172 cxxvui. LAURIXE^. (J. D. Hooker.) [Litscea. 



clusters hoary-pubescent 6-fld., bracts 4, fruit ^ in. ellipsoid seated on the 

 subsessile hemispheric perianth-tube. 



PENANG, Phillips-, on Government Hill, Maingay (Ketv Distril. 1258/2). 



Hardly distinguishable without the fruit from T. Iceta. It is very closely allied to 

 Tetranthera sessiliflora, Meissn., T..accedens, Blume, T. lucida, Blume, and T. 

 diversifolia, Blume, but the fruit is larger than in any of these. It may be the same as 

 T. tuberculata, but that is described as having subglobose fruit. In shape the 

 cup of the fruit resembles L. Blumii, which differs in the opposite leaves. 



45. Xi. long-ipes, Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 205 (Cylicodaphne) ; 

 quite glabrous, leaves 6-8 in. alternate penninerved very coriaceous oblong 

 obtuse pale above glaucous beneath with 6-10 pairs of slender nerves 

 and very faint reticulations, umbels quite glabrous, fruiting perianth-tube 

 1 in. diam. hemispheric very fleshy, pedicel 14 in. long. Tetranthera 

 myristicaefolia, Wall. ; var. longipes, EJWTZ For. Fl. ii. 302. 



TENASSEBIM, Heifer (Keio Distrib. 4281) ; Mergui, Griffith. 



Branches rather slender, black when dry. Leaves 3-3 in. diam., when dry 

 greenish above. smooth and hardly shining, base acute; petiole |-1 in. Umbels very 

 young, quite glabrous. Fruiting umbels axillary, peduncle much shorter than the 

 pedicels, which are gradually thickened upwards ; large perianth-tube very rugose 

 when dry. 



46. L. myristicaefolia, Wall. Cat. 2548 (Tetranthera); quite gla- 

 brous, leaves 3-9 in. alternate penninerved oblong or elliptic-oblong or 

 lanceolate rarely obovate obtuse or acute beneath brown or glaucous with 

 6-10 pairs of very faint nerves, umbels numerous 4-6-fld. quite glabrous in 

 peduncled clusters or corymbs, fruit small globose immersed in the cupular 

 fleshy shortly pedicelled perianth -tube. Cylicodaphne myristicsefolia, 

 Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 208; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 102 (in part}. 0. 

 oblonga, var. y. ? Griflithii, Meissn. I. c. 205. Lepidadenia Griffithii, Wight 

 Ic. t. 1846. Diospyros ? acuminata, Wall. Cat. 4129. 



PEGU, Kurz. TENASSEEIM, at Tavoy, WallicJi. PENANG, Porter. MALACCA, 

 Ghriffith, Gumming, Maingay. 



A small tree ; branches woody. Leaves very variable in size and form, but uni- 

 form in texture, drying dark or light-coloured, above quite smooth, not shining ; 

 petiole |-f in., rather stout. Umbels, flowering J in. diam. ; pedicels rather slender, 

 f-1 in.; bracts 4-6, coriaceous, 6-fld. (4-fld., Kurz). Sepals 6, glabrous, obscurely 

 lobed or toothed. Stamens 10-12, quite glabrous. Fruit J in. diam. ; perianth-tube 

 clavate, \ in. diam., very fleshy, rugose when dry, narrowing into the very fleshy 

 clavate pedicel, together g \ in. long. This and the preceding are almost the only 

 species of this section with quite glabrous umbels. Kurz, who unites them as varieties 

 describes the fruit as obovate-globular, of the size of a small cherry, and the thick 

 fleshy entire smooth cup as f in. diam. Meissner's Var. ft. tavoyana is the form 

 with short leaves, and var. acutata the narrower more acute leaved one. The Canara 

 plant referred to the latter is L. Stocksii, nob. 



47. T. Helferi, Hook.f. ; glabrous, leaves 3 in. alternate penninerved 

 very coriaceous ovate or elliptic-ovate acuminate smooth and brown when dry 

 above beneath pale brown with 4-6 very slender nerves and very faint 

 reticulations, umbels solitary pedicelled 4-fld., bracts 4 glabrous outer largest, 

 sepals 6 glabrous, stamens 12. 



TENASSEEIM (or Andaman Islands), Heifer (Kew Distrib. 4307). 



Branches woody; bark rough, whitish. Leaves very finely acuminate, margins 

 slightly recurved when dry, base acute ; petiole - in., very slender. Umbels (male) 

 about in. diam. ; bracts black when dry ; pedicel in., slender, decurved. Sepals 

 subequal. Filaments quite glabrous except at the base; anthers short. Ocary 



