308 LAURINES. [Lindera. 
Trees or shrubs, evergreen or deciduous, with penninerved or tri- 
plinerved simple or 3-lobed leaves, the leaf-buds completely or in- 
completely enveloped by scales. Flowers forming clustered, pedun- 
cled, small umbels or clusters surrounded by a 4-leaved deciduous 
involucre, the female flowers sometimes solitary. 
* Leaves chartaceous or almost coriaceous, elegantly and 
prominently net-veined, the reticulations narrow 
Peduncles slightly pubescent, nearly an inch long; perianth pubes. 
cen’ . . : ; * ‘ ; ‘ : . L. Assamica. 
Peduncles quite glabrous, 3-4 lin, long; perianth glabrous ‘ . L. nervosa. 
Leaves membranous, very laaly reticulate; all parts 
glabrous . . <3 z = s : . L. Neesiana. 
1. L. Assamica ( Aperula Assamica, Meissn.).—A tree, the 
young branchlets sparingly tawny-pubescent ; leaves lanceolate, on 
a slender petiole about 3 in. long, acuminate at the base, 4-5 in. 
long, caudate-acuminate, rigidly chartaceous, somewhat waved along 
Pes a oN ge forests of Arracan and Upper Tenasserim.—Fr. ro 
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