Plants of the Punjab. 



87 



Trees with Alternate Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Maehilus Duthiel, 



Chan. 



Laurine^. 

 F. B. Lv. 861. 

 Himalaya, 4-9,000 ft. 

 Simla, the Glen 

 (Collett). 



Phgebe laneeolata, 



Badror. 

 Laurine^. 

 F. B. I. V. 141.* 

 Himalaya, 2-6.000 ft. 

 Bhajji, Sutlej Valley 

 (Collett). 



Litssea sebifera, 



Maida-lakri, gwa. 

 Laurineje. 

 F. B. I. V. 157. 

 The Plains. 



Litsasa polyantha, 



Katmarra. 



Laurine^. 



F. B. I. V. 162. 



Salt Range. 



The Plains to 3,000 ft. 



Petals none. 



very like the last species, but the leaves are not 

 dark, flowers covered with silky down, fruit round. 



so 



small, bark yellowish- white ; leaves 5-8 by 1-2 

 in., crowded at the end of branches, narrow with taper- 

 ing point, smooth ; flowers ^ -iin., pale yellow or white, 

 in branching racemes not at the end of branches, sepals 

 6, hairy within, stamens 9 in 2 series, of 6 and 3 with 3 

 staminodes ; fruit | in., narrowly oblong with round 

 ends, black when ripe, half buried in the calyx segments, 

 which become stiff and pressed against it. 



medium size, bark dark grey, soft, corky, young 

 parts covered with grey wool ; leaves 4-10 in. long, 

 ovate or oblong, short- or long-pointed, slightly downy 

 above, and grey woolly beneath ; flowers, white, in few 

 4-6-flowered clusters on a common short stalk with 4 

 bracts, male and female on different trees, calvx 4-6- 

 lobed, tubular, stamens 9 or more ; fruit round, -j\ in. 

 diam., supported on the remains of the flower, black. 



small. 



bark dark grey, 

 above, rusty 

 flowers as in last species 

 ovoid, oblong, |-| in. 



long, smooth 



smooth ; leaves 4-8 in. 

 woolly beneath, broad ; 

 but with 5 bracts ; fruit 



Litsaea lanuginosa^ 



LAURINEiB. 



F. B. I. V. 178. 

 Himalaya, 3,000 ft. 

 Sutlej Valley 

 (Collett). 



small, bark brown ; leaves 6-12 in. long, crowded 

 at the end of branches, thick, leathery, densely silky 

 when young, narrow, long-pointed ; flowers 1 in. diam., 

 in fours, in sessile clusters, silky or woolly, stamens 6, 

 glands of inner stamens long-stalkod ; frait h in. long, 

 pointed at both ends, seated on the thick end of the stalk. 



Litsaea umbrosa, 



Laurine;b. 

 F. B. I. V. 179. 

 Himalaya, 3-9,000 ft. 

 Mahasu, Narkanda 

 (Collett). 



small, bark dark brown ; leaves 3-0 in. long, oblong, 

 long-pointed, thinly L athery ; flowers yellowiph-whito 

 with 5 bract-; in small sessile clusters, calyx 4-lobed, 

 stamens 6, with sessile glands not as long as in the last 

 species ; fruit -^^ in. diam,, round or oblong, on slender 

 stalks I in. long. 



