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2. ALSEODAPHNE, Nees. 



1. SEMICARPIFOLIA, Nees. Arboreous; leaves obovate, cunei- 

 form, glaucous, glabrous, penninerved beneath ; panicles terminal, 

 cymosely umbelled on the ends of the branches. The Ghauts. 

 Wight Ic. t. 1826. 



3. BEILSCHMIEDIA, Nees. 



1. ROXBURGHIANA, Nees. Arboreous with a straight trunk, 

 and wide-spreading branches ; leaves opposite and alternate, broad 

 lanceolar shining, veined ; racemes solitary, under the leaves, or axil- 

 lary, filaments without glands; nectaries 9 ; anthers bilocular ; berries 

 oblong, glaucous. Wight Ic. t. 1828; Laurus bilocularis, Roxb. 

 Fl. Ind. ii, p 3 1 1. Common on the Ghauts. 



4. CRYPTOCARYA, R. Br. 



1. FLORIBUNDA, Nees. A tree; leaves oval-oblong, abruptly 

 shortly-acuminate, coarsely venoso-reticulate and glaucous beneath, 

 glabrous and shining above, pubescent on the veins beneath ; 

 panicles axillary, the terminal one dichotomous, naked, yellowish, 

 tomentose. Plentiful at Tullawaree. Wight Ic. t. 1829. 



5. TETRANTHERA, Jacquin. 



1. APETALA, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii, p 819. A middle-sized tree; 

 leaves petioled, oval-obtuse, smooth, shining above, 3 to 5 inches 

 long, 2 to 3 inches broad ; petioles one inch long, round and 

 smooth ; peduncles solitary axillary, as long as the petioles, 3 to 4 

 cleft ; pedicels shorter than the peduncles, each supporting a small 

 umbellet of minute flowers ; male involucre 4-leaved, containing 

 8 to 12 pedicelled corollets ; leaflets orbicular, concave, caducous, 

 perianth none ; calyx campanulate ; female flowers on a separate 

 tree ; involucre and calyx as in the male ; berry globular, smooth, 

 black when ripe and almost dry, of the size of a pea, resting on 

 the clubbed pedicel. At Vingorla ; flowers in June. Syn. tomen- 

 tosa, Roxb. Ex. Wight Ic. t. 1S34 ; flowers apetalous; umbels axil- 

 lary, solitary, peduncled ; leaves elliptic-oblong, somewhat acute at 

 both ends, beneath, with the petioles and young branchlets, whitish 

 tomentose. Common on the Ghauts. 



6. CYLICODAPHNE, Nees. 



1. WIGHTIANA, Nees. A tree with broad-lanceolate leaves, 

 crowded about the ends of the branches, under surface clothed with 



