292 LAURINER. [ Machilus. 
2. M. rimosa, Bl.—A tree; leaves 2-34 in. long, coriaceous, 
tapering or cuneate at the base, on a strong 6-9 lin. long petiole, 
acute, oblong or lanceolate-oblong, along with the branchlets glab- 
rous, on both sides somewhat immersed-ribbed and minutely 
areolate, glaucous beneath, the leaf-buds oblong, tawny silk-hairy, 
the scales blunt and glabrescent along the margins, the lower ones 
broadly ovate, the upper ones oblong ; panicles 3-4 in. long, branched 
from above their middle, somewhat longer than the leaves, the 
peduncle rather glabrous; perianth minutely grey-tomentose and 
almost silky, as long as the hardly 13 lin. long pedicel, the seg- 
ments oval, bluntish.— (After Meissner.) 
Has.—Tenasserim. 
3. M. fruticosa, Kz—A glabrous shrub, the leaf-buds velvety ; 
leaves ovate to ovate-oblong, 24-4 in. long, rounded at the base 
and a little decurrent on the strong, broad, glabrous petiole 2-5 lin. 
long, glabrous, rigidly coriaceous, blunt and occasionally rotundate 
at the apex, glaucous beneath, the margins recurved, the nerves 
and the copious net-veination almost equally prominent ; flowers | 
Has.—Upper Tenasserim, at 4,000 ft. elevation. 
- M. Tavoyana, Meissn.—A tree, the younger branchlets and 
buds minutely yellowish villous, lenticellate; leaves rather thin, 
hardly chartaceous, elongate-oblong, much narrowed at both ends, 
5-7 in. long, on a slender 10-15 lin. long petiole, glabrous, one- 
coloured, obsoletely immersed-veined, the nerves on both sides 
slightly prominent; panicles almost terminal, 5-6 in. long, as long 
as the leaves, puberulous; perianth almost silky-canescent and 
glabrescent, as long as the 2 lin. long pedicels, the segments ovate, 
acute, the outer ones somewhat shorter—(After Meissner.) | 
Has.—Tenasserim, 
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