306 LAURINEE. [ Litsaea. 
short, tawny-villous, simple racemes in the axils of ‘the leaves and 
shorter than the petiole; filaments glabrous. 
Has.—Probably Tenasserim. 
5. L. foliosa, NE.—An evergreen tree (40—50-+ (?) + 3—4), all 
parts quite glabrous; bark grey ; leaves oblong to ovate-lanceolate, 
more or less acuminate at the base, on a slender glabrous petiole 
6-7 lin. long, bluntish acuminate, 3-43 in. long, thin-coriaceous, 
glabrous, more or less glaucous beneath, triplinerved, with 2 3 
nerves at each side, the nerves prominent above, beneath less so and 
the net-veination almost obsolete ; inflorescence while in bud almost 
Has.—Not unfrequent in the damp hill forests of the Martaban hills east 
-r ae at 3,000 to 7,000 ft. elevation; also Chittagong.—s.—SS.—= 
etam. 
ReEMARKS.— Wood white. 
ET a esnae A Te RE NAPS aN Nee 
DAPHNIDIUM, NE. 
vanes dioecious. Perianth 6-lobed, the tube shortly obeonical. 
Ee SIP Ne ee 
Stamens 9, the 3 innermost ones 2-clandular; anthers (in the 
females abortive) all 2-celled. Ovary in the males rudimentary. 
Berry seated on an entire receptacle or supported by the 6-lobed - 
perianth, the pedicels thickened upwards.—Trees or shrubs, wit 
alternate triplinerved or rarely penninerved leaves. Inflorescence 
in bud concealed in the scaly almost sessile axillary bud-scales; 
flowers clustered or fascicled, very rarely solitary, sometimes i 
almost umbellate with a 4-leaved proper involucre. 
x Leaves triplinerved. 
Leaves glabrous, glaucous beneath oboe eee Dea 
Leaves densely and shortly tawny-pubescent beneath . @ . D. eaudatum. 
Xx X Leaves penninerved, e 
Leaves beautifully appressed silvery-pubescent beneath ; flowers in 
very short racemes. : . . é ° . . . D. argenteum. 
at se, etiole 
‘5-7 lin. long, long and almost caudate-acuminate, firmly charta- 
