Machilus.] LAURINEE. 293 
1. A. grandis, NE.—An evergreen tree (60—90 4+ 30—40 
+4—10), the young shoots usually minutely tawny-puberulous, 
the branchlets white ; bark rather even, covered with small warts, 
greenish grey, nearly an inch thick ; cut dry, brown; leaves o 
vate-oblong to obovate, more or less cuneate at the base, on a 
glabrous stiff petiole 1-14 in. long, shortly and bluntish acumi- 
nate, varying in size from 4-9 inches, thin and rigidly coriaceous 
when full-grown, glabrous, glaucescent beneath ; flowers minute, 
on slender 14-2 lin. long puberulous pedicels, forming slender, loose, 
eymose, slightly puberulous, or glabrescent panicles on long, com- 
pressed, glabrous peduncles arising from the axils of the upper 
leaves or crowded at the end of the branchlets ; perianth minutely 
appressed-pubescent outside, the segments ovate, rather acute, about 
3 lin. long ; stamens rusty-villous ; fruiting pedicels curved, up to 
an inch long, elongate-club-shaped, thick and warted ; fruits ellip- 
tical or oval, from | to nearly 2 in. long, fleshy, bluish black an 
pruinose, smooth. 
Haz.—Frequent in the tropical forests of the southern and eastern slopes of 
the Pegu Yomah, Arracan an down to Tenasserim.—Fr. March- 
Apr.—s.—S$S.=SiS. Metam. Lat. p. 
Remarxs.—Wood yellowish, turning brown on exposure to the air, heavy, 
_ fibrous, rather loose-grained. 
BEILSCHMIEDIA, NE. 
Flowers usually those of A/seodaphne. Perianth deciduous, the 
segments usually nearly equal, sometimes minute. imper- 
taminodes almost sessile or altogether wanting. Berry ovate, 
resting on the very short, thickened, but not fleshy pedicel.—Trees, 
with alternating, penninerved, and much net-veined leaves often 
crowded at the end of the branches. Flowers in loose, usually 
sit simple, cymose panicles or racemes in the axils of the upper 
eaves, 
Petiole $-1 in. long, glabrous; perianth-segments about 1} lin. 
. blon : : : : ‘ = ‘ . B. Roxburghiana, 
As former, but fruits spherical . 9 =. 2. +) ee Be globularia, 
Petiole 14-3 lin. long, thick, shortly tomentose ; perianth-segments 
ins les. 8 cel oe eee eee 
1. B, Roxburghiana, NE. ; Brand. For. Fl. 378.—Shaw-htoo- 
pen.—A_ leaf-shedding tree (50—120 +25—60 + 4—9), the leaf- 
buds minutely appressed-pubescent ; leaves appearing with the 
Wers, membranous and smooth, when full-grown 6 to 8 in. long, 
ovate-oblong to ovate, bluntish acuminate and occasionally blunt, , 
on a glabrous petiole 4-1 in. long, thin-coriaceous, glabrous, shin- 
