304 LAURINEX. [ Dodecadenia. 
DODECADENIA, NE. 
Flowers hermaphrodite, solitary in the imbricately scaled leaf- 
buds. Calyx 6-8-parted, the lobes nearly equal and deciduous. 
Fertile stamens 12-15, all introrse, the outer 6 or 9 glandless, the 
capitate stalked glands; anthers 4-locellate. Ovary pubescent ; 
style short with a funnel-shaped-toothed shaggy stigma. Berry 
ovate, resting on the flat base of the calyx continuous with the 
thickened duncle.—Trees, with scattered penninerved leaves, the 
buds imbricately scaled ; flower-buds axillary and often solitary. 
1. D. diflora NE. —An evergreen tree, the leaf-buds 
appressed-pubescent ; leaves oblong- to Peas ance tS: acute at 
the base, on a slender petiole up to 4} in. long, acuminate or acute, 
2-33 in. long, coriaceous, glabrous ; flowers-clusters densely imbri- 
cate-scaled, sessile, pubescent, axillary and solitary, the scales 
appressed- silky ; 3 berries ovate, about 2-3 lin. long. 
Has.—Ava, Khakyen hills.—Fl. March. 
LITSAEA, a: 
Flowers dioecious.. Perianth 4-6-cleft, = tube shortly obconical, ! 
the lobes almost equal, deciduous. Fertile stamens 6 or 9 (in the 
female flowers often 4-6, ligulate and seine the inner ones 2- 
glandular ; anthers 4- locellate, all introrse. Ovary (in the males 
rudimenta: ree. Berry resting on a cu up-shaped or almost flat 
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Branchlets tomentose ; leaves 4-44 in, long (doubtful species . L. concolor. 
Branchlets and shoots — eae we vill a leaves = . ong, 
very 800 . L. angustifolia. 
As pees but leaves L i ft. g fe elongate, also when ‘adult 
. L. macrophylla. 
or Zeave ns alternate, triplinerved shoes he base 
penninerved further u 
_ Leaves, ete, 2 naag ‘elbros flowers in short tawny-tomentose 
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Ves, te gla rou, glaucous beneath ; flowers in seasile 
— umbels . L. foliosa. — sy 
1. L. concolor ‘tdtthadiplad” conco slob , NE. ).=A 4ree, Te Ge 
branchlets tomentose from rusty-coloured short hairs ; leaves | 
