14G cxxvin. LAURINE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Alseodaphne. 



rusty -pubescent, 3 outer segments much shorter, fruit 2^-3 in. long cylindric- 

 oblong, pericarp thin 5-ribbed. 



MALACCA, Maingay* 



Branchlets rather stout, glabrous. Leaves 8-12 by 3-4 in., brown on both sur- 

 faces,* narrowed above the cordate base and then dilating ; nerves raised on both 

 surfaces, very numerous in the basal portion ; petiole in., very stout. Panicles 

 2-6 in. ; peduncle and rachis rather stout and branches glabrous ; flowers T \ in diavn., 

 subglobose, bright yellow, crowded on short pedicels, rusty-pubescent. Outer perianth- 

 segments broadly ovate, inner rounded. Stamens very short, hairy, as are the stami- 

 nodes. Fruit very remarkable, slightly curved, dull red, somewhat narrowed towards 

 the base, top rounded; pericarp coriaceous, ribs very narrow. Seed cyliudric. A 

 distinct species. 



*** Perianth unknown* 



7. A. ? grandis, Nees Syst. Laurin. 183, in part glabrous, branchlets 

 very stout, leaves subverticillate large thickly coriaceous cuneately obovate 

 obtuse or subacute glaucous beneath, nerves 8-10 pair very strong beneath 

 impressed above, panicles shorter than the leaves, fruit globosely ellipsoid 

 apiculate, pedicel very short thickened. Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 28, 

 in part. Persea grandis in part, Nees in Wall. PL As. Rar. iii. 32. Laurus 

 grandis, Wall. Cat. 2594 C, D. 



TENASSERIM ; Tavoy, Gomez. BURMA, at Amherst, Wallich. 



Branchlets woody, as thick as a swan's quill, bark rough, Leaves 6-12 in., 

 greenish brown when dry, base very acute; petiole stout, i-1 in. Fruiting panicles 

 not very stout, bearing tuberous excrescences (insect nidi ?) on the rachis and under 

 the fruit, the pedicel of which is often deformed. Fruit 1 in. long, sometimes seated 

 on the diseased pedicel, which is then woody, rough and as large as a small nut ; the 

 healthy pedicels appear to be short, in. long and cylindric. 



8. A. ? costalis, Nees in Wall. PL As. Rar. ii. 72, and Syst; Laurin. 

 185 ; glabrous, leaves 12-24 in. very coriaceous oblanceolate or cuneately 

 obovate glaucous beneath, top rounded or subacute, nerves 12-20 pairs very 

 strong beneath. Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 29. Laurus grandis, Wall. 

 Cat. 2594 B. 



SINGAPORE, WallicTi. DISTRIB. Burma; Nammarsa, Griffith (Actinodaphne, 

 Kew Distrib. 4326). 



' Leaves pale, 5-8 in. diam., opaque, when dry midrib flat above, nerves hardly im- 

 mersed, base very narrow ; petiole stout, 1-3 in. Wallich's specimens consist of leaves 

 only, Griffith's of leaves and branches ; the latter are as thick as the thumb, smooth, 

 striate with a very thick pith, and bear axillary globose flower-buds |-| in. diam., 

 clothed with orbicular silky scales. The genus is altogether doubtful. 



9. A. crassipes, SooTc. f. ; branchlets and shoots rusty-tomentose, 

 leaves coriaceous scattered long-petioled elliptic-lanceolate acuminate fal- 

 cately recurved, nerves 6-8 pair capillary, fruiting peduncles very ft ick 

 woody, fruit ^ in. ellipsoid twice as long as the very thick woody cylindric 

 pedicel. 



MALACCA, Maingay. 



Branches stout, woody, smooth, bark ashy. Leaves 4-5 by 1-1J in., very pale, 

 nerves excessively slender and very laxly reticulate on both surfaces, base very acute; 

 petiole slender, -1 in. Fruiting peduncles numerous, 3-4 in., very strict, often 

 thickened upwards, as rigid and woody as the branches and thicker at the top than the 

 pedicel is broad ; pedicels \- in. long, cylindric, black, confluent with the thickened 

 ends of the panicle. Fruit smooth, "dark blue-black, pruinose, globose, pedicel red," 

 Maingay. 



