156 cxxvin. LAUBINB^E. (J. D. Hooker.) 



nearly horizontal or obliquely ascending, base acute ; petiole ^-1 in., very slender. 

 Umbels $ in. diam. ; bracts membranous, not iu decussating pairs, glabrous or sparsely 

 silky ; flowers with usually villous white pedicels; males about in. diam., with an 

 abortive ovary ; females smaller, stamens imperfect, stigma disciform. Sepals mem- 

 brauous, obovate, subequal. Stamens 9-10 in the male, 3 of them 2-glandular; fila- 

 ments usually hairy;, anthers quadrate. Fruit 5-5 in. diam. This is not the 

 L. citrata of Hong Kong. 



2. X*. XLingrii, HooJc. f. ; quite glabrous, branches black when dry, 

 leaves 3-4 in. alternate deciduous penninerved short-petioled thinly coria- 

 ceous greenish when dry elliptic-lanceolate acute glaucous and reticulate 

 beneath, nerves 12-18 pair very slender and spreading, umbels solitary or 

 few and corymbose stoutly pedicelled recurved in bud 5-fld., fruit small 

 globose, perianth-base not enlarged. L.. citrata, Herb. Calcutta, in part. 

 Tetranthera No. 5, Herb. Ind. Or. H.f.fyT. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 6-8000 ft., J. D. H., King, Clarice. KHASIA MTS., 

 Griffith. 



A deciduous bush, with a delightful spicy fragrance; branches stout, quite smooth ; 

 terminal buds with the young leaves quite glabrous and convolute (like a lanceolate or 

 perulate bud). Leaves thin but firm in texture, shining and reticulate above, with 

 pale nerves, base acute; petiole ^-\ in. Umbels \ in. diain. ; bracts 4-5, quite 

 glabrous, not decussately opposite ; flowers with short quite glabrous pedicels ; males 

 about in. diam. Sepals 6, oblong, unequal. Stamens 8-12, 4 or 6 2-glandular ; 

 filaments glabrous. Ovary minute ; female in smaller fewer-fid, umbels ; perianth 

 more irregular; stigma discoid. Fruit | in. diam. Closely allied to L. citrata., but 

 quite distinct in the stouter branches, more elliptic acute leaves, short petioles, and 

 much stouter pedicels of the umbels.. 



** Terminal buds perulate. 



3. Xi. sericea, Wall. Cat. 2545 (Tetranthera) ; branches black when 

 dry, terminal buds perulate, leaves 3-4 in. alternate deciduous penninerved 

 subcoriaceous oblong-lanceolate base acute softly tomentose and reticulate 

 beneath, nerves slender 10-12 pair, umbels solitary very shortly pedicelled 

 8-20 fld., bracts 4 caducous, fruit long-pedicelled small subglobose on the 

 very small fiat perianth-tube. Tetranthera sericea, Wall. ; Nees in Wall. 

 PI. As. Bar. ii. 67, and ^Syst. Laurin. 565; lume Mus. Bot. i. 376. T. 

 sericea and T. sikkimensis (exel. syn. T.-elongata and hob. Khasia), Meissn. 

 in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 181. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, alt. 9-11,000 ft.; from Nepal, Wallich, to Bhotan, 

 Griffith. DISTEIB. Munnipore. 



A small very aromatic tree, sometimes 50 ft. high ; bud-scales rigid, outer short 

 obtuse, innermost long, lanceolate, acuminate ; branches robust. Leaves pale brown 

 when dry, young clothed with fulvous brown silky shining tomentum, base very 

 acute ; petiole in., tomentose. Umbels nearly 1 in. diam., on very short tomentose 

 peduncles; bracts glabrous; flowers pedicelled, iu. diam. Sepals 6, rounded, hairy 

 at the base within. Stamens 12, short, filaments hairy ; anthers broad, square ; 

 glands very large. Ovary ovoid, style stout, stigma very large. Fruit \ in. long, 

 pedicels f-1 in. long. 



4. Zi. oreophila, Hook. f. ; quite glabrous, branches rather slender, 

 leaves alternate penninerved deciduous ovate-lanceolate acuminate finely 

 reticulate on both surfaces, nerves 8-10 pair very slender, umbels solitary 

 pedicelled ovoid in bud and mucronate 6-fld., bracts 4 broadly ovate acute 

 cucullate glabrous, flowers tomentose. Lindera Hookeri, Meissn. in DC. 

 Prodr. xv. 1. 245. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA ; Lachoong Valley, alt. 10-11,000 ft., J. D. H. 



