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9. M. BOMBYCINA, King mss. ; altogether like M. Gamblei, but with the leaves 

 more or less finely pubescent beneath and hairy along the midrib, fruit 4 in. diam. 

 M. odoratissima, Wall. Cat. 2607 D. Laurus Champa, and L. boinbycina, Herb. 

 Ham. 



Cultivated in the ASSAM VALLEY and along the LowEit HIMALAYA, as far west 

 as Nepal, for silkworm -feeding. The Soom-tree of Upper Assam (Mann}. Perhaps 

 a cultivated form of M. Gamblei or Kurzii, or all forms of one. 



10. M. DTJTHIEI, King mss. ; branches and young leaves glabrous or very 

 finely silky, leaves 5-10 in. oblanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate very coriaceous 12- 

 20-nerved pale and glaucous beneath, petiole -|-1 in., flowers large ia. diam., 

 sepals linear-oblong finely silky, filaments glabrous, fruit globose ^ in. diam. in 

 often elongate drooping panicles with thickened pedicels. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA ; from Chainba, alt. 6000 ft., Thomson, to Kunawur, alt. 

 7000 ft. ; Simla, 5000 ft., Brandis, Madden ; Kumaon, alt. 2000 ft., Strachey # 

 Winterlottom. P SIKKIM, alt. 4-5000 ft., and KHASIA MTS., J. D. H., &c. (without 

 fl. or frt.). 



11. M. FETTTICOSA, Kurz (p. 140) ; leaves (young not seen) thickly coriaceous 

 glabrous, nerves 10-12 pairs very slender, petiole Hr in., panicle long-peduncled 

 hoary, flowers small i in. diam. hoary, filaments glabrous, "fruit pisiform, pedicel 

 elongate thickened," Kurz. ' 



TENASSERIM and MAETABAN, alt. 4000 ft., Griffith, Heifer, &c. 



12. M. MACEANTHA, Nees (p. 140) ; leaves glabrous, nerves 10-12 pairs, petiole 

 1-li in., panicle long- or short-peduncled hoary, flowers small ^-\ in. diam., sepals 

 tomentose, filaments villous, fruit ^-f in. diam. 



DECCAN PENINSULA; on the Ghats, ascending to 6000 ft. from the Concau 

 southwards. 



The specific name is inappropriate. In Herb. Calcutta are specimens of what 

 may be a different species from the Anamallay Hills in Travancore, with smaller 

 more obovate shorter-petioled very coriaceous leaves and short panicles. 



Species of which the fruit is unknown. 



M. BOOTANICA, Meissn. (p. 138). I have nothing to add to the description of 

 this very distinct plant. 



M. ? KHASYANA, Meissn. (p. 137). This also is a very distinct plant, with leaves 

 sometimes 11 in. long, of a thin texture, very blue beneatb, and with a rusty -brown 

 pubescence. (It may not be a Machilus.} 



M. SEEICEA, Blume (p. 139). The materials in the Calcutta Herbarium do not 

 help to clear up this species, which had, perhaps, better be suppressed. 



Under L. sericea, No. 2606 (in Herb. Hook, only) are specimens with white bark 

 on the branches, and I collected apparently the same in Sikkim ; the young leaves 

 are perfectly glabrous, as are the branches of the panicle, leaves 3-5 in. elliptic, 

 deeply punctate, flowers ^ in. diam., sepals oblong, silky on both- surfaces, filaments 

 glabrous. It approaches M. Gammieana, which has sometimes white bark, but the 

 flowers are much smaller. 



M. KINGII, Hoolc.f. A small tree common in the Khasia at 4-5000 ft. elevation 

 with very small leaf-buds, glabrous shoots and young leaves, leaves small 3-4 in. 

 elliptic-lanceolate or oblauceolate coriaceous pale and closely punctate above with a 

 deeply depressed costa, glaucous beneath with 8-10 pairs of very slander diverging 

 nerves, petiole J 1 in., panicle slender sparsely puberulous, flowers ^ in. diam., sepals 

 appressed-pubescent on both surfaces, filaments nearly glabrous. 



M. BIMOSA, Blume Mus. Hot. i. 330? (DC. 1'rodr. xv. i. 42), Specimens of 

 one or more species clostly resembling this, but having neither mature flowers nor 

 fruit, are in the Kew Herbarium from Burma, Griffith, aud Chela in the Khasia 

 Mts., Clarke. The branches are stout and very young leaves glabrous, leaves 



