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specimen with rounded or emarginate leaves, but this is probably due to insect 
action or browsing when young. 
3. LINDERA OXYPHYLLA, Hook. f.in Fl. Br. Ind. V. 183 (1886). 
A tree reaching 9—12 m. in height (Curtis); branchlets stout, black- 
ish grey, the younger ones black when dry and smooth, glabrous 
except the innovations; leaf-buds lanceolate, ferruginous-pubescent, 
Leaves subcoriaceous, alternate; lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, 
acuminate at apex, cuneate at base; the upper surfaces nearly black 
when dry, glabrous, the lower subglaucous; 8—13 cm. long, 3—4 
em. broad; midrib rather slender; main nerves about 12 pairs, 
obscure, curving to the margin; secondary nerves few, between the 
main nerves; transverse nervules very few, obscure as is the 
reticulation; petiole black, channelled, 7—12 mm. long. Flowers 
in umbellules, on peduncles about 5 mm. long in short axillary and 
lateral ferruginous-pubescent racemes near the ends of the branchlets, 
10—12 mm. long; involucral bracts 4, hemispheric, 4 mm. long, 
deciduous; flowers in each umbellule about 9—10; pedicels stout, 
short; perianth-lobes obovate-spathulate. Stamens of 3 flowers 9; 
those of the 1st and 2nd rows on villous filaments 3 mm. long; those 
of the 3rd row with rather shorter filaments and 2 large reniform 
glands at their base, anthers ovoid 1 mm. long with large cells; 
rudimentary ovary small, conoidal. Staminodes of 2 flowers and 
fruit not known. Tetranthera oxyphylla, Wall. Cat. 2547; Miq. FI. 
Ind. Bat. I. 1. 957. Daphnidium oxyphyllum, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. 
Rar. II. 63 and Syst. Laur. 618. Aperula oxyphylia, Blume Mus. 
Bot. Lugd.-Bat. I. 366: Meissn. in DC. Prodr. XV. i. 240. 
Penance: Wallich 2547!; Government Hill at 750 m.alt., Curtis 
1103! 
4. LINDERA POLYANTHA, Boerl. Handl. Fl. Ned. Ind. III. 147 
(1900). A moderate-sized tree; branchlets nearly black, angular, 
striate, the youngest ferruginous-puberulous as are the lanceolate 
naked leaf-buds and the inflorescence. Leaves chartaceous, alternate ; 
lanceolate, acuminate at apex, acute, often unequally, at base; 
upper surface reddish-brown, glabrous, shining, the lower also reddish, 
often glaucescent ; 9—11 cm. long, 3—4 cm. broad; midrib rather 
stout ; main nerves 7—-8 pairs, oblique, curved to the margin, some- 
what raised on the upper surface; transverse nervules obscure as 
is the reticulation; petiole 1O—15 mm. long, channelled, slender. 
Flowers in umbellules on peduncle 7—8 mm. long in short axillary 
