Litscea.] cxxvin. LAURINE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) 169 



saUcifolia are referable either to sect. ConodapJine or Cylicodaphne, according to 

 the development of the perianth-tube. 



Var. ? albescens ; leaves shorter and broader nearly white beneath. Outer ranges 

 of the Sikkim Himalaya, alt, 4-6000 ft., J. D. H., Clarke. 



35. Zi. ang-ustifolia, Wall. Cat. 2537 (Tetranthera) ; nearly or quite 

 glabrous, leaves 3-8 in. shortly petioled alternate penninerved narrowly 

 linear-lanceolate acute or acuminate, nerves 15-30 pair, umbels simple 

 chiefly axillarysolitary or clustered glabrous, pedicels slender. Tetranthera 

 angustifolia, Wall.-, Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 183, in part. T. saligna, 

 Nees in Wall. PI. As. Bar. ii. 67, and Syst. Laurin. 539. 



SILHET, De Silva. Cbittagong, Clarke, Lister. DISTEIB. Munnipore. 



Branches slender, young hoary. Leaves \-\ in. diam., dark brown when dry 

 above, grey brown beneath, smooth, nerves slender; petiole - in. Umbels small, 

 male 3- in. diam., about 6 fld. ; flowers nearly glabrous. Sepals oblong. Stamens 

 69, filaments sparsely hairy, hardly longer than the sepals. Fern, fl. "And fruit not 

 seen. Wallich's specimens have very slender branches and leaves only 3-4 in. 

 Meissner, misled by wrongly named specimens, has described the young fruit of 

 another plant for that of this. The usually much longer narrow leaves with 

 many nerves and slender pedicels of the umbels distinguish this from L. saUcifolia. 

 It is perhaps nearer to L. oblong a. 



36. Ii. IVIeissncri, Hook. f. ; quite glabrous except the bracts and 

 flowers, leaves 3-5 in. alternate penninerved coriaceous narrowly elliptic- 

 lanceolate obtusely subcaudate-acuminate pale finely reticulated on both 

 surfaces subglaucous beneath, nerves 10-15 pair slender and raised above, 

 umbels 4-fld. solitary shortly pedicelled, bracts 4 silky long ciliate coria- 

 ceous very unequal outer smaller, perianth 4-lobed, stamens 9. Litsssa ? 

 khasiana, Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 227. Dodecadenia ? Herb. Ind. 

 Or.H.f.SfT. 



KHASIA MTS. ; near Churra and the Boga panee, alt. 4-5000 ft.,- J. D. H. 

 $T. T. 



Branches rather slender. Leaves |-1| in. broadj very pale yellowish brown, 

 smooth and almost shining above when dry, base acute, nervules raised beneath, but 

 hardly transverse"; petiole J J in., slender. Umbels (male) ^ in. diam., on stiff stout 

 pedicels or subsessile ; bracts very concave, whitish when dry, fringed with long 

 brown hairs ; flowers sessile, silky. Sepals membranous, broadly oblong. Stamens 

 short, filaments hairy ; anthers small, very short. Ovary imperfect, style hairy, 

 stigma 2-lobed. This is quite unlike any other species of either Actinodaphne or 

 Litscea, but is in some respects nearest L. elongaia in the solitary umbels with 

 unequal long ciliate bracts. I found specimens of a similar shrub at the coal-pits 

 near Churra, in which the nerves are more numerous and spreading, and the very 

 young umbels seem to be crowded on a very short peduncle. 



37. Ii. laeta, Wall. Cat. 2541 (Tetranthera) ; glabrous or nearly so, 

 leaves 5-14 in. alternate penninerved coriaceous pale when dry elliptic- or 

 linear-oblong or -lanceolate acute glaucous beneath finely reticulate on both 

 surfaces, nerves 5-8 pair, umbels 3-8-fld. large in sessile clusters usually 

 long-pedicelled glabrous or hoary, bracts 4-5, stamens 9-12, fruit large glo- 

 bose seated on a large pedicelled turbinate perianth-tube. Tetranthera Iseta, 

 Nees in Wall. PI. As. Ear. ii. 67, and Syst. Laurin. 548 and 677 ; Meissn, 

 in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 186 (excl. var. y. ? glauca). 



TROPICAL EASTERN HIMALAYA; Sikkim and Bhotan. ASSAM, KHASIA MTS. 

 and SILHET, alt. 2-4000 ft., common. 



A small tree ; branches rather slender ; shoots and young leaves beneath very finely 

 pubescent. Leaves very variable in breadth, pale green or yellow above when dry, and 

 white or very pale reddish beneath, base acute ; petiole - in., stout in the larger 



