Phoebe.] LXII. LAURINKffl. 377 



with twin glands at their base, and extrorse anthers, alternating with 3 

 short staminodia. Ovary free ; style filiform, stigma discoid. Fruit a 

 1 -seeded berry, supported by the persistent, somewhat enlarged and in- 

 durated 6-cleft perianth, fruit-bearing pedicel thickened. 



1. P. lanceolata, Nees; Wight Ic. t. 1821. Syn. Laurus lanceolaria, 

 Eoxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 309 ; Ocotea lanceolata, Nees in Wall. PI. As. rar. ii. 

 71. Vern. Chan, chandra, badror, shalanghi, Pb.; Haulia, dandora, 

 kdwal, sun kauival, bilphari, N.W.P. 



A shrub or middle-sized tree, glabrous, only youngest branchlets pu- 

 bescent. Leaves alternate, often approximate and subverticillate at the 

 base of the flower-panicles, lanceolate, 6-9 in. long, narrowed into a short 

 petiole ; main lateral nerves 6-10 pair, joined by more or less prominent 

 reticulate veins. Flowers pale yellow, in lax pedunculate axillary panicles, 

 often congregated in the axils of the upper leaves, pedicels a little longer 

 than perianth. Perianth glabrous outside, the segments acute, edge finely 

 ciliate, hairy inside. Inner series of stamens and staminodia hairy, stam- 

 inodia obtusely sagittate, on a short stalk. Fruit black, succulent, oblong- 

 ovoid, -J in. long. 



Outer Himalayan ranges, from Bhutan to the Jumna, ascending to 6000 ft. 

 (west to the Jhelam, not common, J.L.S.) Kasia hills, Silhet, Upper Burma 

 (Bhamo on the Irawaddi). Fl. Feb.-June ; the fruit ripens June-July. 



P. pallida, Nees ; DC. Prodr. xv. i. 34, a small tree with pubescent panicles 

 and perianth, and somewhat more coriaceous leaves, is probably only a pubes- 

 cent variety ; I can find no other distinguishing characters. Kamaon, Nepal, 

 ascending to 5000 ft. Moist ravines of eastern Oudh forests. Fl. June. 



P. paniculata, Nees ; DC. Prodr. xv. i. 37 Syn. P. villosa, Wight Ic. t. 

 1822 ; Laurus villosa, Eoxb. ii. 310, (probably) with broader leaves, tomentose 

 beneath, tomentose branchlets, petioles, and grey-hairy panicles and perianth, 

 Nepal, Sikkim, Kasia hills, Kamaon ? (Madden),* is closely allied to, if not 

 identical with, P. Wightii, Meissner 1. c. 38 ; Wight Ic. t. 1820 (P. paniculata), 

 of the Nilgiris. 



Similar in appearance is Apollonias Arnotti, Nees ; Wight Ic. 1. 1819 ; Bedd. 

 Fl. Sylv. t. 291, with 2-celled anthers, those of the 6 outer stamens introrse, 

 of the 3 inner ones extrorse. Berry \ in. long. Tinnevelly, Travancore ghats, 

 Malabar (Beddome). 



3. MACHILTTS, Eumphius. 



Evergreen trees. Leaves alternate, penniveined. Flowers bisexual, in 

 terminal and lateral panicles. Perianth divided to the base into 6 biseriate 



* "There (towards the summit of the Kamola Ghat, above the Kotah Doon) is also 

 a species of Embelia, with fruit in umbels (probably E. robusta, Roxb., D.B.), and a 

 handsome shrub, Tetranthera fruticosa, or apetala, which also grows at Punagiri, 

 below Gangoli, &c, and is sometimes known as the Gar-bijaur, or wild Citron, and 

 Maida or meda-lakri; but the tree particularly so designated, pointed out to me near 

 llamesar, appeared to be Laurus villosa, Roxb., and its hill-name Kapua hauwal." 

 Madden in As. Soc. Journ. xvii. i. 391. At p. 587 he mentions the same vernac- 

 ular name (Kapua hauwal), as L. tomeniosa ? Sarda (Sarju) river at the Gangoli or 

 Shera bridge (2500 ft. elev.) 



