PHOSBE.] LAVE AGE M. 51 



A medium -sized tree with a thin dark-grey rather rough bark ; young 

 parts finely silky. Leaves thickly coriaceous when mature, becoming 

 reflexed in age, 6-10 in. long, oblong^or elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 often subfalcate, dark-green and shining above, glaucous beneath ; 

 main lateral nerves 12-20 pairs ; petioles about J in. long. Panicles 

 about 6 in. long when in flower ; peduncles and pedicels rather stout, 

 elongating and drooping in fruit, often tinged with red. Flowers J in. 

 in diam. Sepals linear- oblong, finely silky outside, reflexed in fruit. 

 Drupe globose, -f-f in. in diam., changing from a dark sage-green 

 colour to purple or almost black. 



Sub-Himalayan tract of Rohilkhand in the Kota Dun at 2,000 ft. (Herb. 

 Strachey and Winterbottom, Machilus No. 1) ; Kumaon Bhabar at 

 Barmdeo (Herb. S. and W. No. 3), Kotri Dun at 1,800 ft. (Brandis). 

 Flowers d *fing April and May. DISTBIB. : W. Temp. Himalaya from 

 Chamba dad Simla to Nepal, ascending to 8,000 ft. This hand- 

 some tree is abundant in shady places on northern slopes of the outer 

 Himalayan ranges, especially in Jaunsar and Garhwal. It is some- 

 times found associated with M. odoratissima, Nees to which the 

 present species and some others had previously been referred, but it 

 may easily be recognized by its larger leaves, the pubescent panicle- 

 branches and flowers and especially by its globose drupes. 



3. PHGGBE, Nees ; Fl. Brit, Ind. v, 141. 



Evergreen shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, scattered or in 

 clusters at the ends of the branchlets, penninerved. Flowers small, 

 2-sexual or polygamous, in axillary or sub-terminal panicles. 

 Perianth-tube short ; lobes 6, subequal, erect, accrescent and 

 clasping the base of the fruit. Stamens 9, perfect ; those of the 

 2 outer rows eglandular at the base and with extrose 4-celled an- 

 thers ; of the 3rd row 2-glandular at the base, with extrorse 2-celled 

 anthers, those of the 4th row replaced by cordate or sagittate 

 staminodes. Ovary sessile, narrowed into the style, stigma discoid. 

 Fruit an ellipsoid or oblong berry, clasped at the base by the 

 hardened perianth-segments. Species about 26, in India and 

 Malaya. 



Quite glabrous except the young shoots and the 



perianth inside . . . . . . 1. P. lanceolata. 



Panicles and flowers puberulous . . . . 2. P. vallida* 



