142 cxxvm. LAURINEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Phccbe. 



leaves very narrowly lanceolate acuminate or caudate, perianth glabrous, 

 segments equal, fruit | in. 



KHASIA MTS., alt. 2-1000 ft., Griffith, Loll, J. D. H. Sf T. T. 

 A small shrub, perhaps only a form of P. lanceolata, but the leaves are much 

 narrower, 4r-10 by -1 in. 



3. P. declinata, Nees Syst. Laur. 114 ; quite glabrous, branches 

 b.lack when dry, leaves elliptic-lanceolate or -oblong obtuse or obtusely 

 acuminate red brown, nerves 6-8 pair very obscure beneath, perianth gla- 

 brous, segments subequal. Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 34; Miquel Fl. 

 Ind. Bat. i. 1. 906. P. ligustrina, in part, Nees Syst. 113. P. lanceolata, 

 y. ligustrina, in part, Meissn. I. c. Ocotea declinata, Blume Bijd. 572. O. 

 ligustrina, in part, Nees in Wall. PI. As. Rar. ii. 71, and iii. 32. Laurus 

 declinata, Blume Cat. Hort. Bot. Buitenz. 66. " L. ligustrina, Wall. Cat. 

 2588 A. 



SINGAPORE, Wallich. DJSTRIB. Java. 



A very distinct species, remarkable for the black shoots, brown finely reticulate 

 leaves, 4-5 by 1-1^ in., with slender black petioles and midrib beneath, and very 

 faint slender nerves. I have seen no fruit. Wallich' s 2588 B from Tavoy consists 

 of three specimens of two plants, both different from declinata, one is probably 

 P. lanceolata; two others have elliptic acute thin reticulated leaves only 2 in. long, 

 with numerous very slender spreading nerves ; these resemble no other species except 

 in the flowers, which are like those of P. lanceolata, but rather smaller. 



** Perianth silky pubescent or tomentose. 



4. P. pallida, Nees Syst. Laurin. 112 ; shoots very finely puberulons, 

 leaves elliptic-lanceolate or oblanceolate finely acuminate puberulous 

 beneath at length glabrous, nerves 8-10 pair very oblique deeply impressed 

 above strong beneath, panicles axillary long-peduncled and flowers very 

 finely pubescent. Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 34; Brandis For. Fl. 377. 

 P. glaucescens & fuscans, Meissn. I. c. 37, in part. Laurus pubescens, 

 Wall Cat. 2595 (excl. B, C). Ocotea pallida, Nees in Wall. PI. As. Ear. 

 ii. 71. 



SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA ; Kumaon, Thomson, Strachey fy Winterlottom Nepal, 

 Wallich. ? Sikkim, J.D. H. EASTERN OUDE forests, Brandis. 



Very closely allied to P. lanceolata, but the young leaves, panicles and flowers 

 are finely tomentose, and the leaf-nerves deeply sunk above. The Sikkim specimens 

 doubtfully referred here are flowerless, the leaves are much larger, 6-10 by 1|-3| in., 

 more membranous, and the nerves less deeply sunk, as might be expected in plants 

 from a moist climate ; they arc certainly not referable to Laurus glaucescens (Machi- 

 lus villosa) as Meissner supposed, and have not the rusty tomentum of P. paniculata. 

 Fruit too young for description. 



5. P. paniculata, Nees Syst. Laurin. 105 ; shoots rusty-tomentose, 

 leaves elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate rarely obovate acuminate pubescent and 

 with 8-12 pair of very strong nerves beneath, panicles axillary long- 

 peduncled and flowers pubescent or tomentose, fruit turgidly ellipsoid - in. 

 Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 37 (excl. syn. Laurus villosa and Phoebe 

 villosa} ; Brand. For. Fl. 377 (excl. syn. L. villosa) ; Wight Ic. 1. 1820. P. 

 pubescens, Nees Syst. Laur. 107 ; Kurz For. Fl. 290. P. Wightii, Meissn. 

 in DC. I. c. 38 ; Beddome Forest. FL. t. 292. Ocotea pubescens & paniculata, 

 Nees in Wall. PI. As. Rar. ii. 71, 72, and iii. 32. Laurus paniculata, Wall. 

 Cat. 2598. L. pubescens, Wall. Cat. 2595 B, C. Cinnamomum tomentosum 

 and C. Cathia, Don Prodr. 66 (fide Nees). 



CENTRAL HIMALAYA ; Nepal, Wallich. BURMA; from Chittagong and Ava to 



