148 cxxvm. LAURINEJJ. (J. D. Hooker.) [Actinodaplme. 



flowers clustered subsessile or pedicelled, fruit oblong seated on the very 

 small quite entire base of the perianth. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 3-6000 ft., J, D. H., Clarke, King. DISTRIB. Munnipore. 



Branches very slender, filaments glabrous ; branchlets and young leaves beneath 

 puberulous. Leaves in whorls of 4-6, very thin, greenish and almost shining above, 

 paler beneath, not impressed-reticulate ; petiole i- ^ in., slender. Flowers very small, 

 subsessile, each 2-4-bracteate independently of the bracts surrounding the whole 

 cluster. Filaments and style glabrous. Fruit f in. long, top rounded, pedicel about 

 as long. The inflorescence is very anomalous. 



3. A. concolor, Nees in WalL PL As. Rar. iii. 31, and Syst. Laurin. 

 593 ; leaves whorled penninerved 5-7 in. thinly coriaceous elliptic or sub- 

 cuneate-obovate acuminate base elongate shining above glaucous beneath, 

 nerves 5-8 pair deeply impressed above, flowers subsessile in very small 

 clusters. Wall. Cat. 6346 ; Kurz For. Fl. iL 304. 



TENASSEEIM ; at Tavoy, Gomez. 



Branches rather slender, young finely rusty-pubescent ; scales of leaf- buds clothed 

 with long rufous silky hairs. Leaves in whorls of 3, usually broadest above the 

 middle, base much produced, quite smooth and not reticulate above, young obscurely 

 pubescent beneath ; petiole ^ in. Clusters of flowers ^-\ in. diam. ; flower-buds silkily 

 tomentose, very shortly pedicelled. Described from Wallich's type specimen, which 

 has buds only; it answers to Meissner's ft. fagifolia, but it is clear that his concolor 

 and its variety are only large and small leaves of the same plant. 



4. A. malaccensis, Hook. f. ; branchlets leaves beneath and 

 petioles brown-tomentose, leaves whorled penninerved 4-8 in. coriaceous 

 'elliptic -oblong obtuse or subacute polished above, nerves 10-12 pairs strong 

 beneath, female fl. in dense globose clusters very shortly pedicelled or sub- 

 sessile, fruit globose seated on the very small cup-shaped thickened perianth- 

 tube. 



MALACCA, Maingay. 



Branches rather stout, densely tomentose. Leaves dark brown when dry, l|-3 in. 

 diam., smooth above, at length glabrous beneath, base acute or subacute ; petiole 

 stout, ^ | in. Clusters of female fl. globose, \ in. diam. ; pedicels f in. long. Perianth 

 turbinate, ^ in. diam., tube villous within, lobes short, rounded, glabrous. Style 

 slender, glabrous -, stigma lobulate. Fruit % in. diam. ; cup in. diam. ; pedicel very 

 short and thick. 



b. Species of the Deccan Peninsula. 



5. A. salicina, Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 212 ; leaves whorled 

 penninerved coriaceous 4-6 in. linear-lanceolate subcaudate-acuminate 

 glaucous beneath glabrous, nerves 10-12 pair very slender, fruit globose 

 seated on the enlarged 6-lobed perianth-tube. 



NILG-HIBI HILLS, Wight, Gardner. 



Branches slender, branchlets densely rusty -tomentose. Le aves 4-8 in a whorl, 

 ^-| in. broad, flat, hardly shining above ; petiole |-| in. Flowers not seen. Fruit 

 \ in. diam. ; pedicel as long. Very near A. stenophylla of Ceylon in habit, but very 

 different in the fruiting calyx. The supposed Ceylon specimens mentioned by 

 Meissner are not so ; they have no collector's name nor locality, and are no doubt 

 Peninsular. I have not seen var. dbbremata, which appears to be founded on a shorter 

 leaved specimen. 



6. A. caxnpanulata, Hook. f. ; glabrous except the tomentose sub- 

 silky inflorescence, leaves whorled penninerved 2-3 in. thinly coriaceous 

 elliptic obtuse base acute green, on -both surfaces or subglaucous beneath, 



