Alseodaplme.'] cxxvni. LAURINEJE. (J. D'. Hooker.) 147 



DOTJBTFtJL SPECIES. 



A? LUCID A, Nees in Wall. PI. As. Ear. ii. 72, and Syst. Laurin. 186; branches stout 

 lenticellate, leaves 8-12 in. scattered very coriaceous obovate-oblong acuminate base 

 obtuse shining above paler beneath, nerves 16-20 pair spreading slender, midrib pro- 

 minent above, reticulations beneath very faint, petiole 1-1^ in. terete thickened and 

 rugose at the base. Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xr. 1. 29. Laurus ? ? lucida, Wall. Cat. 

 2590. Singapore, Wallich. Probably not a Laurineous plant. 



11. ACTXNQDAPHNE, Nees. 



Evergreen shrubs or trees. Leaves subverticillate, rarely scattered or 

 opposite penni- or triple-nerved. Flowers small' dioecious, in axillary or 

 lateral dense bracteate sessile or pednncled umbels or clusters ; bracts 

 imbricating, caducous (not whorled as in Litscea). Periantk-tube short, seg- 

 ments 6, subequal, rarely persistent. Perfect stamens 6-9, filaments of the 

 1st and 2nd series eglandular, of the 3rd 2-glandular ; anthers all introrse 

 and 4-locellafce ; staminodes of fern. 9. Fruit seated on the usually enlarged 

 flat or concave perianth-tube. Species about 50, Eastern Asiatic and 

 Malayan. 



The inflorescence is abnormal in A. siJcJcimensis & leiantha. The genus is with 

 difficulty separable from LitscBa. 



* Leaves more or less whorled, penninerved, or if triple-nerved with the- 

 lower pair of nerves very short (sometimes triple-nerved in A. molochina: 

 fy Hookeri}, 



f Female fl. in sessile or subsessile clusters or umbels. (In A. madras- 

 patana- and occasionally in a few others the clusters or umbels are pedun- 

 cled.) (This is an artificial subdivision, but I ca,n suggest no better, 

 except perhaps into glabrous and villous styles, if enough were known of 

 these.) 



a. Species of Northern India and the Eastern Peninsula. 



1. A. reticulata, Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 212; leaves 5-7 in. 

 whorled penninerved coriaceous linear- or elliptic-lanceolate acuminate young 

 softly pubescent beneath not glaucous, nerves 12-15 pair very slender, 

 flowers clustered, fruit broadly ellipsoid seated on the cupular quite entire 

 long-pedicelled perianth-tube. 



KHASIA MTS. ; alt. 4-5000 ft., J. D. H. .$ T.T., Clarice. 



A small tree; branches not robust, brauchlets when young softly tomentose. 

 Leaves in whorls of 4-8, 1-1 5 in. diam., greenish and almost shining above, very finely 

 impressed-reticulate on both surfaces, paler beneath, nerves very faint ; petiole in. 

 Floivers \ in. diam., pedicels as long, both silky ; bud-scales nearly glabrous. Fila- 

 ments glabrous. Fruit | in. long, rather longer than broad; black, pedicel f in., cup 

 J in. diam. To a specimen of this in the Hookerian Herbarium, received from Sir 

 J. Smith about 1821, and no doubt sent by Wallich or Hamilton, the habitat, "Nepal? 

 Wallich," was subsequently added by myself, because Smith gave it along with many 

 Nepal plants to Sir W. Hooker at that date. Meissner hence gave Nepal as a habitat, 

 but omitted the query ; his var. glabra is the same plant with old and therefore glabrous 

 branches. 



2. A. sikkimensis, Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 213; leaves 

 whorled penninerved 3-6 in. membranous lanceolate caudate-acuminate 

 glabrous glaucous or not beneath, nerves 10-12 pair very slender, female 



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