162 cxxvm. LAURINE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Litscea. 



SOUTH DECCAN, Heyne, Wight. Tinnevelly Hills, alt. 3-4000 ft., Beddome. 



An evergreen straggling bush ; bark brownish. I/eaves greenish when dry, quite 

 smooth above, loosely reticulate beneath, base acute ; petiole -3- in., slender. Umbels 

 % in. diam. j pedicel ^~| in. j common peduncle in fern. \ in. or less ; flowers quite 

 glabrous. Sepals 5 or 6, oblong, unequal, very transparent and gland-dotted. Stamens 

 in the male 10, filaments glabrous, 6 2-glandular ; anthers nearly square, gland-dotted ; 

 outer stamens of fern, with small subspathulate heads, inner short with large glands. 

 Ovary ovoid, tapering into the slender style ; stigma large, discoid. Fruit unknown. 

 Very closely allied to Tetr. gemelli flora, Miquel, of Java, which has a remarkable 

 oblong fruit nearly 2 in. long seated on the unaltered perianth-tube ; it is possibly a 

 variety of it. 



18. Zi. firma, Blume Mus. Sot. i. 381 (Tetranthera) ; branches glabrous, 

 leaves 3-7 in. alternate penniiierved red-brown when dry rigidly coriaceous 

 oblong or obovate smooth above beneath minutely pubescent with 10-12 

 pairs of very strong arching nerves and slender parallel cross-nervules, male 

 umbels 5-fld., pedicels sometimes on a very short peduncle, perianth densely 

 villous, sepals narrow unequal. Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 190; Miquel 

 FL Ind. Sat. i. 950. 



MALACCA, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1271). DISTEIB. Borneo, Celebes. 



An evergreen tree or bush ; branches woody, bark wrinkled when dry and quite 

 glabrous. Leaves 3-7 in., very hard when dry, pale or dark red-brown, not reticulate 

 above, often redder beneath ; base acute or narrowed into the smooth glabrous petiole 

 ^-f in. long. Male umbels very numerous, axillary and at the old leaf -scars, | in. 

 diam., pedicels - in. ; bracts 4, pubescent! Stamens 9-16, 3-6 2-glandular. Ovary 

 filiform or 0. Fruit not seen. 



*** Leaves alternate, pubescent or tomentose beneath. 



19. L. grandis, Wall. Cat. 2552 (Tetranthera) ; branches very stout, 

 and leaves beneath densely brown-tomentose, leaves 8-16 in. alternate pen- 

 ninerved very thickly coriaceous and hard brown when dry oblong or 

 obovate-oblong obtuse smooth above beneath with 12-16 pairs of very strong 

 spreading nerves and strong parallel cross-nervules, petiole very stout, male 

 umbels large 5-7-fld. in sessile fascicles or corymbose on a very stout 

 peduncle, sepals long narrow subequal silky. Tetranthera grandis, Meissn. 

 in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 188 ; Xurz For. Fl. ii. 299. Polyadenia grandis, Nees 

 in Wall. PL As. Rar. ii. 62, and Syst. Laurin. 574. 



PEGU and TENASSEEIM, Kurz. PENANG, Porter. MALACCA and SINGAPORE, 

 Maingay. 



A tree, 20-40 ft., with warted bark (Kurz}. Leaves large, hard, 3-7 in. broad, 

 nervea impressed above, tip often rounded ; base obtuse or rounded ; petiole very 

 stout, 1-2 in. Male umbels numerous, rather silkily tomeutose, |-f in. diam., in bud 

 as large as a pea ; pedicels ^ in. ; bracts 5, coriaceous. Sepals linear-elongate. 

 Stamens 12-14, anthers short, 3-4-glandular. Fruit unknown. I do not know 

 Meissner's fi.javanica (T. multiflora, Zoll.), nor have I found amongst Wallich's 

 plants specimens of L. grandis from Birma (as cited by Meissner). A Bornean plant 

 of Beccari (Sarawak n. 2537) closely resembles this ; it is in bud only. 



20. Zi. polyantha, Juss. in Ann. Mus. vi. 211 ; branches and leaves 

 beneath pubescent or tomentose, leaves 3-16 in. alternate penninerved char- 

 taceons broadly or narrowly oblong ovate or obovate tip obtuse rounded or 

 apiculate glabrous above strongly, reticulate beneath base acute rounded or 

 cor4ate, nerves 5-10 pair, umbels 5-6-fld. clustered and subcorymbose on a 

 short peduncle, bracts 4-5, fruit globosely ellipsoid on a very small perianth- 

 base. L. monopetala, Pers. Sijnops. ii. 4. Tetranthera monopetala, Roxl. 

 Cor. PL ii. 26, t. 148, and FL Ind. iii. 821 ; Nees in Wall. PL As. Rar. ii. 



