Lindera.] LAURINEA, 309 
3. L. Neesiana (Aperula Neesiana, Bl.).—A_ leaf-shedding (?) 
tree (25—30+ (?) +14—24), all parts quite glabrous and highly 
aromatic ; leaves variable, from ovate-lanceolate and almost lanceo- 
—Not unfrequent in the drier hill forests from Martaban down to 
Upper Tenasserim, at 4,000 to 5,000 ft. elevation—FI. Feb.; Fr. Apr.—l.— 
S.=Metam. 
Remarxs.—Yields excellent sassafras. 
HERNANDIA, L. 
Flowers monoecious. Perianth-segments in two series, all val- 
vate in bud, the rows in the males consisting each of 3 or 4, in the 
females of 4 or 5 segments. Males: stamens as many as outer 
perianth-segments and opposite to them, at the base usually 2- 
rarely 1-glandular; anthers 2-celled, introrse, the valves separating 
‘aterally from the inner to the outer edge. Female flowers inserted 
i a cup-shaped or lobed involucel ; glands or staminodes as many as 
outer perianth-segments and opposite to them. Ovary inferior, 
fleshy ; style short, thick, with a dilated irregularly toothed or lobed 
stigma. Fruit somewhat fleshy or coriaceous, indehiscent, enclosed 
m the enlarged fleshy involucel. Seeds globose, without albumen. 
Embryo with thick, fleshy, deeply lobed cotyledons.—Trees, with 
alternate, peltate, or palmately nerved leaves. Flowers in loose 
peduncled lateral panicles, the branchings of which terminate in an 
mvolucre of 4 or 5 whorled bracts enclosing 3 flowers (the central 
ower female, sessile within the cup-shaped involucel, the 2 lateral 
_ ones male and pedicelled). 
: 1. H, peltata, Meissn.; Bedd. Sylv. Madr., t. 300.—An ever- 
Sreen tree (40—50+25—20+4 5—12), all parts glabrous; leaves 
broadly ovate or rotundate-ovate, peltate, sinuate at the base, on 
a 3-5 in. long petiole, acute or shorlty acuminate, palmately nerved, 
