Dodecadenia.'} cxxvni. LA.UHIXE/E. (J. D. Hooker.) 181 



perulate. Flowers 2-sexual, subsolitary or 2-3 together, subsessile or 

 panicled and pedicelled, each with 4-5 imbricating bracts. Perianth-tube 

 short; segments 6-9, subequal, spreading. Perfect stamens 10-15 ; filaments 

 slender, o f ,1st and 2nd series eglandular, of 3rd and 4th 2-glandular; 

 anthers all 4-celled, introrse. Fruit seated on the dilated thick flattish 

 perianth-tube, stoutly pedicelled. 



1. 1>. grandiflora, Nees in Wall PI. As. Rar. ii. 63, and Syst. 

 Laurin. 588 ; branchlets and young leaves silky-tomentose, leaves elliptic- 

 lanceolate acuminate, flowers subsolitary, ovary hirsute. Meissn. in DC. 

 Prodr. xv. 1. 210 ; Brandts For. Fl. 381 ; Kurz For. FL ii. 304. Tetran- 

 thera grandiflora, Wall. Cat. 2544. ? Laurus macrophylla, Don Prodr. 64. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA; Kumaon, alt. 8000 ft., Blinlcworth, &c. BUBMA, on 

 the Khakyeu Hills, Kurt. Nepal, Wallich. 



Branches rugged, shoots subsilkily tomentose. Leaves 3-4 in. (rarely 6-8), thinly 

 coriaceous, minutely reticulate on botli surfaces, opaque beneath ; nerves 6-8 pair, 

 very slender ; petiole \-\ in., slender, young tomentose. Flowers | in. diam. ; 

 pedicels very short, covered with the scars of bracts which are oblong silky ^ in. long. 

 Perianth- segments oblong, obtuse, hoary within. Filaments slender, exserted, villous. 

 Ovary hirsute; stigma oblique, lobulate. Fruit | in. long, ellipsoid; peduncle stout, 

 in.; perianth-tube discoid, ^ in. diam., entire. Meissuer (in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 258) 

 suggests this being Don's Laurus macrophylla, but Don's description is too meagre to 

 .admit of any identification. 



2. D. G-riffithii, Hook.f. ; braiichlets glabrous, leaves elliptic-lanceo- 

 late acuminate, flowers subsolitary, ovary glabrous, style hirsute. 



BHOTAN, Griffith (Keto Distrib. 4312). 



Very similar to D. grandiflora, but the braiichlets and ovary are quite glabrous, 

 -and the leaves much more strongly reticulate between the nerves beneath. I have 

 seen no fruit. Bracts 7 to each flower. Sepals 6, coriaceous, oblong, obtuse, silky 

 without, glabrous within ; tube turbinate. Stamens 10, filaments all villous ; 4 of 

 ithe longer eglandular ; 2 of the longer 2-glandular ; 4 short ones 2-glandular. 



3. D. Ppaniculata, Hook.f. quite glabrous, leaves elliptic-ovate or 

 oblong acute or acuminate coriaceous, flowers in axillary panicles long- 

 pedicelled, ovary glabrous. Tetranthera chartacea, Meissn. in DC. Prodr. 

 xv. 1. 186 (the Sikkim plant only). 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, <7. D. H. ; at Mik, alt. 3000 ft., Clarke. BHOTA^ ; in woods 

 at Sasee, Griffith. DISTRIB. Mumiipore. 



A small tree, 40 ft. (Clarke) ; branches quite smooth and glabrous, rather slender. 

 Leaves 5-9 by 2-2| in., coriaceous, pale brown and rather shining above, beneath more 

 or less glaucous or white, base acute cuneate or rounded; nerves 5-10 pairs, reddish, 

 transverse nervules and reticulations distinct; petiole |-| in., rather stout. Panicles 

 l-2 in. long, axillary, spreading; branches stiff spreading with often 3 terminal 

 flowers; pedicels -J in., stiff, thickened at the tip; flowers ^ in. diam., apparently 

 2-sexual. Sepals rounded oblong, glabrous, spreading and recurved, connate at the 

 base and separating together early from the pedicel, hispid at the base within. 

 Stamens 8-10, filaments and anthers hispidulous, alternate ones shorter, all shorter 

 than the sepals ; anthers oblong, 4-celled, introrse. Staminodes about 20. Fruit 

 1-1 in. long, clavately obovoid, |-f in. broad below the rounded top ; pedicel thickened 

 into the obconic truncate calyx-tube, which is about % in. diam., drooping. A very 

 curious plant, which I hesitatingly put into Dodecadenia. Meissner included it 

 under Tetranthera, and- in Herb, Hook, has labelled it T. chartacea, Wall. ? 0. areo- 

 lata. The bracts are evidently caducous, for all are gone. Griffith in his Itinerary 

 Notes, p. 113 (n. 404), calls it a Tetranthera, and describes it as a large tree. In the 



