152 cxxvni. LAURIXEJB. (J. D: Hooker.) [Actinodapkne. 



penninerved 1-2 feet very coriaceous oblanceolate or oblong-obovate sub- 

 acute shining above rusty-tomentose beneath, nerves 15-20 pair very 

 strong beneath with strong parallel transverse venules, fern. fl. solitary and 

 umbellate on short peduncles in the same cluster, fruit globose on a broad 

 flat 6-lobed perianth. 



MALACCA,. Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1275 and 1258, sesquipedalis'). 



Habit of A. sesquipedalis; leaves as large and of the same shape and texture, 

 but tomentose beneath and barred between the nerves with strong parallel venules ; 

 the fruiting calyx is much smaller and less coriaceous and thick, the perianth-lobes 

 persistent, and the globose black fruit is only in. diarn. 



17. A. pruinosa, Nees in Wall. PL As. Bar. ii. 68, iii. 31, and Syst. 

 Laurin. 591 ; branches slender, leaves whorled penninerved 3-5 in. coria- 

 ceous lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate or oblanceolate caudate-acuminate 

 smooth and shining above glaucous beneath, nerves 8-10 pair very slender, 

 fern. fl. very small in peduncled umbels or clusters, fruit seated on the 

 cupular-turbinate perianth-tube. Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 216. Laurus 

 pruinosa, Wall. Cat. 2584. 



PENANG, SINGAPORE and MALACCA, Wallich, Maingay. 



Branches rather slender, braiichlets densely rusty -tomeutose. Leaves 4-6 in a 

 whorl, dark brown glossy and quite smooth above with the nerves obscure beneath, 

 not reticulate, midrib red on both surfaces, finely pubescent beneath when young, 

 glabrous in age ; petiole ^- in., slender. Flotvers in. diam., silky, shortly pedi- 

 celled. Style slender, glabrous. Fruiting perianth | in. diam., lobes deciduous; fruit 

 not seen. 



18. A. ang-ustifolia, Nees in Wall. PL As. Ear. iii. 31, and 

 Laurin. 594 (excl. syn. Blume) ; branches robust, leaves whorled penni- 

 nerved 4-12 in. lanceolate oblanceolate or elliptic obtusely acuminate 

 shining above young tomentose beneath, nerves 6-10 pair strong beneath 

 very oblique, fern. fl. in peduncled umbels, fruit globose on a small cup- 

 shaped entire perianth-tube. Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 214; Wight Ic. 

 t. 1841 ; Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. i. 1. 967 ; Beddvme Fl. Sylvat. t. 295, figs. 10, 

 11. PA. heterophylla, Blume Mus. Bot. t. 342 j Meissn. I. c. 214. Tetranthera 

 angustifolia, Wall. Cat. 2559. T. caduca, Herb. Ham. Litsasa angustifolia, 

 Kurz For. FL ii. 305. Laurus Gullawara, Herb. Ham. 



ASSAM, Hamilton, Jenkins. SILHET and KHASIA MTS., alt. 1-2000 ft., J. D. H. 

 Sf T. T., Clarke. CHITTAGONG, Clarice. PEGU and TENASSEEIM, Wallich, &c. 

 DISTBIB. Sumatra, Java. 



A tree, branches rather robust, young softly tomentose. Leaves 4-6 in a whorl, 

 very variable in length and breadth, glossy with slender raised nerves above, beneath 

 glaucous or not, quite veinless between the strong nerves, villous when young ; petiole 

 ^- in. Clusters silkily villous ; flowers ^ in. diam. Style villous. Fruit\ in. diam. 

 or less, cup <t in. diam., pedicel about as long. Judging from the leaf only, A. tnacrop- 

 tera, Miquel, of Sumatra, is this. It a good deal resembles A. HooJceri. 



19. A. hirsuta, Hook. f. ; branchlets petioles and leaves beneath 

 hirsute and brown- tomentose, leaves whorled penninerved 4-6 in. thinly 

 coriaceous elliptic-lanceolate acuminate smooth and shining above, nerves 

 8-10 pair very slender, fern. fl. long-pedicelled umbellate or subracemose on 

 a hirsute peduncle, fruit (young) seated on the cup-shaped quite entire 

 perianth-tube. 



MALABAE ; at Quillon, Wight. 



Apparently a very distinct species, in young fruit only, allied to A. lanata of the 

 Nilghiris, but with broader (l|-2 in.) leaves densely tomentose beneath, and hirsute 

 branches petioles and nerves beneath j the flowers too are long-pedicelled and umbel- 



