168 cxxvin. LAURINE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Lifsasa. 



For. Fl. ii. 300 (lancifolid). T. salicifolia & saligna, Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. 

 tfT. 



NOETHEBN and EASTEEN INDIA ; from Oude and Nepal to Sikkim (ascending to 

 6000 ft.)- Assam, Bengal, Chittagong and Pegu. 



An evergreen bush or small tree ; branches never very stout, bark dark or black. 

 Leaves very variable, pale brown or darker above when dry, smooth and usually 

 obscurely reticulated above, nerves beneath strong with faint nervules ; petiole |-1 in. 

 Umbels |-J in. diam., nerves corymbose, glabrous or hoary. Stamens 6-9, usually 

 very short, with villous filaments. Fruit \ in. long, purple-black ; perianth-tube 

 variable in size, but always small and narrower than the base of the ripe fruit, and 

 rarely cupular as in L. oblonga, from which it is hardly distinguishable. I have 

 vainly endeavoured to arrange the many forms of this protean plant under the 

 varieties proposed by Meissner, the characters of which are chiefly taken from the 

 reticulation and hoariness of the foliage. Of Nees' var. 7. leevigata, which is Meissner's 

 var. 5., from Courtallam, Wight, I know nothing. The following marked forms are 

 united by intermediates. 



Var. 1. ellipsoidea, Meissn. ; branches hoary, leaves large 4-12 in. broadly elliptic 

 or oblong passing into lanceolate glaucous beneath, petiole often 1 in., umbels sub- 

 sessile in dense subglobose heads. Sikkim, Assam, Khasia, Silhet. The type of 

 Wallich's glauca. 



Var. 2. elongata, Meissn. ; branches hoary or glabrous, leaves narrower, petiole 

 often long, umbels on stout pedicels more loosely clustered. Assam, Khasia and 

 Silhet. I suppose this to be Meissner's var. as named ; his locality of Penins, Ind. 

 Hb. Wight, founded on an Assam specimen in Herb. Wight. 



Var. 3. attenuata, Meissn. ; branches quite glabrous, leaves -subdistichous about 

 6 by 1| in. linear-oblong acute shining above brown beneath, petiole short, umbels 

 in globose clusters. Assam, Silhet, &c. This is Wallich's T. attenuata (Cat. 

 2534 A.). 



Var. 4. laurifolia ; branches hoary, leaves subdistichous 3-5 by |-1 in. linear- 

 oblong obtuse or acute brown and glabrous or grey and hoary beneath, petiole short, 

 umbels loosely clustered, pedicels short slender. Common in Assam, Khasia, Silhet 

 and Bengal, from the Sunderbunds to Chittagong. This is T. laurifolia, Herb. Ham., 

 and Wallich's T. salicifolia, Herb. Roxb. (Cat. 2536), and T. angustifolia of Gamble 

 (Man. Ind. Timb. 311). It is very similar to L. angustifolia, Wall., but has fewer 

 nerves and broader leaves. 



Var. 5. polyneura ; leaves 5-10 in. elliptic-lanceolate acuminate polished above, 

 nerves 12-16 pair. Sikkim and Khasia, alt. 3-4000 ft. 



Var. ? 6. reticulata ; leaves 5-9 in. elliptic-lanceolate caudate-acuminate, upper 

 surface reticulated with pale nervules under brown, stigma in male fl. very large 

 discoid. A small tree from the Myrung woods, Khasia. T. salicifolia in part, 

 Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. fy T. This is probably a different species, but in the absence of 

 fruit I hesitate to name it as such. 



34. Zi. pblongra, TPa?2. Cat. 2542 (Tetranthera) ; glabrous or nearly so, 

 leaves 4-7 in. alternate penninerved elliptic- or oblong-lanceolate subacute 

 pale brown and snbglaucous beneath with 8-10 pair of slender nerves and 

 no cross-nervules, umbels in shortly peduncled corymbs or shortly racemose 

 3-6-fld., bracts and pedicels glabrous or hoary, fruit oblong base immersed 

 in the small cupular perianth-tube. Cylicodaptme oblonga, Meissn. in DC. 

 Prodr. xv. 1. 205, excl. var. Tetranthera oblonga, Nees in Wall. PL As. Rar. 

 ii. 67, and Syst. Laurin. 551. ? T. Bosnia, Don Prodr. 65. Tomex 

 Doshia, Sam. mss. 



NEPAL, Wallich. Assam and Khasia Mts., Jenkins, Griffith (Keiv Distrib. 

 4300). 



A Shrub or small tree, so similar to L. salicifolia, that I suspect it to be only a 

 more glabrous state of that plant with more corymbose inflorescence, rather larger 

 umbels, and a longer narrower fruit, of an in. long. Meissner's var. Stocksii is 

 L. StocJcsii, nob., and his var. Griffithii is L. myristiccefolia, Wall. This and L. 



