186 CXXYIII. LAURINE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) [-Lindera* 



12. Ii. heterophylla, Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1.246; "branches 

 robust, shoots and leaves beneath rusty-tomentose, leaves deciduous 2-4 in. 

 entire or 3-lobed at the tip, old coriaceous orbicular ovate or oblong obtuse or 

 subacute quintuple-nerved at the rounded or cordate base, umbels subsessile 

 many-fld., flowers .in the axils of large imbricating deciduous villous mem- 

 branous bracts, fruit ellipsoid. Benzoin sericeum and Lindera triloba ?, 

 Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. $ T. Daphnidium bifarium in part, Meissn. in D'C. 

 I. c. 231 (not ofNees). Hamamelidea, Griff. Itin. Notes, 147. 



EASTERN TEMPEEATE HIMALAYA ; Sikkim, alt. 8-10,000 ft., J. D. H. Bhotaii ; 

 at Oongar, alt. 9-10,000 ft., Griffith. 



A shrub or small tree, with fflexuous branches, flowering when leafless ; buds 

 clothed with imbricate scales. Leaves 2-4 iu. broad, old brown when dry ; above 

 rather shining with sunk nerves and reticulations, beneath with very strong nerves ; 

 lobes if present, triangular, subacute ; petiole |-| in., stout. Umbels (or contracted 

 spikes) f-| in. diam., with 3-5 very coriaceous imbricating scales at the base ; each 

 flower in the axil of a subspathulate or obovate-oblong concave bract that is villous 

 with long hairs at the back ; pedicels short, villous, as is the base of the perianth. 

 Sepals linear-oblong, subsilkily hairy. Stamens 9, filaments very short, glabrous ; 

 3 or more 2-glandular. Fruit immature. 



13. Zi. Neesiana, JBentk. in Gen. Plant, iii. 164; quite glabrous, 

 leaves deciduous 3-7 in. membranous ovate acute or acuminate triple- 

 nerved at the cuneate or cordate base, umbels solitary or clustered pedi- 

 celled 5-7-fld., bracts 4 membranous glabrous, fruit small globose. Kurz 

 For. Fl. ii. 309. Aperula Neesiana, Blume Mus. Bot. i. 366 ; Meissn. in 

 DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 241. Benzoin Neesianum, Nees in Wall. PI. As. Ear. 

 ii. 63, and Syst. Laurin. 498. Tetrantfcera Neesiana, Watt. Cat. 2538. 

 T. prunifolia, Wall. mss. ? Laurus macrophylla, Don Prodr. 64; Meissn. 

 I. c. 258. 



TEMPEEATE HIMALAYA ; Nepal, WallicTi ; Sikkim, alt. 6-8000 ft., J. D. S. 



A very spicy tree ; shoots terete, smooth, usually quite black when dry, often very 

 stout. Leaves 1^-4J in. diam., smooth and reticulated above when dry, more or less 

 glaucous beneath with 4-6 pairs of nerves besides the basal which do not reach the 

 middle of the leaf, and slender distant reticulated ones. Umbels unopened, globose, 

 ^ in. diam., on slender pedicels ^-| in. ; outer bracts hemispheric, inner narrower ; 

 flowers on tomentose pedicels, \ in. diam., green. Sepals orbicular, nearly glabrous, 

 very membranous. Stamens 9, filaments short, glabrous, inner 2-glandular. Fruit 

 in. diam., seated on the unaltered perianth with fragments of the sepals. This has 

 much the habit of L. oxyphylla and Litscea polyantha. 



Var. ? Griffithii', bark of branchlets quite white, umbels racemose on a short 

 slender peduncle. Mishrai Mts., Griffith. 



SPECIES OF UNDETERMINED SECTION. 



14. Xi. bootanica, Meusn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 245 ; branches stout pale 



grey deeply grooved (by contraction of the bark), annual shoots herbaceous 

 Lack when dry, leaves (young) scattered deciduous membranous 3-5 in. penni- 

 nerved lanceolate acuminate densely softly tomentose beneath narrowed 

 into the \ in. slender petiole, buds ovoid large with very broad densely 

 silky scales, umbels of fern. fl. on a stout glabrous \ in. peduncle, flowers 

 8-10 on stout villously silky or tomentose pedicels, perianth-tube cam- 

 panulate villous, lobes 6 or more unequal oblong erect glabrous, staminodes 

 on the top of the tube narrow spathulate exserted slightly hairy, some with 

 pedicelled glands, ovary ovoid sunk in the perianth-tube, stigma sessile ?. 



BHOTAN, Griffith (919 a) (Kew Distrib. 4325). A few very imperfect male 

 flowers are scattered among the females. They are in a broken condition, have a very 

 short perianth-tube, and short filaments, and 2-celled oblong anthers. 



