178 cxxvm. LAURINE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Litscca.- 



shortly thickly pedicelled perianth-tube, which is about ^ in. diam. at the mouth. 

 Meissner's locality of "Penins. Ind. Or., Wight," is erroneous. Wight's specimen is 

 from Griffith. 



Sect. Y. Neolitsaea, Benth. Leaves persistent, alternate, triple-nerved, 

 sometimes subverticillate. Umbels in sessile clusters. Perianth-segments 

 usually 4, deciduous, tube not or rarely enlarged in fruit. Stamens usually 

 6. Fruit small. LITS^SA, Nees, Meissner. TETRADENIA, Nees. (I think 

 Tetradenia, Nees, should be restored as a genus.) 



61. Zi. lanugrinosa, Nees Syst. Laurin. 634; leaves 5-12 in. alternate 

 and whorled elliptic-lanceolate or oblanceolate acuminate triple-nerved 

 softly thinly tomentose beneath soon .glabrous and glaucous, bracts and 

 flowers silkily villous, fruit oblong. Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 221 ; 

 Brand. For. Fl. 382 ; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 312. Tetranthera lanu- 

 ginosa, Wall. Cat. 2561. T. Cuipala, Don Prodr. 65. Tetradenia lanu- 

 ginosa, Nees in Wall. PI. As. Rar. ii. 64. L. ? Cuipala, Nees and Meissn. 



Outer HIMALAYA ; from Kashmir, alt. 3000 ft., to Sikkim, alt. 6000 ft. (very 

 rare in Garwhal). KHASIA MTS., Herb. Griffith. 



A small tree, terminal buds often 1 in. long. Leaves variable in size, young 

 densely clothed with long soft shining silky hairs, often 8-10 in a terminal whorl ; 

 basal nerves usually produced far beyond the middle, others 3-4 pair; petiole -f in. 

 Umbels in clusters nearly 1 in. diam., 4-fld., male fl. shortly pedicelled, fern, longer 

 pedicelled. Filaments of inner stamen with long-pedicelled glands. Fruit % in. long 

 acute at both ends, pedicel thickened at the top but not swollen upwards. I think 

 this is certainly Don's Tetr. Cuipala. 



62. Xi. fuscata, Thwaites Enum. 258; leaves 3-4 in. alternate and 

 whorled coriaceous elliptic acuminate triple-nerved, beneath white or pale 

 brown with appressed hairs at length glaucous, bracts and flowers villously 

 silky or tomentose, fruit globose on the much-thickened funnel-shaped 

 perianth- tube. Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 221. 



CEYLON; Central Province, alt. 6-8000 ft., Walker, &c. 



A tree, 20 ft. ; branchlets rusty-tomentose. Leaves 1^-2 in. broad, smooth above, 

 youngest densely clothed with silky hairs ; petiole -1 in. Clusters of male fl. f in. 

 broad ; flowers shortly pedicelled. Filaments laxly hairy ; glands of inner sub- 

 sessile. Fruit \ in. diam., pedicel |-1 in. long. Beddome (Forest Manual) regards 

 this, L. orbicularis and ambigua as vars. of L. zeylanica, but to me they appear all 

 very distiuct. 



63. Xi. zeylanica, C. fy Fr. Nees in Amcen. Bot. Bonn. Fasc. i. 58, 

 t. 5, 'ex Nees Syst. Laurin. 626 (ceylanica) ; quite glabrous or branchlets 

 and petioles faintly puberulous, leaves alternate 3-5 in. elliptic- or oblong- 

 lanceolate obtusely or acutely acuminate triple-nerved with 1-3 pairs of 

 nerves above the middle glaucous or not beneath, bracts and flowers silky, 

 fruit subglobose or oblong seated on a disciform perianth-tube with a thick- 

 ened pedicel. Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 226; Blume Mus. Bot. i. 346; 

 Brand. For. Fl. 382 ; Dalz. 8f Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 223 ; Gamble Man. Ind. 

 Timb. 311; Thwaites Enum. 257; Beddome Fl. Sylv. t. 294; Wight Ic. 

 t. 132 and 1844. L. oblonga, Nees Syst. Laurin. 678 ; Wight Ic. t. 1845. 

 L. striolata, Blume I. c. 347 ; Meissn. I. c. 223. L. foliosa, Nees I. c. 622 ; 

 Meissn. I. c. 222 (excl. var. /3.) ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 306. L. furfuracea, Nees 

 I. c. 625 ; Blume L c. 347 ; Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. i. 975. L. scrobiculata, 

 Meissn. I. c. 233. L. trinervia, Juss. in Diet. Sc. Nat. xxvii. 79. Tetradenia 

 ceylanica, furfuracea & foliosa, Nees in Wall. PL As. Rar. ii. 64 and iii. 30. 

 Tetranthera foliosa, pulcherrima (in part) & furfuracea, Wall. Cat. 2563, 



