900 BENGAL PLANTS. [Machilus, 
}Nerves of leaves 8-10 pairs, very slender ; leaves when young finely - 
beneath :—[p. 899] 
eaves when adult quite glabrous beneath ........-.....20ee0eee Gamble 
Leaves persistently finely pubescent beneath, and hairy sail the 
ANNU T ER oo ced ea a osc te ae dead ea nog uneeceite cat tueaests nbycina. 
1774. Macuinvus VILLOSA Hook. f.; F. B. I. v. 140, 860. Lawrus 
villosa F. i. 310. 
N. Be a ae ; Chittagong. 
A large tree. 
1775. Meanie GamBLeEI King; F. B. I. v. 138, 860. 
Duars; Cooch Behar. 
A small tree. 
1776. Macuizus Bompycrna King; F. B. I. v. 861. 
Chittagong. 
A small tree. 
799. Phoebe Nees. 
Evergreen shrubs or trees; leaves alternate or scattered or 
clustered at ends of branchlets, penninerved. lowers small, 
hermaphrodite or polygamous, in axillary and subterminal panicles. 
Perianth-tube short; lobes of limb 6, a erect and accres- 
cent in fruit and clasping the base of the berry. Stamens 9 
perfect, those of the two outer series with filaments eglandular 
an thers introrsely 4-celled ; of the third series with filaments 
2-glandular and anthers extrorsely 4-celled ; of fourth row replaced 
by cordate or sagittate staminodes. Ovary sessile, narrowed into 
the style; stigma discoid. Fruit an ellipsoid or oblong berry, its 
base clasped by the hardened perianth-segments. Seed with thin 
testa 
Leaves, shoots, and perianth quite aye lanceolata. 
Leaves, shoots, and perianth pubescent..............0cs0sccseeeeeees paniculata. 
1777. PH@BE LANCEOLATA Nees; F. B. I. v. 141. Laurus 
lanceolaria F. I. ii. 309. 
ice Bettiah, on the northern frontier; Chittagong- 
An evergreen tre 
1778. amet PANICULATA ass EB k vy. 142. 
Chitt 
agong. 
An evergreen tree. 
Bieta sche ae 
