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leaf -scars, sometimes racemose or fascicled on common peduncles ; 

 bracts involucrate, 4-6, rarely more in one involucre, coriaceous or 

 membranous. Perianth-tube ovoid campanulate or very short; 

 lobes of limb 6 or 4, equal or unequal, sometimes small or obsolete. 

 MALE flowers : Stamens 9 or 12 in trimerous flowers, 6 in dimerous 

 flowers, occasionally fewer than 6, rarely more than 12 ; filaments 

 of 1st and 2nd rows usually eglandular, those of the 3rd (and 4th 

 if present) 2-glandular ; anthers all introrse, 4-celled. Ovary 

 minute or obsolete, very rarely perfect. FEM. fls. Staminodes 9 or 

 12, or in the dimerous flowers 6 (rarely more than 12). Ovary 

 enclosed in the perianth-tube or free ; style short or long, stigma 

 usually irregularly lobed. Fruit a drupe or berry seated on the un- 

 enlarged perianth, or partly clasped at the base by the often much 

 enlarged discoid or cupular perianth -tube. Seed with a thin testa. 

 Species about 140, in Trop. Asia, Australia and the Pacific Islands, 

 rare in Africa and America. 



Perianth -lobes incomplete or none ; leaves oblong 

 or ovate- acute, lower surface sparingly pube- 

 scent or closely tomentose ; fruit globose, 

 seated on the slightly enlarged perianth-tube 2. L. chinensis. 



Perianth-lobes complete, 6- or 5-partite : 



Leaves elliptic or elliptic-oblong ; upper sur- 

 face glabrous ; lower surface grey- or tawny- 

 pubescent ; main lateral nerves 5-10 pairs ; 

 fruit ovoid, on a very small perianth- tube . 2. L. polyantha. 



Leaves usually narrowly lanceolate, acute or 

 acuminate, grey-hoary, rarely glabrous 

 beneath ; main lateral nerves 8-15 pairs ; 

 fruit on the enlarged per. -tube, ellipsoid^ % . 3. L. salici folia, 



var. lauri folia 



1. L. chinensis, Lamk. Encycl. Method, Hi, 574 ; Cooke Fl. 

 Bomb, ii, 539 ; Gamble i^n Journ. As. Soc. Beng. LXXV, part. 1, 

 131. L. sebifera, Pers. Syn. ii, 4 ; F. B. I. v, 157 ; Watt E. D. ; 

 Kanjilal For. Fl. (ed. 2), 329 ; Gamble Man. 570 ; Prain Beng. 

 PI. 902 ; Brandis Ind. Trees, 536. Tetranthera laurifolia, Blume ; 

 (not of Roxb.) ; Brandis For. Fl. 379. T. apetala, Roxb. Fl. Ind. 

 Hi, 819 ; Eoyle 111. 325. T. Roxburghii, Nees ; Eoyle I. c. 

 Vern. Maida, gwa (Hind.), medh (Oudh), chandna (Dehra Dun). 



