I/itscea] 



XCI. LAURACE.E 



539 



serim. Malay Penins. A large tree, young shoots minutely puberulous. L. glabrous, 

 thinly coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, blade 6-8, pet. J-l in. $ racemes slender, drooping, 

 5-7 in. long. 



fi. Western species. 



39. L. Wightiana, Hook. f. — Syn. Cylicodaphne Wight tana, "Sees; Wi^Lt 

 Ic. t. 1833; Tetranthera Wightiana, Wall. ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 293. Vera. 

 Kinjii. Nilg.; Hammadi, Kan. 



Fig. 180. Citssea Wightiana. Hook. f. 



A large tree, hranchlets, petioles, underside of 1. and inflorescence clothed 

 with dense rusty-tnmeutuin. L. coriaceous, elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, 

 blade 3-9, pet. [— 1 in., sec. n. 8-15 pair impressed above, prominent beneath. 

 ^ heads \ in. diam. before opening, racemes 1 I in. long, perianth tomentose, 

 stamens Pi. filaments hairy. Fr. 5 in. l"iig. base enclosed in the cup-shaped, 

 mor ' less tobed, perianth. 



Western Ghats in evergreen forest, from North Kanora southwards. Fl. July Nov. 

 10. L. Beddomei, ll">k. f. Xinnevelli hills. L.silverj glaucous beneath, narrow Ian 

 late, blade 2 3, pet. J in. II. L stocksii, Hook. f. Western Ghats from Mahabalesh war 

 southwards, A moderate-sized tree, glabrous, except the brown velvety inflorescence, 



and very minute hairs occasionally on the underside of I. I., coria us, glaucous 



beneath, elliptic-oblong or obln late, blade I 7. pet, J 1 in. <J heads J— J in. diam. 



before opening, racemes stoul 1 8 in. long, perianth grey silky. Nearly allied to 89. 

 42. L. glabrata, Wall. (Tetranthera). Dindigal. Travancore. A small or middle-sized 

 tree, youngest shoots minutely -ilky. l„ glabrous, elongate-elliptic, blade 5 7, pet. j in., 

 sec 11. faint, t racemes 8 5 in. long. 



18. L. oleoides, Meissn. Nilgiris. Youngest — 1 1 > •» • t — and racemes finely grey-silky, 

 otherwise quite glabrous, branch lets stout. I., usually opposite or nearly so, rigid!) 

 coriaceous, elongate-elliptic, blade ■ > ■">. pet. stout, '. in., seo. n. hunt, midrib prominent 



beneath. ' heads \ in. diam., race 9 erect, 2 in, l'>ng. Fr. globose, seated on the 



broad turbinate perianth-t ube. 



III. L. persistent, more or less triplinerved, Fl.-heads in sessile clusters. 

 Perianth turbinate, segments usually 1. deciduous. Stamens usually ii. the 2 

 inner biglandular. Perianth-tube not enlarged in fr. In Bugler a. Prantl, 

 iii. •_'. L19, the species of this seotiorj are classed under a separate genus: 

 Tit rmli 11 in, Xees. 



