Lindera.~\ cxxvni. LAURINE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) 185 



young leaves fulvous- or rusty-hairy or tomentose, leaves persistent 3-4 in. 

 ovate- or elliptic-lanceolate caudate-acuminate triple-nerved almost to the tip, 

 flowers minute in very short subglobose solitary or clustered spikes bracteate 

 and 2-bracteolate, bracteoles large the pair enclosing single flowers, fruit 

 globose seated on the 6-cleft perianth-tube. Daphnidium caudatum, Nees 

 in Wall. PI. As. Ear. ii. 63, and Syst. Laurin. 608 ; Meis'sn. in DO. Prodr. 

 xv. 1. 230 ; Kurz For. FL ii. 307. Tetranthera caudata, Wall. Cat. 2566. 



KHASIA MTS., alt. 4-5000 ft., Wallich, Griffith, &c. MARTABAN and TENAS- 

 SEEIM, about 6000 ft., Kurz. 



A small slender tree. Leaves brown when dry, subglaucous beneath with strong 

 nerves and cross-nervules, thinly coriaceous, opaque above, base subacute; petiole 

 slender, ^ in. Flowers distinctly spicate on a very short tomentose rachis, each sessile 

 in the axil of a small bract and enclosed in two concave pubescent rather thin 

 bracteoles ; flower and bracteole about -^ in. long. Perianth villous within and with- 

 out at the base. Sepals 6, membranous, subequal. Stamens 9, villous, 3 inner 2- 

 glandular (in the female 6 short filaments, each with 2 very large glands). Ovary 

 glabrous with a stout style and very large discoid stigma. Fruit | in. diam. The 

 single flowers being bracteate recalls Actinodaphne sikkimensis. 



10. Xi. pulcherrima, Benth. in Gen. Plant, iii. 164; glabrous except 

 the silky buds, leaves persistent 4-5 in. elliptic-oblong -ovate or -lanceolate 

 caudate-acuminate triple-nerved -pale or glaucous beneath, umbels 5-6-fld. 

 enclosed in 4-6 large concave imbricating deciduous bracts, fruit ellipsoid. 

 Daphnidium pulcherrimum, Nees in Wall. PL As. jRar. ii. 63, and Syst. 

 Laurin. 610; Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 229; Brand. For. J<7. 383 ; 

 Kurz For. FL ii. 306 ; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 312. 



TEMPEBATE HIMALAYA ; from Kumaon, alt. 5-8000 ft., to Sikkim and Bhotan, 

 nit. 4-9000 ft. KHASIA MTS., alt. 5-60CO ft. MAETABAN ; on hills ascending to 

 6000 ft., Kurz. DISTEIB. Munnipore. 



A large tree ; branchlets hoary. Leaves membranous or thinly coriaceous, 

 greenish when dry, minutely reticulate above with 3 slender raised nerves, beneath 

 tinely reticulate, caudate tip often 1 in. long and very slender; petiole slender, J 4 in. 

 Clusters quite sessile, globose; bracts pale, rather thin, concave, subsilky, outer 

 smaller ; flowers on short silky-tomentose pedicels ; perianth silky. Sepals 6, oblong, 

 membranous, equal or subequal. Stamens 9, filaments short, nearly glabrous; of 

 female reduced to 2 glandular filaments. Ovary and style pubescent ; stigma very 

 large. Fruit $ in. long; perianth wholly deciduous, or rarely fragments remain; 

 pedicel slender, ^- in., not thickened at the tip. 



11. Xi. melastomacea, Benth. in Gen. Plant, iii. 164 ; quite glabrous, 

 leaves persistent 2-3 in. coriaceous obovate- or oblanceolate-oblong shortly 

 obtusely acuminate triple-nerved not glaucous beneath, umbels 3-5-fld. 

 sessile solitary or clustered, bracts 4, fruit ellipsoid. Daphuidium melasto- 

 maceum, Nees in Wall. PL As. Rar. ii. 63, and Syst. Laurin. 607; Meissn. 

 in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 228. Laurus cuspidata, Don Prodr. 64. 



A shrub or small tree, with stiff erect leafy branches. Leaves coriaceous, greenish 

 or brown when dry, smooth above with 3 strong nerves and indistinct nervules,- the 

 latter very slender and indistinct beneath, base narrowed into the very short (- in.) 

 petiole. Umbels globose in bud, usually crowded and sessile in the leaf axils, some- 

 times very shortly stoutly pedicelled ; bracts very coriaceous, hemispheric, glabrous; 

 flowers on villously silky pedicels, villous within. Sepals 6, equal or unequal. Sta- 

 mens 9, filaments hairy, 3 inner 2-glandular. Ovary not seen. Fruit % in. long, 

 seated on the persistent or broken up hardly changed perianth-tube ; pedicel J-| in. 



Sect. IY. Sassafrimorpha, Benth. Leaves deciduous, triple- or 

 quintuple-nerved. 



