166 cxxvm. LAURINE/E. (J. D. Hooker.) \Litswa. 



hairs, sometimes \ in. long and very slender; anthers oblong. Ovary in male fl. 

 miuute; in fern, glabrous with a 'stout style and discoid stigma. Fruit | in. long; 

 perianth-base about 3 in diam. with the thickened pedicel ^-| in. long. The leaves 

 are so variable in shape and size, that I have difficulty in sorting the specimens into 

 varieties thereby. A small-leaved state from Bbotan, Griffith, and Sikkim alt. 8000 ft., 

 has rounded bases to the leaf. The only Garwhal specimen I have seen has sessile 

 clustered umbels. In the Genera Plantarum this species is inadvertently (under 

 Lindera, Sect. 3, v. iii. p. 163) referred to the section Eulitscea, but the perianth is 

 very well developed, and its tube much enlarged ; it is therefore a good Cylico- 

 daphne. It is very easily confounded with Lindera assamica and states of L. 

 bifaria. 



28. Ii nuculanea, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Seng. 1873, ii. 102, and 

 For. FL ii. 301 ; branchlets petioles and leaves beneath softly tomentose or 

 sublanate, leaves 5-6 in. alternate penninerved thinly coriaceous obovate or 

 obovate- oblong to oblong-lanceolate acute, base acute beneath glaucous reti- 

 culated and with 6-8 pair of rather slender nerves, umbels subsessile, fruit 

 oblong mucronate pale yellow longer than the large subhemispheric truncate 

 nearly smooth shortly peduncled cup. Cylicodaphne Hookeri, var. siam- 

 ensis, Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 209. 



TENASSERLM, Kurz ; on Molyet, alt. 6000 ft., Gallatly (in Herb. Calcutt.). 

 DISTEIB. Siain. 



A shrub; branchlets slender. Leaves 2 3| in. diam., very softly tomentose 

 beneath, above green and smooth with impressed nerves ; petiole \-\ in. Floivers 

 unknown. Fruit about f in. long, cupular perianth-tube f in. diam., warted. The 

 fruit of this a good deal resembles in its colour and mucronate top that of the plant 

 named T. Iceta in Herb. Calcutt. (not the true Iceta), which has lobed cups and longer 

 petioles. 



29. Ii. coriacea, Heyne in Wall. Cat. 2556 (Tetranthera) ; branchlets 

 leaves beneath and umbels finely pubescent, leaves 4-6 in. alternate penni- 

 nerved coriaceous elliptic-ovate or lanceolate acute or .acuminate at both 

 ends greenish above beneath at length glabrous brown and reticulated, nerves 

 6-10 pair, umbels 4-fld. small crowded subsessile, fruit small oblong seated 

 on the enlarged cupular shortly pedicelled truncate perianth-tube. Tetran- 

 thera coriacea, Heyne ; Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 186. T. micrantha, 

 Meissn. I. c. 183. 



DECCAN PENINSULA, Heyne; Courtallam, Wight (Kew Distrib. 2532). 



Branches rather slender, bark pale. Leaves very variable in breadth, l-2 in., 

 red-brown beneath, transverse nervules obscure ; petiole very short, - in. Umbels 

 in. diam., when flowering, appressed to the branch in a small globose head ; pedicel 

 elongating a little in fruit ; bracts 4, silky. Malefl. funnel-shaped, silky below. 

 (Sepals small, glabrous. Stamens 12, apparently glabrous ; glands of those opposite 

 the sepals very large. Ovary, if present, slender, with an erect small stigma. Fruit 

 (unripe) | in. long, obtuse, perianth-tube in. broad, with the thickened pedicel 

 sometimes \ in. long. 



30. Ei. Hooker iana, Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 188 (Tetranthera) ; 

 branchlets very stout and leaves beneath densely softly brown-torn entose, 

 leaves 4-6 in. alternate penninerved thickly coriaceous elliptic or obovate 

 obtuse beneath not reticulate, nerves 6-8 pair, petiole very stout, male 

 umbels 8-12-fld. subsilky or nearly glabrous, pedicel slender. L. nemoralis 

 in part, Trimen. Syst. Cat. Ceyl. PL 76. 



CEYLON, Gardner. 



Branches with pale bark, and large scars of fallen leaves (mossed in the specimens). 

 Leaves remarkably coriaceous, 2-2| in. diam., smooth and pale brown above with 

 faintly impressed nerves and a puberulous costa which is very stout beneath, not 



