Actinodapline.~\ cxxvin. LAURINE^}. (J. D. Hooker.) 149 



nerves 6-8 pair very slender, flowers in simple fascicles, male subglobose 

 shortly pedicelied, female campanulate shortly 6-cleft. A. salicina, Bed- 

 dome Fl. Sylv. t. 295, and Forest Man. 186 (not of Meissn.}. 



DECCAN PENINSULA ; Tinnevelly, Beddome. 



Apparently a shrub, with slender whorled glabrous branches. Leaves f-lj in. 

 diam., 4-8 in a whorl, minutely impressed-reticulate on both surfaces ; petiole ^ ^ in. 

 Flowers; male ^ in. diam., stamens nearly glabrous; female | in. long, tube silky 

 outside villous within, lobes obtuse glabrous deciduous. Style slender, glabrous ; 

 stigmas 3, lobulate, stipitate. NearM. molochinain habit, but the slender nerves and 

 female flowers are very different. I think this is undoubtedly what Beddome has 

 figured as A. salicina, referring it (For. Man.) to Wight's var. abbreviata : he 

 figures the style as hairy, stigma 4-cleft, fruiting calyx cupular with deciduous lobes, 

 and fruit 4 lines in diameter. Female flower same form as in Litscea zeylanica, Wight 

 Ic. t. 1844. 



7. A. lanata, Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1.219; branchlets and young 

 leaves densely softly rusty-tomentose, leaves whorled penninerved coriaceous 

 3-5 in. elliptic-lanceolate acuminate glaucous beneath, nerves 8-10 pair 

 very slender, flowers in sessile clusters, fruit pisiform seated on the wholly 

 persisteiit 6-lobed pewanth. 



NIL&HIRI MTS., Wight, Gardner. 



Leaves 4-8 in a whorl ; midrib and petiole rusty-tomentose, at length glabrous ; 

 petiole |-| in., rather slender. Fruit J in. diam., pedicel about as long stout. 

 Probably a broad-leaved state of A. salicina. It is not a Ceylon plant, and it is 

 erroneously placed in the section Notholitsxa in the Prodromus. 



8. A. madraspatana, Beddome in Herb.; branchlets and petioles 

 pubescent, leaves whorled penninerved 6-10 in. elliptic-lanceolate obtuse 

 glaucous beneath, nerves 8-10 pair very oblique, flowers in dense globose 

 silkily tomentose clusters, females very shortly peduncled. A. Hookeri, 

 var. longifolia, Meissn^ in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 219. A. Hookeri, Beddome 

 For. Fl. t. 296 (excl. locality of SikUm}. 



DECCAN PENINSULA ; on the Cuddepah Hills, Wight, Beddome. 



Branchlets very robust, minutely but closely tomentose. Leaves 4-8 in a whorl, 

 pale green when dry, youngest densely clothed with long golden silky hairs (as in 

 A. angustifolia); midrib and nerves strong but not stout, orange-red; nervules very 

 faint; petiole \-\ in., stout. Male fl. \ in. diam. ; lobes oblong, membranous, silkily 

 hairy without, glabrous within. Ovary 0. Fruit not seen. Beddome remarks that 

 this is the only Laurineous plant of the Cuddepah Hills (except, I suppose, Cassytha); it 

 is very near A. angustifolia, but the leaves are more obtuse, glaucous beneath, and 

 the male fl. are much larger. Meissner describes the leaves as triple-nerved, but the 

 lower pair are too short to admit of this. 



9. A. Hookeri, Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 218 (excl. var. y.} ; 

 branchlets and young leaves densely softly rusty-tomentose or villous, 

 leaves whorled penninerved (rarely subtriple-nerved) 5-8 in. coriaceous 

 ovate- or elliptic-lanceolate finely acuminate glabrous or tomentose beneath, 

 nerves 6-8 pair very slender, male fl. clustered, fern, umbelled or sub- 

 racemose on a short stout peduncle, fruit ellipsoid seated on the much- 

 thickened subcampanulate entire perianth-tube, A. angustifolia, Nees?; 

 Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. Sf T. 



The CONCAN and CANARA ; on the Ghats, StocJcs, Law, Dalzell. 



Young leaves and branches almost woolly ; buds large, silky. Leaves green when 

 dry, sometimes 3 in. diam., smooth and often polished above, hardly glaucous beneath, 

 and even when old then often rusty villous (var. dasypoda, Meissn.) ; petiole 1-1^ in., 

 always tomentese. Flowers silky ; males very shortly pedicelied, in. diam. ; fern. 



