56 LAUEACEM. [ NEOLITSEA. 



perianth-tube ; pedicels somewhat elongate ; pericarp smooth. 

 Cotyledons hemispheric. Species about 30, in India or Malaya, 

 one or more extending to the Philippines and Australia. 



N. lanuginosa, Duthie. Tetradenia lanuginosa, Nees in Wall. 

 Pl As. Ear. ii, 64. Litsea lanuginosa, Nees Syst. Laur. 634 ; 

 Brandis For. Fl. 382 ; 2nd. Trees 540 ; F. B. I. v, 178 ; Kanjilal 

 For. Fl. (ed. 2), 331 ; Gamble Man. 573 ; Collett Fl. Siml. 433. 

 Tetranthera Cuipala, Don. Prod. 65. 



A tall or moderate- sized tree, with brownish bark. Leaf-buds con- 

 spicuous, enclosed within softly pubescent scales, the terminal ones 

 often up to 1 in. in length. Leaves alternate or more or less crowded in 

 whorls towards the ends of the branchlets, thickly coriaceous, 6-12 in. 

 long, elliptic -lanceolate or -oblanceolate, acute or acuminate, softly 

 tomentose beneath when young, soon becoming glabrous and glaucous, 

 prominently 3-nerved above the base ; petioles J-f in. Flowers and 

 bracts villous, the latter soon falling ; pedicels of fern, flowers longer 

 than those of the males. Perianth- segments fringed, silky outside. 

 Stamens longer than the perianth ; glands of the 2 inner filaments 

 long-stalked. Berry about |- in. long, its pedicel thickened towards 

 the apex. 



Dehra Dun, in the Mothronwala swamp (Kanjilal). Flowers Feb.- 

 June. DISTEIB. : Outer Himalayan ranges from Kashmir, sparingly 

 at about 3,000 ft., and eastwards to Sikkim up to about 6,000 ft., 

 also on the Khasia Hills. 



6. CASSYTHA, Linn. ; Fl. Brit, Ind. v, 187. 



Filiform twining parasites, adhering to their hosts by suckers. 

 Leaves of minute scales or none. Flowers minute, bisexual, some- 

 times dimorphic, in spikes heads or racemes, bracteoles 3. Perianth- 

 tube short and globose, or in the same species often as long as the 

 limb and turbinate ; segments 6, the 3 outer smaller. Stamens 

 '9 or 6, perfect, those of the 1st row with eglandular filaments and 

 introrsely 2 -celled anthers ; of the 2nd row similar or reduced to 

 staminodes ; of the 3rd row with 2-glandular filaments and 

 extrorsely 2 -celled anthers ; those of the 4th row replaced by 

 sessile or stipitate staminodes. Ovary globose, free in flower, in 

 iruit closely covered by the enlarged perianth ; stigma sessile, 

 small or capitate. Fruit a small drupe, enclosed in the succulent 



