154 cxxvin. LAURINE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Actinodaphne. 



globose, - in. diain., scattered along the branches and axillary ; bracts hard, strongly 

 ciliate, outer smaller glabrous, inner hemispheric rusty silkily hairy ; flowers pedicelled, 

 in. diam., and pedicel silkily tomentose. Sepals 4-6, oblong. Stamens 6-9, fila- 

 ments short. Fruit about $ in. long. A very distinct species, strangely mixed up 

 with others by Thwaites and Meissner. I have adopted Meissner's specific name 

 as the orbicular-leaved state is quite exceptional, and it is certainly not a Litscea. 

 Meissner's var. . lanceolata is a narrower leaved form. 



*** Leaves scattered or alternate more or less triple-nerved. 



23. A. confertiflora, Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 219 ; glabrous, 

 leaves alternate 5-7 in. coriaceous orbicular-ovate or -oblong acute or obtuse 

 triple-nerved and with 3-4 pair of strong superior nerves, 1 pale or sub- 

 glaucous beneath and delicately reticulate, flowers very numerous long- 

 pedicelled in dense axillary subsessile fascicled clusters, bracts not seen. 



EASTERN HIMALAYA ; Bhotan, near Dewangiri, alt. 2-3000 ft., Griffith (Kew 

 Distrib. 433). 



Branches stout, black when dry, smooth. Leaves 3-4 in. broad, pale brown and 

 shining above, with slender raised nerves ; paler beneath with very strong nerves, of 

 which the two lower pair are penninervuled towards the margin of the leaf ; base 

 acute; petiole f-1 in. long. Flowers, unexpauded \ in. diam., globose, glabrous, or 

 nearly so ; pedicels |- in. ; common peduncle ^ in., scarred by the fallen bracts. 

 Sepals rounded, concave, coriaceous. Filaments glabrous, anthers short. Ovary 

 subglobose, with three lateral furrows, a subulate style and acute stigma. Fruit 

 unknown. The ovary is remarkable for the genus. 



24. A. leiantha, Hook. f. ; glabrous except the rusty-tomentose 

 inflorescence, leaves scattered 5-9 in. coriaceous subtriple-nerved lanceolate 

 acute or subacute, nerves 6-8 pair beneath subglaucous not reticulated, 

 flowers in axillary and infra-axillary racemes which when young are clothed 

 with imbricate rounded silky caducous bracts. Litssea leiantha, Kwz For. 

 Fl. ii. 305. 



TENASSEBIM (or Andaman Islands), Heifer (Kew Distrib. 4330). 



Branches black, bark smooth. Leaves brown when dry, 2-2 in. diam., rigid, 

 margins undulate, base acute, shining above with raised nerves, beneath glaucous 

 when young, lowest pair of nerves longest, |-J the length of the leaf; petiole 1-1. V in., 

 slender. Flowers \ in. diam., clusters arranged on an erect raceme 1-2 in. long ; rachis 

 slender, nearly glabrous; pedicels short; bracts % in. diam., coriaceous. Perianth 

 villous within at the base ; segments concave. Filaments and anthers short. Ovary 

 and style slender glabrous, stigma discoid. Fruit unknown. The foliage resembles 

 that of A. sphcerocarpa of Java, in which the flowers are umbelled. The racemose 

 inflorescence is unique in the genus. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



ACTINODAPHNE sp., South Andaman, Kurz in Herb. Calcutta branches very 

 stout and petiole and midrib above and beneath brown-tomentose, leaves whorled 

 penninerved 12-18 by 4-7 in. oblong-lanceolate acuminate shining above glaucous and 

 reticulate beneath, nerves 12-15 pair and cross nerves impressed above raised beneath, 

 petiole stout 1-1^ in. 



. ACTINODAPHNE sp. Beddome in his Forest Manual (187) alludes to a new and 

 fine species called Nattee as forming a lofty tree in the South Canara Ghats. 



ACTINODAPHNE ? from Seetakoond, near Chittagong, Clarke ; a plant very like 

 A. leiantha, having similar racemose inflorescence. Branches slender and leaves 

 glabrous. Leaves scattered triple-nerved, thinly coriaceous, 3-5 in., elliptic or elliptic- 

 lanceolate, obtusely caudate-acuminate, narrowed into a very long slender petiole 

 i-l| in., impressed punctate on both surfaces, subglaucous beneath, lower pair of 

 nerves very long, others few or Q. Racemes J-l in., solitary or 2-nate, erect, simple 



