Linden.] cxxvm. LAURINE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) 187 



15. Zi. Griffith!!, Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 245 ; branches slender 

 woody glabrous, leaves much too young for description -4 in. long deci- 

 duous penninerved lanceolate acute silky, female fl. white odorous in very 

 small axillary subsessile nodding clusters very shortly pedicelled and pedicels 

 silky tomentose,. perianth ^ in. diam., tube very short obconic, sepals 6 broad 

 glabrous, staminodes very short with large glands glabrous, ovary glabrous, 

 style short, stigma discoid. 



BHOTAN, above Tongsa, alt. 8500 ft., Griffith (Kew Distrib. 4334). Griffith 

 describes the flowers and bracts as white. 



16. L. ? sikkimensis, Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 245; a bush 

 15 ft. high, branchlets woody rugose, shoots inflorescence and young leaves 

 beneath clothed with long golden red villous hairs, leaves (young) 2-2^ in. 

 scattered deciduous penninerved membranous obovate-oblong narrowed into 

 a short petiole, tip rounded, nerves 6-8 pair very slender, umbels subsessile 

 few-fld., fern. fl. very shortly pedicelled, perianth-tube short, sepals 6 orbi- 

 cular, staminodes very short almost reduced to glands, ovary ovoid glabrous, 

 style short, stigma small. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA ; Lachen, alt. 11-12,000 ft., J. D. H. This is quite unlike 

 any other species of Lindera. The adult leaves probably differ a good deal from 

 the young here described. 



17. Daphnidium argenteum, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 307; a deciduous 

 tree, shoots silvery silky hairy, leaves 3-6 in. lanceolate to broad-Ian ceolate 

 acuminate at both ends firmly membranous glabrous above appressed sil- 

 very-pubescent beneath penninerved laxly reticulate o^ both surfaces, petiole 

 glabresceiit or silvery -pubescent -$- in., flowers on very short tomentose 

 pedicels forming a short densely tomentose raceme involucred by pubescent 

 concave bracts at the base, perianth appressed pubescent filaments almost 

 glabrous, anthers 2-celled. (Description from Kurz.) 



MAKTABAN and Eastern slopes of the PEGU Yomah, Kurz. 



18. Daphnidium lancifolium, Thwaites Enum. 257; Meissn. in 

 DC. Prodr. xvTl. 229 ; " a tree young parts and inflorescence fulvous silky, 

 leaves (5-7) more or less crowded at the ends of the branches 2-3 by -in. 

 lanceolate acutely acuminate smooth or minutely rugulose above white and 

 pruinose beneath triple-nerved, base acute, lateral nerves hardly reaching 

 the middle of the leaf, petiole i- in., buds (umbels) 3-4-fld. with 4 scales 

 sessile on the branches below the leaves, flowers subsessile T 'o i n ' long-" 

 Thwaites. 



CEYLON ; Central Province, Hapootelle district, Thwaites. 



Of this its author says it is apparently near D. melastomaceum, but the few leaves 

 I have seen *do not bear this out ; he says that he has seen only a single specimen 

 mixed with Actinodaphne stenophylla, which it greatly resembles. The anthers are 

 not described, and I suspect that if 4-celled this is a Litscea, and that the 4 scales 

 are the involucral bracts. On the specimen sent to Kew Thwaites says that he has 

 seen neither flower nor fruit. 



11. CASSVTHA, Linn. 



Filiform twining parasites, adhering to their hosts by suckers. Leaves 

 minute scales, or 0. Flowers minute, 2-sexual or dimorphic ? spiked capitate 

 or racemose, 3-bracteolate. Perianth-tube short and globose or (often in 

 the same species) as long as the limb and turbinate ; segments 6, 3 outer 

 smaller. Perfect stamens 9, filaments of 1st series eglandular with 2-celled 



