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Berry pale brown, very scurfy and pustu- 
lar, oblong-ellipsoid, 7—8 cm. long and 
about 4 cm. in diameter; perianth-tube 
not enlarged in a ring, its lobes persistent 7. A. Ridieyi. 
3rd row of stamens with glands attached to the 
filaments above the base: leaves sub-membranous, 
pendulous, large; panicles subracemose with dis- 
tant branches and few flowers eye .. 8. A. pendulifolia. 
Species imperfectly known ae .. 9. A. crassipes. 
1. ALSEODAPHNE PEDUNCULARIS, Hook. f. in Fl. Br. Ind. 
V. 144 (1886). A shrub or small tree, reaching 3 to 4:5 m. in height; 
branchlets white, slender, uppermost nearly black when dry ; leaf- 
buds lanceolate, 5—6 mm. long, black when dry, with few scales. 
Leaves membranous, more or less fascicled at the ends of the branch- 
lets; elliptic-lanceolate, obtusely subcaudate, acuminate at apex, 
acutely attenuate or cuneate at base; both surfaces glabrous, dark 
olive-green when dry ; 10—20 cm. long, 3—7 cm. broad; midrib 
slender, raised on both surfaces ; main nerves 6 to 10 pairs, slightly 
curved for about two-thirds of the distance to the margin and then 
joined by broad loops, prominent and pale beneath; transverse 
nervules few, irregular, easily visible beneath ; petiole slender, 
5—10 cm. long. Flowers minute, greenish yellow, in slender nearly 
glabrous pedunculate panicles from the axils of the uppermost 
leaves, 3—7 cm. long; peduncles subfiliform up to 4 cm. long; 
branches very slender ending in umbellate cymules of about 3—6 
flowers; bracts subulate, bracteoles minute; pedicels subclavate ; 
buds globose. Perianth-tube short; lobes nearly equal, ovate, 
1—1°5 mm. long, glabrous without, puberulous within. Stamens 
very short, hairy, those of Ist and 2nd rows -75 mm. long with 
very short villous filaments; those of 3rd row similar but longer and 
with 2 ovate glabrous villously stipitate -5 mm. long glands at the 
base or alittle behind ; staminodes of the 4th row reniform, glabrous 
except on the back and for a villous tuft at base. Ovary globose, 
slightly villous; style thick, curved; stigma broadly peltate. 
Fruit an ellipsoid berry, 2°5 cm. long, 1°5 cm. in diameter, supported 
on the persistent perianth lobes and the much thickened cylindric 
straight or curved red pedicel, 2-4 cm. long; pericarp black when 
ripe, smooth. Haasia peduncularis, Nees Syst. Laur. 376: Meissn. 
in DC. Prodr. XV. I. 61; Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. I. i. 930. Machilus 
peduncularis, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. II. 70. Persea peduncu- 
laris, Nees Syst. Laur. 125 (excl. syn. Rumph.). Laurus peduncu- 
laris, Wall. Cat. 2596. 
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