Actinodaplme.~\ cxxvm. LAURINE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) 155 



or compressed, formed of globose clusters of 3-5 flowers enclosed in 6-8 subsilkily 

 pubescent rounded concave bracts ; peduncle of raceme slender, with a few small 

 scales. Flowers too young to analyze. This may be a Lind&ra, for the inflorescence 

 somewhat resembles that of L. caudata ; or possibly a Litscea of the section 

 Neolitescea. 



11. LITSJEA, LamTc. (TETRANTHEB.A, Jacg..*) 



Evergreen, rarely deciduous trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, rarely 

 opposite or subopposite, penninerved, rarely triple-nerved, leaf-buds naked 

 or scaly. Flowers dioecious, umbellate ; umbels 4-6- rarely more-flowered, 

 sessile or pedicelled ; pedicels clustered rarely solitary, axillary or on the 

 leaf -scars, sometimes racemose or fascicled on a common peduncle ; invo- 

 lucral bracts 4-6, rarely more, concave, coriaceous or membranous. Perianth- 

 tube ovoid campanulate or very short ; lobes or segments 6-4, rarely more or 

 fewer, equal or unequal, or in a few wanting. Stamens 6, 9, 12, rarely more 

 or fewer ; filaments of 1st and 2nd series usually eglandular, of the 3rd (and 

 4th if present) 2-glandular ; anthers all introrse, 4-celled. Fruit a drupe or 

 succulent, seated on the often greatly enlarged perianth- tube. Species 

 about 140, Tropical and Eastern Asia, Australasia, -the Pacific Islands, 

 rare in Africa and America. 



After many weeks of study I am unable to offer a satisfactory account of the 

 Indian Litsseas, flower of one or other sex and fruit of most being wanted to determine 

 their affinities and formulate the diagnoses of the species. The sections Conodaphne 

 and Cylicodaphne pass into one another, and cannot be distinguished without ripe 

 fruit, which is wanting in two-thirds of the plants referred by Meissner to the first 

 of these sections. Blume's section Tomingodaphne, if confined to the deciduous 

 leaved species, may, I think, be retained. 



It is to be borne in mind that neither Nees nor Meissner cites Roxburgh's " Flora 

 Indica ; " as also that Roxburgh adopted different names for the same plant in his 

 tf Flora, "in his unpublished " Icones," and in the Calcutta Bot. Garden. I have been 

 very cautious in identifying Indian species with Malayan, for want of better specimens 

 of the latter. I think it probable that sect. Neolitscea will be restored to generic 

 rank, as Tetradenia, from its habit and floral characters. 



Sect. I. Tomingrodaphne, Slume. Leaves deciduous, alternate, penni- 

 nerved, terminal buds usually perulate (clothed with imbricate chartaceous 

 scales. Perianth-segments 6 ; tube not enlarged in fruit. Mountain species, 

 of 5-11,000 feet elevation. 



* Terminal buds naked. 



1. I*, citrata, Blume Sijd. 565 ; quite glabrous, branches black when 

 dry, leaves 5-7 in. deciduous alternate long-petioled penninerved mem- 

 branous greenish when dry lanceolate caudate-acuminate glaucous beneath, 

 nerves 12-15 pair very slender, umbels solitary or corymbose on a very short 

 peduncle 4-10-fld., pedicels very slender, fruit small globose, perianth-base 

 not enlarged. Tetranthera citrata, Nees Syst. Laurin. 560 ; Blume Mus. 

 Sot. i. 385 ; Miquel Fl. Ind; Sat. i. 958. T. polyantha, WalL Cat. 2538 ; 

 Nees in Wall. PI. As. Rar. ii. 67, and Syst. Laurin. 545; Meissn. in DC. 

 Prodr. xv. 1. 182 (including J3. citrata, but excluding China as locality] ; Kurz 

 For. Fl. ii. 301. 



EASTEKN HIMALAYA; from Sikkim to Mishmi, alt. 5-9000 ft. KHASIA MTS., 

 alt. 5-6000 ft. AVA, Kurz. DISTKIB. Java. 



A deciduous bush or small tree, with a delightful fragrance of oranges ; branches 

 slender, quite smooth ; terminal bud naked. Leaves the most membranous of the 

 genus, bright green above, dull glaucous beneath, youngest silky ; nerves variable, from 



