cxxvin. LAURINE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) 175 



narrowed towards the base, pale brown when dry, above smooth with slender raised 

 nerves ; petiole - in., stout. Male racemes axillary and below the leaves, numerous, 

 rachis and pedicels very slender, the latter often in. ; umbels quite glabrous ; bracts 

 rather membranous ; flowers sessile. Perianth-tube turbinate, silky ; sepals 4 nearly 

 glabrous, very unequal. Stamens about 14, filaments slender hairy. Female racemes 

 1 in. long ; umbels shortly pedicelled ; flower not seen. Fruit (unripe) apparently 

 sunk in the globose or at length hemispheric smooth perianth-tube, which with its 

 short pedicel is about in. long; edge of mouth thin, obscurely lobed; ripe fruit 

 "oblong 6-7 lines long seated in the 3-5-cleft large fleshy cup," Kurz. The raised 

 nerves of the upper surface of the dried leaves is in contrast to those of the three last 

 species. 



53. Ii. DXaingrayi, HooJc.f. ; quite glabrous except the umbels, leaves 

 7-16 in. alternate very long-petioled penninerved rigidly coriaceous oblong 

 or oblanceolate obtuse or acute, nerves 10-18 pair strong beneath, with 

 transverse nervules, male umbels in racemes 5-6 in. long hoary 6-fld. long- 

 pedicelled. 



MALACCA, Maingay (Keiv Distrib. 1264, 1273). 



Branches woody, bark blackish when dry. Leaves 2-5 in. broad, brownish and 

 shining above with impressed nerves, paler beneath and finely reticulated between the 

 rather distant nervules ; base narrowed ; petiole 2 in., slender. Racemes from below 

 the leaves, numerous ; rachis rather slender, arched or drooping, nearly glabrous ; 

 umbels in bud globose, g- in. diam., expanded ^-| in. diam. ; bracts 4, coriaceous, 

 concave, subeqtial, white and hoary; pedicel - % in. long; flowers pedicelled. 

 Perianth with a funnel-shaped tube, tomentose, sepals 6-8. Stamens about 12, fila- 

 ments long slender glabrous ; anthers linear-oblong. Ovary sunk in the tube of 

 the perianth (imperfect). Fruit unknown. 



54. Zi. Panamonja, Ham. in Wall. Cat. 2553 (Tetranthera-) ; quite 

 glabrous except the tomentose racemes, leaves 5-12 in. alternate penninerved 

 coriaceous oblong or lanceolate acuminate reticulate beneath between the 

 10-12 pair of slender nerves, male umbels in racemes 5-7 in. long 6-fld. 

 long-pedicelled, female in shorter racemes. Tetranthera Panamonja, Sam.; 

 Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 197 ; Kurz For. Fl. 302. T. Panamanja, 

 Nees in Wall. PI. As. Bar. ii. 67, and Syst. Laurin. 561 and 677 ; ? Wight 

 Ic. 1. 1836. 



ASSAJI Plains, Wallich, &c. TENASSEEIM frequent, Griffith, Kurz. 



A large tree ; young shoots puberulous. Leaves firmly coriaceous, 2-3 \ in. broad, 

 pale brown when dry, rarely oblanceolate, base acute* or cuneate; petiole -1 in. 

 Racemes solitary or in pairs from below the leaves, slender, drooping ; umbels in bud 

 globose, - in. diam., tawny-tomentose ; pedicels -| in. ; bracts 4, subequal, coria- 

 ceous, concave ; flowers 6, sessile. . Perianth tomentose, tube funnel-shaped ; sepals 6, 

 oblong. Stamens hirsute at the base. Stigma dilated. " Fruit broader than long, 

 almost didymous, size of a pea, 2,-seeded, seated on an entire small cup-like expansion 

 of the perianth-base," Kurz. The description of the fruit is from Kurz ; that it 

 is called 2-seeded is no doubt an oversight. The Tenasserim specimens (var. 0. longi- 

 racemosa, Meissn. 1. c.) have longer racemes and larger flowers than the Assam ones. 

 In Herb. Wight there is a plant in very young flower, figured in his Icones (t. 1836), 

 from Courtallam, called T. Panamanja, which differs much in habit from that species. 

 The leaves are very coriaceous elliptic acute shining above, petiole in. 



55. Ii. oleoides, Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 195 (Tetranthera) ; 

 quite glabrous except the tomentose racemes, branches very stout, leaves 

 3-4 in. alternate penninerved very coriaceous elliptic tip obtuse or rounded 

 base acute beneath not glaucous faintly reticulate with 8-10 pair of slender 

 nerves, petiole stout, male racemes short erect, umbels shortly pedicelled, 

 fruit globose seated on the broad turbinate subsessile perianth-tube. 



