NEOLITSEA.] LAURACEM. 55 



the new foliage appearing at about the same time, and the fruit ripens 

 about 3 or 4 months later. DISTBIB. : Salt Range and Punjab 

 Himalaya and eastwards to Nepal up to 3,000 ft., also in Assam, 

 Bengal, Central India, Orissa, Burma and Malay Peninsula, extend- 

 ing to Java and China. The wood of this tree is similar in appear- 

 ance to that of L. chinensis, but is softer and less durable. Its medi- 

 cinal properties are the same. The leaves when crushed have a strong 

 scent of cinnamon, they aie used in Assam for feeding the Muga silk- 

 worm. 



L. salicifolia, Hook. f. VAR. laurifolia, F. B. I. v, 167 ; Prain 

 Beng. PL 903. Tetranthera saliciiolia, Roxb. T. laurifolia, Eoxb. 

 Fl. 2nd. in, 823 ; T. lanceseiolia, Eoxb. L c. 822: 



An evergreen bush or small tree ; branchlets puberulous. Leaves sub- 

 distichous, 3-5 in. long, variable in shape from elliptic to linear-lan- 

 ceolate or linear-oblong, obtuse or acute or acuminate, brownish and 

 glabrous above, grey -hoary rarely glabrous beneath ; lateral nerves 

 8-15 pairs, prominent beneath ; petioles J-l in. Umbels clustered ; 

 pedicels short, slender. Stamens 6-9 ; filaments villous. Fruit in. 

 long, narrowly ellipsoid, seated on the funnel-shaped or clavate 

 perianth-tube. 



Forests in the Sub- Himalayan tracts of N. Oudh (Brandis). DISTRIB. : 

 Outer Himalayan ranges from Nepal to Sikkim, up to 6,000 ft. ; 

 also in Assam, the Garo, Khasia and Naga Hills, Bengal Plain, Sun- 

 dribuns and Chittagong, extending to Upper and Lower Burma. 



5. NEOLITSEA, Men*. ; included under Litsea in Fl. Brit. Ind. 



v, 178. 



Evergreen trees. Leaves alternate opposite or in whorls, 3 t 

 nerved, more or less lanceolate ; buds perulate. Flowers dioecious, 

 in 3-7- fld. umbellules arranged in clusters or short racemes in the 

 axils of the upper leaves or on the branchlets between the nodes, 

 the clusters with small bracts at their bases ; involucral bracts 4, 

 deciduous ; pedicels elongating. Perianth 4-partite. Stamens 

 of male flowers 6 ; those of the 2 outer rows eglandular ; the inner 

 biglandular ; anther-cells all introrse or the lower lateral. Sta- 

 minodes of fern, flowers 6, arranged as the stamens, usually linear 

 or linear-clavate. Ovary ovoid, style thick, stigma usually peltate, 

 in the male flowers none or rudimentary. Fruit a globose or 

 elliptic- oblong berry, seated on the slightly enlarged disciform 



