Daphnidium.) LAURINER. 307 
ceous, 5-6 in. long, glabrous or the ribs towards'the base puberu- 
lous, 3-nerved or triplinerved, glaucous beneath, the transverse 
Hap.—Frequent in the drier hill forests of the Martaban hills east of 
Tounghoo, up to 6,000 ft. elevation.—l.—SS.—Metam. 
2. D. caudatum, NE.—An evergreen tree (25—30+8—12+ 
2—3), all parts more or less shortly tomentose ; leaves lanceolate to 
versely veined between the tawny-pubescent nerves ; flowers minute, 
tracted, almost sessile, forming dense, small, rusty- or tawny-tomen- 
tose clusters in the axils of the leaves; filaments slender, pubes- 
cent; berries globular, the size of a pea, supported by the 6-parted 
spreading perianth resting on a 1-14 lin. long pedicel hardly 
thickened at the apex. 
Has.—Common in the drier hill forests of Martaban and Tenasserim, at 
elevations above 4,000 ft.—Fl. March.—l.—SS.—Metam. : 
3. D. argenteum, Kz.—A leaf-shedding tree (30-—40+10— 
154+3—5), the young shoots silvery silk-hairy; bark grey, 4 + 
in. thick, brittle, roughish from minute pieces peeling off ; cut 
brown, dry ; leaves lanceolate to broad-lanceolate, acuminate at 
both ends, on an appressed silvery-pubescent glabrescent petiole 
3 to 5 lin. long, 34-64 in. long, firmly membranous, glabrous above, 
beneath appressed silvery-pubescent, penninerved, on both sides 
laxly net-veined 3; flowers greenish yellow, on very short tomentose 
pedicels, forming a short densely tomentose raceme at the base 
mvoluered by the pubescent concave bracts and while in bud form- 
mg globular, pubescent, imbricate-bracted buds; perianth 6-cleft, 
appressed-pubescent outside ; anthers 2-celled, the filaments almost 
glabrous, 
Has.—No i low and Eng forests of the eastern slopes of 
the Pagu Yomuah and fu Martebee,--FL. Marche te SSecbat, Motasn Arg. 
. REMaRrKs.—Wood y wish, turning pale-greyish brown, rather heavy, 
fibrous, rather slldaaptidenk: tolerably adit soe stacked by xylophages. 
7 LINDERA, Thbg. 
Flowers dioecious, the perianth 4- or 6-parted, deciduous, Sta- 
