Litscea.] cxxvm. LAURINE/E. (J. D. Hooker.) 163 



66, and Syst. Laurin. 525 ; Slume Mus. Hot. i. 378 ; Meissn. in DC. Prodr. 

 xv, 1. 189 ; Miguel Fl. Ind. Bat. i. 948 ; Brand. For. FL 380, t. 45 ; Kurz 

 For. FL ii. 299; Gamble Man. Ind. Timl. 310. T. macrqphylla, Wall. Cat. 

 2549. T. alnoides, Miquel PI. Jungh. 180, and Fl. Ind.. Bat. 1. c. 948. T. 

 f ruticosa & verticillata, Herb. Ham. ? T. semecarpifolia, Wall. Cat. 6345 A. 

 T. hexantha, Sieb. FL Maurit. 92. Tomex pubescens, Herb. Willd. 



From PANJAB and the SALT KANGE along the foot of the HIMALAYA ascending to 

 3000 ft., eastwards to ASSAM and southwards to the SATPTTHA RANGE (Brandis}. Co 

 KOMANDEL (SoxbtirffK), TENASSEEIM and PENANG. (Not in Ceylon.} DISTEIB. 

 Java, China (introd. in Mauritius). 



An evergreen bush or small tree, 20-40 ft. ; branches rather stout. Leaves ex- 

 tremely variable, the largest (Ava, Wallich) 16 by 9 in., usually rusty -brown when 

 dry, rarely green, glossy above ; nerves strong beneath ; petiole -1 in. Umbels (un- 

 opened & in. diani.) densely tomentose, stoutly pedicelled. Perianth 5-6-partite. 

 Stamens 9-13, filaments hairy. Ovary in $ 0, or with a slender style and small 

 stigma. Fruit - in. Brandis gives South India and Ceylon as habitats, but I 

 have seen no Peninsular specimens, and the only authority for Ceylon is an unnamed 

 scrap of Thwaites (C. P. 326), for which he' gives no locality, and was probably not 

 of his own collecting. Wallich's semecarpifolia (Cat. 6345 A) is, I think, this, but the 

 specimen is a very bad one. 



21. Xi. arnara, Slume Bijd. 563 ; branches and leaves beneath rusty - 

 tomentose rarely glabrate, leaves 4-6 in. alternate penninerved shortly 

 petioled coriaceous brown elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate acute smooth above 

 beneath reticulate with 8-15 pair of very strong nerves, umbels tomentose 

 males clustered or very shortly racemose, females clustered subsessile, 

 perianth densely villous, sepals small narrow very unequal, fruit ovoid or 

 elliptic on the very small calyx-tube. Tetranthera amara, Nees Syst. Laurin. 

 551 ; Kurz For. FL ii. 299 ; Blume Mus. Bot. i. 379 ; Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. 

 i. 949 ; Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 190. T. f ruticosa, Nees I. c. 543. T. 

 capitulata, Miquel PL Jungh. i. 182, and Fl. Ind. Bat. I. c. 



MALAY PENINSULA ; from Pegu southwards to PENANG and MALACCA, Griffith, 

 Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1276). DISTEIB. Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Celebes. 



An evergreen shrub or small tree, very variable in pubescence. ^Leaves rather hard 

 when dry, usually shining above with fine impressed nerves, base acute or obtuse ; 

 petiole J-J in. Inflorescence very variable ; umbels - in. diam., pubescent or hir- 

 tellous ; males sometimes merely clustered in the axils, at others corymbose or race- 

 mose on a short stout peduncle ; pedicels very variable ,' g -J in., stout or slender, hir- 

 tellous or tomentose, as are the bracts. Sepals small, narrow, very unequal, almost 

 obscured by the long villous hairs. Stamens 8-10, filaments villous, at length longer 

 than the sepals, 3 inner 2-glandular ; anthers short. Ovary in male 0, in female with 

 a slender style and small discoid sub-2-lobed stigma. Fruit ^ in. long, very shortly 

 stoutly pedicelled j perianth-base disciform, truncate or obscurely 6-lobed or -toothed. 

 A very variable plant, of which there are many forms in the Archipelago. 



Var.fusco-tomentosa, Meissu. 1. c. ; branches and leaves beneath villously rusty - 

 tomentose. (Vars. puberula & pubescens, Herb. Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1251 and 

 1251/2), and var. velutina, Herb. -Griff., Kew Distrib. 4293.) 



Yar. angusta, Meissn. 1. c. ; branches and4eaves beneath very finely pubescent or 

 almost glabrous, umbels on slender fascicled pedicels ^ |- in. long. Tetranthera an- 

 gnsta, Wall. Cat. 6344; Nees in Wall. PL As. Ear. iii. 30, and Syst. Laurin. 641. 

 Pegu to Tavoy, Heifer (Kew Distrib. 4294 and 4304), Griffith (Kew Distrib. 



22. Zi. rang-ponensis, Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 187 (ea-cl. var. /3.) 

 (Tetranthera) ; branches leaves beneath and inflorescence finely rusty -tomeu- 

 tose, leaves 4-6 in. alternate penninerved thinly coriaceous green when dry 

 oblong-lanceolate acuminate smooth above base rounded beneath finely 

 reticulated with 10-14 pair of strong nerves, male umbels small axillary 

 clustered 4-5-fld., perianth densely villous, sepals small very unequal. 



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