140 cxxviii. LAURINE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) \_Machilus. 



panicles, of which there are flowering specimens from Kumaon (if. odoratissimus 

 and Ocotea ligustrina^ Herb. Strach. and Winterb.) accompanied by specimens with 

 oblong fruit. Furthermore, glabrous panicles with oblong fruit occur in Sikkirn and 

 ? Singapore, and oblong fruit in Bhotau. Of M. rimosa, lilume, little is known ; Kurz 

 describes it as differing from M. odoratissimus in the smaller flower. The Moulmein 

 plant referred to rimosa by Meissner has small flowers, but the specimen is too small 

 to judge of its identity. Wallich's Singapore locality 1 suspect to be erroneous. 



11. AX. villosa, HooTc.f.; shoots and panicles densely softly ashy or 

 rufous-tomentose, leaves 3-5 in. coriaceous elliptic or elliptic- or linear- 

 lanceolate or oblanceolate obtuse acute or acuminate, pale above brownish 

 beneath, nerves 6-8 pair, panicles subterminal fascicled usually longer than 

 the leaves, branches spreading, flowers densely tomentose, fruit globose. 

 Ocotia glaucescens, Nees in Wall. PL As. Rar. ii. 71, and iii. 32. Phoebe 

 glaucescens, Nees Syst. Laurin. 100 and 671 ; Meis&n. in DC. Prodr.'xv. 1. 

 36. P. villosa, Wight Ic. t. 1822 ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 290. Laurus glau- 

 cescens, Roxb. ex "Wall. Cat. 2592 (not of FL Ind.). L. floribunda, Wall. 

 Cat. 2593 B. L. villosa, Roxl. Fl. Ind. ii. 310. (L. villosa & glaucescens, 

 Ic. Eoxl.} 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA; alt. 7000 ft., Gamble.' UPPER ASSAM; Nuku Hills, 

 Simons, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 4261); Patkoye Hills, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 4259). 

 SILHET, Wallich. CACHAB, Keenan. CHITTAGOKG, Roxburgh, J. D. H. # T. T, 



A large tree ; branchlets dark brown. Leaves very pale, rather shining above, 

 base very acute i nerves strong beneath; petiole - in. Panicles sometimes exces- 

 sively numerous and umbellate, almost terminating the branches, the minute villous 

 terminal bud not lengthening; peduncle stout, branches spreading; flowers sub- 

 corymbose, shortly pedieelled. Perianth hemispheric, densely tomentose ; lobes short, 

 broad, rounded. Filaments and anthers short, glabrous. Berry globose, ^ in. diam., 

 seated on the reflexed calyx. Specimens collected in fruit by Keenan, together with 

 Roxburgh's excellent drawings (it is unquestionably his L. villosa), prove this to be a 

 Machilus. Much confusion has attended its history from Roxburgh having figured 

 it under two names {glaucescens and villosa), and by his having further, as pointed 

 out by Wight, described two plants under the name of glaucescens. Of these names 

 Wallich took glaucescens for his No. 2592, which is that which Roxburgh described 

 as villosa. Roxburgh's other plant described under L. villosus, with alternate triple- 

 nerved leaves and flowers iii lateral panicles, is no doubt an Actinodaphne. 



12. IK. fruticosa, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc, Seng. 1873, ii. 101, and 

 For. Fl. ii. 292 ; glabrous except the hoary panicles, leaves 4-6 in. thickly 

 coriaceous oblong or linear- or elliptic-oblong obtuse or obtusely acuminate 

 dark brown above glaucously brown beneath, nerves faint beneath, panicles 

 axillary long-peduncled, flowers very small corymbose, fruit small globose. 



TENASSEEIM; at Mergui, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 4262), Heifer (Kew Distrib. 

 4268) ; Martaban, alt. 4000 ft., Erandis. 



Branches stout, black. Leaves rounded or acute at both ends, often shining above, 

 margin sometimes recurved ; nerves 10-12 pair; petiole \ in. Panicles 3-8 in. long, 

 stitf, black when dry, branches spreading; flowers about ^ in. diam., hoary; pedicels 

 about twice as long. Perianth subglobose ; lobes rounded, obtuse, noary. Filaments 

 glabrous, except at the base ; anthers oblong. Fruit " the size of a pea, on a long 

 thickened pedicel," Kurz. 1 have seen no fruit. 



13. M. macrantha, Nees in Wall. PL As. Ear. ii. 70, and iii. 31, 

 and Syst. Laurin. 174; leaves long-petioled glabrous from oblong rounded 

 at both ends to elliptic-lanceolate and acute at both ends rarely obovate 

 bluish and glaucous beneath, panicles in subterminal corymbs longer or 

 shorter than the leaves much branched more or less hoary-pubescent, 

 perianth tomentose, filaments villous, fruit globose. Meissn. in DC. Prodr. 



