174- cxxvin. LAURINE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Litscsa. 



very short and usually stout, sepals usually 4, fruit oblong on the small 

 cupular swollen perianth-tube. ? Tetranthera iteodaphne, Nees Syst. Laurin. 

 542. Cylicodaphne Thwaitesii, Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 208 (excl. var. a. 

 ovalifolia). 



CEYLON ; in the Central Province, ascending to 6000 ft., Walker, &c. 



A very puzzling plant, of which the specimens are not sufficient for a full descrip- 

 tion. I am uncertain as to its being the T. iteodaphne of Nees, whose description is 

 insufficient, and who further describes the sepals as 6, and the bracts as strigose. I 

 find only 4 sepals, and rarely more than 8 stamens. Thwaites sends three forms. 



1. Leaves 3-4 by 1-1 in. oblong or narrowly oblong obtuse or acute dark brown 

 above when dry, base acute obtuse or rounded. Adams Peak (C.P. 10, 357, 729, 

 2605). Cylicodaphue Walkeri, Meissn. I. c. This approaches L. ovalifolia, Thvv. 



2. Leaves 3 5 in. oblong-lanceolate acute or acuminate pale above more so and 

 almost glaucous beneath, petiole very short. 



3. Leaves 4-6 by f-1 in. linear lanceolate acuminate pale on both surfaces, petiole 

 short, male umbels solitary on slender pedicels ^ in. long, fern, fruiting perianth 

 smaller. Var. 0., Thwaites (C.P. 360). C. iteodaphne 7. angustata, Meissner L c. 

 in part. 



Another form, sent by Walker only, has leaves 5-6 by 1 in., oblong-lanceolate, grey- 

 brown beneath with often 12-15 pairs of more conspicuous nerves. I assume it to be 

 T. Walkeri, Meissn. Thwaites' numbers are very confusing, because of the badness 

 of most of the specimens, and because those in different herbaria are attached to dis- 

 similar specimens. I have hence not quoted some of them, or Meissner's references 

 to them. C.P. 729 in Herb. Hook, is quite undeterminable : probably referable to 

 var. 2. 



** Umbels racemed. 



f Leaves quite glabrous beneath (except L. Stocksii). (See also L. 

 Gardneri.) 



51. L. glabrata, Wall. Gat. 2543 (Tetranthera); quite glabrous 

 except the silkily hoary inflorescence, leaves 5-7 in. alternate penninerved 

 coriaceous linear- or elliptic-oblong or -lanceolate acute or acuminate faintly 

 reticulate beneath with 10-12 pairs of nerves, male in racemes 3-5 in. long 

 6-fld., pedicels long. Tetranthera ? glabrata, Wall. ; Nees in Wall. PL As. 

 Ear. ii. 67, and Syat. Laurin. 560 ; Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 197. 

 Laurus salicifolia ?, Wight mss. 



DECCAN PENINSULA ; Dindygul Hills, alt. 3000 ft., Wight. 



Very near L. Panamonja, and perhaps only a variety of that plant, or rather of 

 its Tenasserim larger umbelled form ; but the flowers, which are in bud only, are 

 densely silky (not tomentose), the racemes less tomentose, the stamens more hairy ; 

 and in the absence of developed flowers and fruit I hesitate to unite them. Their 

 foliage is very similar, but the umbels of the Deccan plant are rather larger. 



52. Xi. nitida, Soxb. ex Wall. Cat. 2540 (Tetranthera); quite glabrous' 

 leaves 4-10 in. alternate penninerved thinly coriaceous oblanceolate or 

 obovate-oblong' tip rounded retuse' or subacute, faintly loosely reticulate 

 beneath with 10-14 pair of very slender nerves, male umbels long-pedicelled 

 4r-5-fld. in slender glabrous racemes 2-4 in. long, female racemes much 

 shorter, fruit ellipsoid sunk in the enlarged subspherical shortly pedicelled 

 perianth-tube. Tetranthera nitida, Roxb. Nees in Wall. PI. As. Rar. ii. 

 67 and iii. 31, and Syst. Laurin. 556 ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 302. T. Baula, 

 Herb. Ham. Cylicodaphne nitida, Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 203. 



EASTEBN HIMALAYA ; Bhotan, Griffith. ASSAM, near Goalpara, Hamilton. 

 SILHET, Wallich. PEGU, at Eangoon, Wallich, McClelland. 



A timber tree ; branchlets woody, angular, bark pale. Leaves 2-3 in. broad, much 



