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those of 3rd row rather large and with narrower anthers, fur- 
nished near the base behind with 2 reniform glabrous glands on 
short villous stalks or nearly sessile; staminodes of 4th row 
1:25 mm. long, cordate, glabrous, villous-stipitate. Ovary globose; 
style slender; stigma peltate. Fruit an ovoid berry 12—13 mm. 
long, 7—8 mm. in diam., seated on the enlarged glabrous unequal 
erect perianth-lobes; pericarp smooth, black. Meissn. in DC. Prodr. 
XV. i. 34 (excl. var. y.); Wight Ic. t. 1821; Brandis For. Fl. 377 
and Ind. Trees, p. 532; Kurz For. Fl. II. 290; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. 
V. 141; Prain Beng. Plants 900; Koord. & Val. Bijdr. X.94; Ridley 
in Trans. Linn. Soc. 2nd Ser. III. 340 Ocotea lanceolata, Nees in 
Wall. Pl. As. Rar. Il. 71. Laurus lanceolata, Wall. Cat. 2599. 
L. lanceolaria, Roxb. Fl. Ind. IT. 309. 
PaHANG: banks of Tahan river, Ridley 2272.—Distris. India 
(subtropical Himalaya from the Sutlej eastwards), Burma, Java 
(Middle and East Java). 
The description is taken entirely from Ridley’s specimens which agree 
well in flower and fruit with the Indian ones, but have longer and narrower 
leaves with more numerous main nerves and more conspicuous reticulation. 
2. PH@BE DECLINATA, Nees Syst. Laur. 114 (1836). A tree; 
branchlets slender, grey, upper ones black when dry; leaf-buds 
small, lanceolate, slightly silky, without scales. Leaves chartaceo- 
coriaceous ; lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, obtusely acuminate at 
apex, cuneate or attenuate at base; upper suriace glabrous, shin- 
ing, black-brown, lower reddish-brown or subglaucous, glabrous or 
very minutely puberulous; 7—12 cm. long, 2—45 cm. broad; 
midrib slender, impressed above; main nerves 7—10 pairs, very 
slender, obscure, curving upwards to and along the margin and 
joined by the minutely areolate reticulation ; petiole slender, black, 
1—2 em. long, channelled above. Flowers in slender axillary black 
panicles, 8—12 cm. long; peduncles long, slender, terete; branches 
few, subcorymbose, ending in dichasia; pedicels slender, 2—5 mm. 
long, clavate; buds globose ; flowers glabrous or slightly puberulous, 
Perianth-tube short; lobes ovate acute, subequal, the 3 outer slightly 
shorter, 2—3 mm. long, ciliate on the margins, silky within at 
the base. Stamens slender, 1 mm. long, glabrous except a tuft of 
silky hairs at the base; those of the Ist and 2nd rows with oblong 
anthers; those of the 38rd row with narrower anthers and two 
large stipitate glands at the base a little behind; staminodes of 
4th row cordate-sagittate, silkily stipitate, 1 mm. long. Ovary 
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