Adinodaphne.'] cxxvm. LAURINEJS. (J. D. Hooker.) 153 



late ; the common peduncle is |- in. long, and the pedicels rather longer. Being found 

 at Quillon, this is probably a coast species. 



** Leaves in interrupted whorls, or the lower opposite, triple-nerved at 

 the base, the lateral nerves reaching beyond the middle of the leaf. 



20. A. speciosa, Nees Syst. Laurin. 602 ; branchlets stout and leaves 

 beneath densely rusty- to mentose, leaves opposite and whorled triple-nerved 

 long-petioled very thickly coriaceous orbicular rugose above, nerves 4-6 pair 

 very strong beneath with strong cross-venules, clusters globose small silkily 

 tomentose. Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 219; Wight Ic. t. 1842 ; Thwaites 

 JEnum. 257 ; Bedd. For. Fl. 187. 



CEYLON ; Central Province, ascending to 8000 ft. 



A small tree, 30-40 ft. ; branches very stout. Leaves 6-10 in. diam., 3-4 in a whorl 

 and opposite, abruptly acuminate, base rounded or subacute, shining brown above 

 with deeply impressed nerves and nervules, the former tomentose beneath almost 

 velvety with rusty-brown hairs; petiole 1-2 in., very stout. Clusters of flowers 

 f-1 in. diam. ; pedicels very short. Male perianth % in. diam. ; tube very short ; 

 lobes glabrous within ; fern, longer pedicelled. Filaments villous. Style woolly. 

 Fruit " subspherical, seated on the enlarged truncate base of the perianth," Thwaites. 



Var. j8. Candolleana, Thwaites I.e.; leaves less coriaceous more sparingly hairy ovate 

 or. oblong-lanceolate acuminate base acute. A. Candolleana, Meissn. I. c. Central 

 Province, at about 4000 ft., Thwaites. 



21. A. bbovata, Blume Mus. Sot. i. 342 ; branchlets and leaves 

 rusty-pubescent, leaves whorled triple-nerved 10-18 in. long-petioled thinly 

 coriaceous broadly elliptic-oblong or obovate acuminate smooth and shining 

 above often glaucous beneath, nerves 3-4 pairs sjender beneath, male fl. 

 large clustered, fern, panicled, fruit ellipsoid seated on the thickened cupular 

 entire perianth -tube. Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 219. Tetranthera 

 obovata, Wall. Cat. 2562. Tetradenia obovata, Nees in Wall PL As. JRar. 

 ii. 64. Litsaea obovata, Nees Syst. Laurin. 636. Laurus obovata, Herb. 

 Sam. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 1-2000 ft., J. D. H., Clarke. ASSAM, Jenkins. SILHET 

 and KHASIA MTS., ascending to 3000 ft. DISTEIB. Munnipore. 



A small tree; branches stout. Leaves 4-12 in. diam., very variable in size and 

 shape, largest often quite membranous, rarely elliptic-lanceolate; petiole 1-2 in. 

 Male fl. J in. diam., tube very short, lobes membranous; fern, much smaller, but 

 longer pedicelled. Style glabrous. Fruit f-1 in. long ; cup dilated, g in. diam., 

 turbinate ; pedicel very stout, | in. long. 



22. A. ambig ua, Hook. f. ; nearly glabrous, leaves subverticillate 

 3 in. orbicular or broadly oblong (rarely oblong-lanceolate) obtuse or tip 



rounded triple-nerved glaucous beneath margins recurved, umbels 4-6-fld. 

 sessile solitary or clustered, bracts 6-8, fruit ellipsoid subo.void or subglobose. 

 A. molochina, y. subtriplinervis, Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 211. Litsaea 

 ambigua, Meissn. 1. c. L. zeylanica, var. /3., Thwaites Enum. 257, in part. 

 L. orbicularis, Thwaites Enum. 258; Meissn. I. c. 222 (C. P. 2699, 3155, 2280, 

 72, 2278). 



CEYLON ; Ambagamowa district and Central Province, alt. 4-7000 ft., Gardner, 

 Thivaites. 



A small tree ; branchlets usually black, " brown-tomentellous," Thwaites. Leaves 

 very rigidly coriaceous, pale brown, convex above and shining with 6-8 pair of impressed 

 "nerves, glaucous (white and pruinose, Thwaites) beneath with rather slender nerves, 

 the 2 basal reaching about the middle of the leaf, base rounded or acute rarely cor- 

 date ; petiole |-| in. (and midrib hairy at the base, Thwaites). Umbels, unopened 



