144 cxxvui. LAURINE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Alseodapline. 



enlarged after flowering, obsolete in fruit. Stamens and staminodes as in 

 Phcebe. Fruit ellipsoid, seated on the truncate end of the long or short 

 often much swollen and fleshy peduncle. Species about 15, Tropical Asiatic. 



Habit of Dehaasia, .but anthers 4-celled. The species are very imperfectly 

 known. 



* Perianth-segments subequal or the outer rather narrower. 



1. A. seme car pifolia, Nees in Wall. PL As. Ear. ii. 72, and Syst. 

 Laurin. 182 ; nearly glabrous, leaves coriaceous cuneately obovate or oblong 

 tip obtuse or rounded 6-8-nerved often glaucous beneath, panicles long- 

 peduncled branches spreading, perianth nearly glabrous segments subequal, 

 fruit ellipsoid acute equalling its swollen warted peduncle. Meissn. in 

 DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 28 ; Wall. Cat. 2586 A ; Dalz. # Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 222 ; 

 Wight Ic. t. 1826, 1827 ; Thwaites Enum. 254 ; Beddome For. Fl. t. 297. 



DECCAN PENINSULA; in dry forests from the Concan southwards. CEYLON in 

 the drier parts of the island. 



A small tree, very variable in foliage, young parts obscurely puberulous. Leaves 

 2-7 in., usually very finely reticulate above when dry and glaucous beneath, base acnte ; 

 nerves faint or strong ; petiole -1 in. Panicles about as long as the leaves or shorter ; 

 peduncle and branches slender, glabrous, black when dry ; flowers on rather long 

 pedicels, in. diam., subumbellate at the tips of the branches. Perianth-segments 

 usually subequal, but in one specimen from Herb. Stocks the outer are as short as in 

 the next section. The following seem to be forms of one species, but I am far from 

 confident about this.' 



1. A. SEMECARPIFOLIA proper ; leaves rather thinly coriaceous glaucous beneath, 

 panicles equalling the leaves, fruit \-\ in. 



Var. angustifolia,[Meissu. 1. c. ; leaves 3-5 by 1-1| in. elliptic-oblong or -lanceo- 

 late obtuse or subacute glaucous beneath, panicles as long as the leaves, fruit f in. 

 rather narrower. Ceylon and the Concan. 



Var. macrocarpa; leaves 4-7 in. elliptic-oblong subacute very glaucous beneath 

 tip rounded, fruit 1 in., peduncle much thickened. Ceylon, Thwaites (C. P. 2269). 



Var. rufa; young parts and young leaves beneath rufous-hoary, leaves broadly 

 cuneate-obovate very coriaceous red when dry tip rounded, panicles as long as the 

 leaves, fruit in. Concan, Herb. Dalzell. 



Var. parvifolia ; leaves 2-3 in. obovate very glaucous beneath tip rounded, petiole 

 very short, panicles much shorter than the leaves. Wight Ic. t. 1827. Courtallam, 

 Wight. 



2. A. peduncularis ? Hook. f. ; quite glabrous, branches slender, 

 leaves membranous elliptic-lanceolate obtusely subcaudate-acuminate, nerves 

 6-10 pair, panicles very slender few-tid. much shorter than the leaves, 

 perianth glabrous outer segments rather smaller, stamens very short. 

 Haasia peduncularis, Nees Syst. Laurin. 376 ; Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 

 61. Machilus peduncularis, Nees in Wall. PI. As. Bar. ii. 70. Persea 

 peduncularis, Nees Syst. Laurin. 125 (excl. syn. Humph.}. Laurus pedun- 

 cularis, Wall. Cat. 2596. 



PENANG-, Wallich. 



Branches with white bark, except the first year's, which are smooth and very 

 slender. Leaves 4-6 by l|-2 in., rather wavy from their thin texture, base very 

 acute; nerves beneath much raised, slender, arching and meeting far within the 

 margin; petiole ^-^ in., very slender. Panicles 1-1 in., peduncle and branches 

 filiform; flowers ^j in., pedicelled. Perianth subglobose, segments short, quite 

 glabrous without (persistent, Nees). Stamens very short, hairy ; staminodes ? Fruit 

 according to Nees immature, ovoid, in a cylindric fleshy curved pedicel two inches 

 long and as thick as a goose-quill. Wallich's specimens in the Linnaean Society have 

 neither flower nor fruit, but 1 find one or two flowers in Herb. Hook, wkich were 



