182 cxxvin. LAURINE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Lindera. 



absence of bracts it is not possible to say it is not a Tetranthera, but it resembles no 

 other, and the flowers are quite like those of a Dodecadenia. 



13. LINDERA, Thunl. 



Shrubs or trees, often deciduous. Leaves alternate or subopposite,. 

 penni- or 3-5-nerved ; buds perulate or naked. Involucres 4-6- or more-fld., 

 sessile or pedicelled, fascicled or racemose ; bracts 2-5. Flowers dioecious, 

 pedicelled, umbellate or capitate. Perianth-tube very short; segments 7-9, 

 subequal, small, petaloid. Stamens usually 9, 3-seriate, filaments narrow, of 

 1st and 2nd series eglandular, of 3rd (rarely of 2nd) 2-glandu.lar ; staminodes 

 in fl. ? 9 ; anthers 2-celled, all introrse. Fruit globose or ovoid, seated on 

 the unaltered or disciformentire or 6-toothed perianth-tube. Species about 

 60, Tropical and Eastern Asia and N. America. 



I follow Bentham (in Gen. Plank) in bringing together under one genus all the 

 Indian 1-celled Litseaceous plants, and have for the most part arranged them under 

 the sections he has proposed. I expect, however, that when more complete specimens 

 of this group are available, several of the genera now included under Lindera will be 

 restored much upon the lines I here indicate as sections. 



Sect. I. Aperula. Leaves persistent, penninerved. Umbels long- 

 pedicelled ; bracts 4, involucriform, 6-12-fld. Stamens 9. 



1. Zi. assamica, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 308; branchlets and leaves beneath 

 rusty- or tawny-hirsute and pubescent, leaves persistent 4-6 in. lanceolate 

 or elliptic-lanceolate acuminate" penninerved, umbels 6-9-fld., pedicels slender 

 solitary or fascicled on a short common peduncle, bracts 4 glabrous, fruit 

 subglobose. Aperula assamica, Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 240, in part. 

 A. Meissneri, Herb. Calcutt. 



EASTEEN HIMALAYA; Bhotan, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 4316); Sikkim,alt. 7-9000 ft., 

 J. D. H., &c. MABTABAN HILLS, on the Nettoung, Kurz. 



A small tree or shrub, 10-30 ft. ; shoots finely pubescent. Leaves 1-2 in. diain., 

 coriaceous, smooth above with impressed nerves, beneath with 6-10 pairs of strong 

 nerves cross-nervules and reticulation, base very acute ; petiole $% in. Umbels, 

 male about f in. diam. when in flower ; pedicel -1 in., very slender, nearly gla- 

 brous; flowers on slender silky pedicels }- in. ; fern, umbels smaller with shorter 

 pedicels and shorter pedicelled flowers; bracts hemispherip. Sepals 6, subequal. 

 Stamens 9, filaments hairy, 3-inner 2-glandular. Fruit nearly in. long. Foliage a 

 good deal like that of Litscea elongata. 



2. Zi. Meissneri, King mss. glabrous except the silky inflorescence, 

 leaves persistent 2-3 in. ovate or ovate-lanceolate caudate-acuminate with 

 5-8 pair of very slender nerves, umbels about 9-fld., pedicels very slender 

 racemed on a slender common peduncle, bracts 4 membranous. Aperula 

 assamica, Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xiii. 1. 240, in part. 







ASSAM ; on the Nuku Hills, Simons. 



Closely allied to L. Meissneriana, but the branchlets are smooth and bark as in 

 L. oxyphylla, the leaves are glabrous, much smaller, more ovate, caudate-acuminate 

 and hardly reticulate beneath, the petioles more slender and the umbels smaller. 

 The specimen is a solitary one in male fl. Meissner is mistaken in uniting it with 

 Griffith's 1171, and giving Jenkins as its collector. It is one of several curious plants 

 found by Simons in the Nuku Hills, where no one has since collected that I know 

 of. King (in Herb. Calcutt.) observed that Meissner has included two species under 

 his A. assamica, and suggested the name of Meissneri for one of them. 



