180 cxxvui. LAURINE.E. (J. P. Hooker.) [Litscea. 



as in locality, Roxburgh's involucrata is better referred to zeylanica. Leaves with' 

 transversely striolate uervules occur in all forms. 



L, umbrosa proper; leaves small elliptic rarely 3 by j|-l in., nerves 2-3 pair 

 above the basal, fruit globose. L. umbrosa ft. khasiana, Meissn. in part. Kbasia Mts., 

 alt. 5-7000 ft. 



Var. impunctata; leaves larger broader 3-6 by l|2 in. L. umbrosa ft. khasiana, 

 Meissn. in part, and L. foliosa var. impunctata, Meissn., with oblong fruit, from 

 Khasia, alt. 5-7000 ft., and L. striolata, Meissn., with globose fruit, from ISikkim, 

 alt. 7000 ft. 



Var. consimilis ; leaves more membranous oblong-lanceolate 3-5 by 1-1;} in. often 

 more glaucous beneath with usually many pairs of nerves above the basal, fruit 

 globose. Kashmir to Nepal. There is a good specimen of this in Herb. Hooker, 

 received from Wallich in 1821, but it is not in the Wallichian Herbarium of the 

 Linnajan Society. 



65. Zi. IVEannii, King in Herb. Calcutt. ; branches slender, and petioles 

 and pedicels pubescent, leaves scattered 2-3 in. triple-nerved elliptic-lan- 

 ceolate obtusely caudate- acuminate minutely impressed punctate on both 

 surfaces nerves beneath, very slender, fruiting clusters sessile, fruit minute 

 globose mucronate seated on the remains of the unaltered perianth. 



KHASIA or JYNTEA HILLS, G. Mann. 



The small leaves with faint nerves and small mucronate fruit about in. diam. 

 well distinguish this species, which may be a Litscea as Dr. King has named it, but 

 without bracts and flowers it is impossible to say that it is not an Actinodaphne or 

 Lindera. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



species, from Upper Assam, Mishmi Hills at Choon^ra, Griffith. 

 Leaves only ; these resemble L. Wallichii in form, in the bright red-brown coriaceous 

 shining surfaces covered with fine reticulations, but differ in having 20-30 pairs of 

 nerves; they are 12-18 by 5-9 in., oblong, subacute or acuminate, shortly petioled, 

 and as well as the branches perfectly glabrous. 



L. VELUTINA, Slume Mus. Sot. i. 376; Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 1. 181 ; from 

 India, Heyne. It is impossible from the meagre description to say what this may 

 be. 



LITS^A rugosa, Kurz in Flora 1872, 171 (Tetranthera ? ochrascens, Miquel FL 

 Ind. Bat. Suppl. i. 146, 363. Sideroxylon ? rugosum, Wall. Cat. 4158. S. 

 Wallichianum, G. Don Gen. Syst. iv. 28; DC. Prodr. viii. 185), from Penang. 

 Wallich's specimens have neither flower nor fruit, and do not resemble any Litscea 

 known to me. MiquePs Tetranthera ? ochrascens is a Sumatran plant described 

 from specimens without flower or fruit. Wallich's S. ? rugosum was overlooked when 

 the genus was worked up for Vol. III. of this Flora. 



LEPIDADENIA Wightiana, Nees Syst. Laurin. 583 ; Wight Ic. t. 1837. Tetran- 

 thera Roxbuvghii, Hassk. PL Jav. 243, excl. syn. (fid. Miquel). This is correctly 

 referred by Meissner to Blume's (not Persoon's) L. sebifera (Cylicodapbne sebifera, 

 Blume in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 202). Wight's figure is taken from a single bad specimen 

 without locality, and it so precisely accords with Javanese ones,, that I cannot without 

 further, evidence believe it to be from the Nilghiris, where Wight supposes he once 

 gathere.d it, but where neither he nor any other collector has since found it. 



LAUEUS umbellata, Ham. in Don Prodr. 64, from Nepal. Meissner (in DC. 

 Prodr. xv. 1. 258) doubtfully suggests this being L. tomentosaor laurifolia (sebifera, 

 Pers.), but the description is far too meagre to admit of any identification. The 

 anthers should be 2-celled, for Don keeps it in Laurus. 



12. DODECADENXA, Nees. 



Evergreen trees. Leaves scattered, coriaceous, xjenninerved J buds 



