Litscea.] cxxvin. LAURINE^:. (J. D. Hooker.) 171 



Branches stout, smooth, young buds quite glabrous. Leaves 3-3| in. broad; base 

 acute or obtuse, rather unequal ; petiole 1-2 in., stout, black. Umbels in bud as 

 large as a small pea, pedicels \ in., not very stout ; bracts hardly coriaceous, 2 outer 

 opposite, very concave, inner membranous ; flowers sessile, sparsely hairy below. 

 Sepals scarious, unequal, linear-oblong. Filaments hairy. Ovary of male minute, 

 with a large stigma. Fruit unknown. I have seen but one specimen, in bud, com- 

 municated by Dr. King ; it much resembles (and is probably) Tetr. elliptica, Nees, of 

 Java, and T. nigricans of Borneo, which latter .has smaller cymose or subraceinose 

 umbels. 



41. Zi. petiolata, Hook.f. ; branches and leaves glabrous, leaves 4-5 in. 

 alternate long-petioled penninerved coriaceous pale brown when dry elliptic 

 or oblong obtuse or subacute smooth above beneath minutely reticulate with 

 5-6 pairs of slender nerves, umbels below the .leaves clustered very shortly 

 pedicelled 5-fld., bracts 5 outer glabrous, sepals 6 with long lax hairs, 

 stamens 9-10, filaments long slender villous. 



MALACCA, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1265). 



Branches grey brown when dry, tips and young leaves glabrous. Leaves much 

 like L. leiantha, but the petioles rather shorter and more slender* shining above, 

 hardly glaucous beneath. Umbels % in. diam. ; outer bracts hardly coriaceous, inner 

 membranous slightly pubescent, innermost small ; flowers on villous pedicels laxly 

 clothed with long rufous flexuous hairs. Sepals linear-oblong, membranous. Fila- 

 ments far exserted, 2 or more 2-glaudular. Ovary (in male) rudimentary, filiform, 

 Avith a very large discoid stigma. Fruit smdf em. fl. unknown. The long petioles are 

 characteristic. 



42. Zi. castanea, HooJc.f.\ branchlets hoary, leaves 3-6 in. alternate 

 pecninerved hard coriaceous and dark brown when dry glabrous oblong or 

 obovate-oblong obtuse very finely reticulate on both surfaces, base acute or 

 obtuse, nerves 12-16 pair impressed above very strong beneath, umbels 

 solitary clustered or corymbose on a very short peduncle 5-4-fld., pedicels 

 stout, bracts 4 very coriaceous white-tomeiitose, stamens 10-15 villous. 



MALACCA, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1269). 



Branches woody, dark grey brown, not stout. Leaves lJ-2 in. diam., smooth 

 but not shining above, paler brown beneath ; petiole f-1 in., rather slender. Umbels 

 J in. diam., pedicels as long ; bracts very concave, persistent with involute margins 

 when dry, glabrous within ; flowers minute, sessile, -^ in. diam. Sepals 6, linear- 

 oblong, or linear, obtuse, veiy unequal, villous. Stamens variable in number, fila- 

 ments very slender, villous, 3-4 with small pedicelled glands ; anthers short, broad. 

 Ovary in fl. male 0. Fruit unknown. This Maingay has referred to Cylicodaphne 

 obtusifolia, Nees, of Java, which differs in the leaves being nerveless. 



43. Xi. albicans, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Seng. 1 873, ii. 102, and For. 

 Fl. ii. 303 (Tetranthera) ; glabrous except the shoots and inflorescence, 

 leaves 6-10 in. alternate penninerved thinly coriaceous lanceolate or oblong- 

 lanceolate shortly acuminate base narrowed beneath glaucous and reticulate, 

 nerves 6-10 pairs slender, umbels clustered on a short peduncle, fruit in a 

 large fleshy waved perianth-tube narrowed into a thick pedicel. 



PEGTT ; in tropical forests on the Eastern slopes, Kurz. 



A tree, 20-25 ft. ; branches rather slender. Leaves 2-2 in. broad, obscurely 

 reticulate above, base very acute; petiole -f in. long. Umbels small. I have 

 seen only leaves and very young umbels. The description is almost wholly from 

 Kurz. 



44. Xi. penangriana, Hook. f. ; glabrous or nearly so, leaves 5-8 in. 

 alternate penninerved coriaceous pale when dry elliptic-oblong obtuse pi- 

 acute finely reticulate on both surfaces, nerves 5-8 pair, umbels in sessile 



