet ones. 



3. C. impressinervium, Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 21 ; leaves 

 quite glabrous 3-5 in. elliptic-lanceolate acuminate 3-nerved, nerves deeply 

 impressed in age, panicles shorter than the leaves silkily tomentose, fruiting 

 calyx small pyriform or cupular, enclosing the small unripe fruit, lobes 

 wholly deciduous. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 4-6000 ft., Herb. Griffith, J. D. H. DISTRIB. Yunan. 



Branches slender ; buds and young shoots silky. Leaves brown when dry, 1-2 in. 

 diam., shining above, paler beneath, with faint reticulations; petiole very slender. 

 Panicles shortly peduncled, rather few-fld. Fruiting calyx and pedicels \ in. ; mouth 

 quite entire; the fruit is too young to determine its nature. 



4. C. pauciflorum, Nees in Wall. PI. As. Bar. ii. 75, and Syst. 

 Laur. 68 ; leaves quite glabrous 2-4 in. ovate or ovate-lanceolate acuminate 

 3-nerved, base acute rounded or cordate, panicles shorter than the leaves 

 few-fld. nearly glabrous, calyx-lobes wholly deciduous in fruit. Meissn. in 

 DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 17, excl.'var. /3. ; G-amble Man. Ind. Timb. 305; Wall. 

 Cat. 2579. C. recurvatum, Wight Ic. t. 133. Laurus recurvata, Roxb. FL 

 Ind. ii. 301. 



KHASIA MTS. ; alt. 4000 ft., De Silva, J. D. H. $ T. T. ASSAM VALLEY and 

 SILHET, Gamble. 



A small tree, buds and young shoots glabrous. Leaves very much smaller than in 

 the preceding species, firmly coriaceous, usually glaucous and finely reticulated be- 

 neath, rarely 5-nerved, tip sometimes caudate-acuminate. Panicles sometimes re- 

 duced to 3 flowers. Perianth ^^ in. long. Stamens hairy. Fruiting calyx very 

 small, with a quite entire mouth; fruit too young to describe. Hamilton's C. Tazia, 

 referred doubtfully to this as a variety, is clearly C. Tamala, as the specimen in Herb. 

 Wallich proves, and it was moreover found at the foot of the Sikkim Himalaya, where 

 C. pauciflorum does not occur. Roxburgh states that his L. recurvata was supposed 

 to have come from China, and if so, it may be the C. dulce of the Hong Kong Flora, 

 and possibly the same species as C. pauciflorum. Roxburgh describes his L. dulcis 

 from China as having long narrow leaves with the lateral nerves vanishing a little 

 above the middle, and must be a very different plant. The drawing of Roxburgh 

 which Wight has copied (Ic. t. 138) is unnamed in the original. Another drawing of 

 Roxburgh's named L. dulcis equally disagrees with the description in " Flora Indjca " 

 in having strong lateral nerves produced to the tip. Wallich doubtfully refers Rox- 

 burgh's L. recurvata to Daphnidium. 



b. Species qf Burma and the Malay Peninsula. (See also C. zeylanicum 

 Sf obtusifolium.) 



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