l66 71. MYRiSTACE^. {Myristica, 



Dalz. & Gibs.Boiiilj.Fl. 4, Italct mara,'K. Very common in the evergreea 

 forests of the Konkan and North Kanara ghats. Vi. Nov., Jan. Fr. Ji.S. 



Oeder 72, LAURINE^. 



Trees or shrubs except Cassytha. Leaves alternate, rarely op- 

 posite, gland-dotted. Flowers usually 1-2-sexual ; bracts or deci- 

 duous, often involucriform. Perianth regular, 6-4-cle£t, tube some- 

 times enlarged in fruit. Stamens normally 12, biseriate; usually 

 half or more of the inner or outer stamens arc wanting or reduced 

 to staminodia. Anthers erect, 2-4-celled, cells opening by upcurved 

 deciduous lids or valves. Ovary sessile, 1-celled, ovule solitary, pen- 

 dulous. Fruit a 1-seeded berry or drupe, peduncle often thick- 

 ened. 



Flowers usually bisexual. The anthers of the 3 

 inner stamens extrorse. Anthers 2 celled. 



Fruit encloscil in perianth-tube ... ... ... CryptocaRTA. 



Fruit not wholly included in perianth-tube ... Beilschmiedia 



Anthers 4-celled. 



Perianth-tube only persistent in fruit ... ... CiNNAMOiiaM. 



rerianth-lobes persistent, refle.xed in fruit ... Machilus. 



Perianth altogether deciduous ... ... ... Alseodaphxe. 



Flowers direcious. All anthers introrse 4-celled. 



Leaves sub-verticillate. Bracts densely imbricat- 

 ing, caducous not whorled ... ... ... ACTINODAPHNE. 



Leaves alternate. Bracts whorled Lits^a. 



CRYPTOCARYA, Brown. 



Evergreen trees. Leaves alternate, penninerved. Flowers her- 

 maphrodite, in axillary and terminal panicles. Perianth-segments 

 6, equal. Stamens 12, 6 outer perfect; anthers introrse, 3 inner 

 with extrorse anthers alternating with 3 staminodes. Ovary im- 

 mersed in the perianth-tube. Fruit included in the perianth-tube. 



Leaves large. Panicles spreading. Fruit globose C. Wightiana. 



Leaves small. Panicles dense, contracted. Fruit ovoid. ... C. Stocksii. 



C. Wightiana, Thw. Ennm. 254 ; Fl. Br. I. .5. 120; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 

 t. 299 ; G. floribunda, Wight, Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 222. Gulmur, 

 K. In the evergreen forests of the Konkan and North Kanara, com- 

 mon on the Yellapnr ghats. Fl. Nov., Jan. Fi. May, June. 



C. Stocksii, Meissn. in DC. Prod. XV. 1. 71; Fl. Br. I. 5. 120. 



Kanara, probably from the South Kanai'a ghats ; I have not seen it in 

 any of the North Kanara forests. I have specimens in fruit collected 

 in October on the Bababuden hills of Mysore at 5,000 feet altitude. 

 Flowers during May, June, on the Sispara ghdt. 



Besides the above two species there is a large tree, common on the 

 Nilkund ghat of North Kanara, flowering specimens of which were 

 said to be near to C. amyrjdaHna, Nees, at Kew. Flowers in long 

 peduncled panicles Dec, Jany . It is probably, however, only C. Wightiana^ 

 Thw, 



