LitsceaJ] cxxvin. LAURINEJG. (J. D. Hooker.) 173 



not seen. Fruit unknown. A very distinct species, of which the materials are 

 scanty. 



c. Species of Ceylon. 



48. Zi. glaberrima, Thwaites Enum. 255 (Tetranthera) ; glabrous or 

 nearly so, branches slender, leaves 2-7 in. alternate penninerved- thinly 

 coriaceous greenish when dry oblong-lanceolate or oblanceolate acuminate 

 smooth above very finely reticulate (rarely puberulous) beneath with 6-8 

 pair of very strong arched nerves that form large loops within the margin 

 lowest pair shortest, umbels in very short racemes or fascicles 4-fld., bracts 

 4-5 glabrous, fruit oblong seated on the small dilated cup-shaped perianth- 

 tube. Tetranthera nervosa, Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 187. T. longifolia 

 var. y., Thwaites I. c. T. Iseta, var. y. ? glauca, Meissn. I. c. 187. Cylico- 

 daphne Thwaitesii, y. angustata, Meissn. I. c. 208. 



CEYLON ; in the Central Province, alt. 4000 ft., Walker, &c. 



A small tree ; branches glabrous or puberulous. Leaves variable in size, opaque 

 above, glaucous or not beneath, base acute or obtuse ; petiole -| in., glabrous or 

 puberulous. Umbels few, in. diam. ; pedicel short, slender ; common peduncle, if 

 present, not % in. long; outer bracts very concave, membranous, innermost narrow ; 

 flowers shortly pedicelled ; pedicels silkily villous, as are the perianth -tube and bases 

 of the sepals. Sepals unequal, membranous, linear-oblong, sparsely hairy, villous at 

 the base within. Stamens 8 ; filaments very slender, hairy ; anthers broad, 2 or 3 

 2-glandular. Ovary in male a slender minute column with no stigma. Fruit in. 

 diam.; base of perianth as broad, on a thickened pedicel. The remarkable nervation 

 distinguishes this. Meissner's T. nervosa vars. a. and fi. are individuals only. 



49. Xi. ovalifolia, Thivaites Enum. 256 (Tetranthera) ; quite glabrous, 

 branches robust, leaves 2-4 in. alternate penninerved rather long-petioled 

 thickly coriaceous brown when dry broadly oblong orbicular or elliptic 

 rarely ovate-lanceolate rounded at both ends or base acute, very finely 

 reticulate beneath with 6-10 very'faint free nerves, umbels clustered very 

 shortly stoutly pedicelled 5-6-fld., bracts 4 pubescent, sepals 6 (4-8), fruit 

 subglobose seated on the thickened cupular perianth- tube. Lepidadenia 

 ovalifolia, Wight Ic. t. 1839. Cylicodaphne Thwaitesii, Meissn. in DC. 

 Prodr. xv. 1. 208, var. a. only. 



CEYLON ; Central Province, alt. 2-7000 ft., Walker, &c. 



A tree, 30-40 ft. ; branches rather rough. Leaves very variable, rigid, flat, above 

 smooth or shining with very obscure nerves, beneath pale or dark brown opaque or 

 rather shining with a stout midrib, base rarely cordate; petiole stout, -f in. 

 Umbels sometimes clustered on a short stout peduncle, ^ in. diam. ; bracts very 

 coriaceous ; flowers on short villous pedicels. Sepals 6 in the flowers I have examined 

 (4-8 according to Thwaites), oblong, glabrous. Stamens 9-12 (8-16 or more, Thwaites), 

 inner 2-glandular; filaments short, sparsely hairy; anthers broad. Fruit - J in. 

 diam. in a large fleshy shortly stoutly pedicelled almost hemispheric cup. Some speci- 

 mens from Walker, doubtfully referred to Cylicodaphne Gardneri by Meissner, 

 have elliptic leaves with the surface convex above between the deeply sunk nerves, and 

 correspondingly concave beneath; others, as Thwaites' C.P. No. 10 and 351, are exactly 

 intermediate between this and L. iteodaphne. I refer here Thwaites' C.P. 2487, 

 which has longer petioles than L. iteodaphne. 



50. Ii. iteodaphne, Thwaites Enum. 255 (Tetranthera) ; glabrous 

 except the pubescent umbels, leaves alternate penninerved coriaceous shortly 

 petioled oblong or linear-oblong and obtuse or linear-lanceolate and acumi- 

 nate smooth above beneath finely reticulate glaucous or not, nerves 6-10 

 pair very slender, umbels small few or solitary clustered 45-fld., pedicels 



