Litsea.] LAURINE:. 901 
800. Actinodaphne Nees. : 
Evergreen shrubs or trees; leaves almost whorled, rarely 
scattered or opposite, penninerved or 3-nerved. Flowers small, 
dicecious, in axillary or lateral, dense, sessile or peduncled, brac- 
teate fascicles or umbels ; bracts imbricating, caducous. Perianth- 
tube short; lobes of limb 6, subequal. ¢ Stamens 9 perfect, or 
sometimes only 6; filaments of two outer rows eglandular; of 
third row 2-glandular, sometimes the third series obsolete ; anthers 
of all three series introrsely 4-locular. Ovary reduced and empty 
or obsolete. ¢ Staminodes 9. Ovary free ; style longish, slender ; 
stigma dilated. Fruit a berry, resting on the enlarged, hardened, 
flat, Spreading or concave perianth-tube. Seed with thin testa. 
79. ACTINODAPHNE ANGUSTIFOLIA Nees; F. B. I. v. 152. 
N. Bengal, Duars ; Chittagong. 
An evergreen tree. 
801. Litszea Lamk. 
Evergreen, rarely deciduous, trees or shrubs; leaves alternate, 
rarely opposite or nearly so, penninerved, rarely 3-nerved ; buds 
naked or Sealy. Flowers small, diccious, umbellate or capitate ; 
umbels 4-6., rarely more-flowered, sessile or short-peduncled ; 
peduncles clustered, rarely solitary, axillary or in scars of fallen 
snequal, sometimes small, in a few obsolete. 3 Stamens 9 or 12 
'n 3-merous, 6 in 2-merous flowers, sometimes by abortion fewer 
than 6, rarely more than 12; of the two outer series with usuall 
eglandular filaments; of the third row and, if present at all, of 
the fourth row, with 2-glandular filaments; anthers of all rows 
Introrsely 4-celled, or occasionally with the lower cells of anthers 
ral. Ovary minute empty, or obsolete, very 
rarely perfect, ¢ Staminodes 9 or 12, or in 2-merous flowers 6. 
~~ much enlarged, discoid or cupular perianth-tube. Seed with 
thin testa, 
