Litscea,] LXII. LAURINEiE. 383 



ft., and a girth of 3-4 ft. Oil is extracted from the fruit, which is used for 

 burning. 



L. zeylanica grows in Ceylon (to 6000 ft.), on the Western Ghats, the Nil- 

 giris, and other mountains of South India, in Hong Kong, and in Queens- 

 land. L. foliosa and umbrosa, which I cannot distinguish from L. zeylanica, 

 grow in East Bengal, South India, Burma, and the Malayan peninsula. Wood 

 light reddish-brown, compact, even-grained, not heavy. Laurus involucrata 

 " has much the appearance of L. Camphor a, every part of it smells strongly of 

 camphor, the roots and berries exceedingly so, and are very acrid, the fresh bark, 

 well bruised and mixed with pepper, is by the hill people employed to cure 

 wounds. The leaves are triplinerved, and when they first appear, they are 

 covered with a most beautiful soft satin-like, yellowish silver down " (Roxb. 

 Cor. PI. ii. p. 46). 



7. DAPHNIDIUM, Nees. 



Trees or shrubs with alternate palminerved or penniveined leaves. 

 Flowers dioicous, pedicellate, in sessile or nearly sessile lateral clusters, 

 surrounded by deciduous bracts, which are imbricate in bud. Perianth- 

 segments usually 6. Stamens of the male flowers usually 6 in the outer, 

 and 3 in the inner circle, all perfect ; anthers 2-celled, introrse, a pair of 

 glands at the base of each of the 3 inner stamens, no staminodes. Berry 

 supported by the persistent base of perianth. 



Leaves glabrous, with 3 main nerves from the base . 1. D. pulcherrimum. 



Leaves tomentose beneath, penniveined . . . . 2. D. bifarium. 



1. D. pulcherrimum, Nees; DC. Prodr. xv. i. 229. Syn. Tetranthera 

 pulcherrima, Wall. Vern. Dadia, N.W.P. 



An evergreen tree, wholly glabrous, except the inflorescence. Leaves 

 thinly coriaceous, pale beneath, lanceolate, long-acuminate, apex linear, 

 1 in. long, with 3 prominent main basal nerves, blade 4-6 in., petiole \ 

 in. long. Flowers yellow, on short'pedicels, numerous, in axillary sessile 

 clusters, perianth and pedicels hairy. Berry ovoid, J in. long, on pedicels 

 \ in. long. 



Kamaon, Nepal, Sikkim, between 4000 and 9000 ft. Kasia hills. Fl. March, 

 April ; fr. June- July. 



2. D. bifarium, Nees; 1. c. 231. Syn. Tetranthera bifaria, Wall. 



An evergreen shrub or tree ; buds, under side of leaves and inflorescence 

 rusty-tomentose. Leaves coriaceous, glabrous and shining above, rusty- 

 tomentose beneath, elliptic -oblong, 2-4 in. long, penniveined, petioles 

 short. Flowers on short hairy pedicels, numerous, in axillary sessile 

 clusters. Berries subglobose, J in. diam., supported by the flat, broad 

 persistent base of the perianth, on short stalks. 



Kamaon, ascending to 5000 ft. Nepal, East Bengal. Hong Kong. Fl. March. 



Closely allied to Daphnidium are : 1. Aperula Neesiana, Blume ; DC. 

 Prodr. xv. i. 241, a tree with ovate or ovate-lanceolate leaves, perianth 4-6-fid, 

 with very aromatic berries as large as a pepper-corn. Nepal, Sikkim, to 8000 



