246 ILICINEE. [ Daphniphyllum. 
Bee & mpacraphy lie, Wall. ; H.f. Ind. Fl.i. 604.—An evergreen 
small tree 15 ft. hig 
Has.—Tenasserim. 
4, 1. cymosa, Bl.; H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 605.—An evergreen small 
tree, all parts quite glabrous, the branchlets and bark pure white ; 
leaves elliptical to elliptically oblong, on a rather strong petiole 3-4 
lin. long, blunt or bluntish acuminate, 3-5 in. long, rather charta- 
- ceous, entire, pale coloured beneath, the lateral nerves beneath very 
in; flowers 4-5-merous, small, on slender pedicels 3 lin. long, m 
small cymes or umbelets collected in a long-peduncled dichoto- 
mously branched cyme in the axils of the leaves or above the scars 
the fallen ones ; calyx-lobes orbicular ; petals 4-8, unequal, erect, 
concave ; drupes globular, about 2 lin. thick, terminated by a stout 
distinct style, grooved when dry, containing 8 trigonous compressed 
pyrenes. 
Has.—Tenasserim. 
5. I, Wallichii, H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 605.—A shrub or tree (?), glab- 
rous, the branchlets white ; leaves elliptical or elliptically ovate, on 4 
3 in. long petiole, blunt, quite entire, thinly coriaceous, 4-5 in. longs 
pale beneath, the lateral nerves very faint, spreading ; drupes § 12. 
in diameter, terminated by a sessile stigma, containing about 12 
compressed stones. (After Hooker.) 
Has.—Tenasserim. 
APHNIPHYLLUM, BI. 
Flowers unisexual. Calyx 3-8-parted, the lobes persistent oF 
deciduous, imbricate. Petals none. Hypogynous glands 4-6, rather 7 
large, or wanting. Stamens 5-18, central, on a convex receptacle ; - 
anthers opening by 2 slits. Ovary free, 2-celled, with 2 pendulous = 
ovules in each cell; stigmas 2, sessile. Fruit a 1-seeded drupe 
é buminous.—Trees or shrubs, with alternating and often 
crowded simple leaves. Flowers small, in axillary racemes- ; 
Calyx deciduous; pedicels about 1-24in. long. .« . ... .: -D. tila 
Calyx persistent (?); pedicels about }in.long . + + + D. majus- 
1. D. Him: layense, Muell. .—An evergreen tree (50 
+20—25 + 4—6), all parts Sabon leaves oblong to ovate-lancee- 
