Phoebe^ LXII. LAUKINE^E. 377 



■with twin glands at their base, and extrorse anthers, alternating with 3 

 short staminodia. Ovary free ; style filiform, stigma discoid. Fruit a 

 1 -seeded herry, supported by the persistent, somewhat enlarged and in- 

 durated 6-cleft perianth, fruit-bearing pedicel thickened. 



1. P. lanceolata, IsTees ; Wight Ic. 1. 1821. — Sjn. Laurus lanceolaria, 

 Eoxb. n. Ind. ii. 309 ; Ocotea lanceolata, Nees in Wall. PI. As. rar. ii. 

 71. Vern. Chan, chandra, badror, shalanghi, Ph.; Haulia, dandora, 

 Icdwal, sun kauwal, bilphari, N.W.P. 



A shrub or middle-sized tree, glabrous, only youngest branchlets pu- 

 bescent. Leaves alternate, often approximate and subverticiUate at the 

 base of the flower-panicles, lanceolate, 6-9 in. long, narrowed into a short 

 petiole ; main lateral nerves 6-10 pair, joined by more or less prominent 

 reticulate veins. Mowers pale yellow, in lax pedunculate axillary panicles, 

 often congregated in the axils of the upper leaves, pedicels a little longer 

 than perianth. Perianth glabrous outside, the segments acute, edge finely 

 ciliate, hairy inside. Inner series of stamens and staminodia hairy, stam- 

 inodia obtusely sagittate, on a short stalk. Fruit black, succulent, oblong- 

 ovoid, |- in. long. 



Outer Himalayan ranges, from Bhutan to the Jumna, ascending to 6000 ft. 

 (west to the Jhelam, not common, J.L.S.) Kasia hills, Silhet, Upper Burma 

 (Bhamo on the Irawaddi). Fl. Feb.-June ; the fruit ripens June-July. 



P. pallida, Nees ; DC. Prodr. xv. i. 34, a small tree with pubescent panicles 

 and perianth, and somewhat more coriaceous leaves, is probably only a pubes- 

 cent variety ; I can find no other distinguishing characters. Kamaon, Nepal, 

 ascending to 5000 ft. Moist ravines of eastern Oudh forests. Fl. June. 



P. paniculata, Nees ; DC. Prodr. xv. i. 37 — Syn. P. inllosa, Wight Ic. t. 

 1822 ; Laurus villosa, Eoxb. ii. 310, (probably) with broader leaves, tomentose 

 beneath, tomentose branchlets, petioles, and grey-hairy pardcles and perianth, 

 Nepal, Sikkim, Kasia hUls, Kamaon ? (Madden),* is closely allied to, if not 

 identical with, P. Wightii, Meissner 1. c. 38 ; Wight Ic. t. 1820 (P. paniculata), 

 of the NUgiris. 



Similar in appearance is Apollonias Arnotti, Nees ; Wight Ic. 1. 1819 ; Bedd. 

 Fl. Sylv. t. 291, with 2-ceUed anthers, those of the 6 outer stamens introrse, 

 of the 3 inner ones extrorse. Berry ^ ia. long. Tinnevelljf-, Travancore ghats, 

 Malabar (Beddome), 



3. MACHILUS, Eumphius. 



Evergreen trees. Leaves alternate, penniveined. Flowers bisexual, in 

 terminal and lateral panicles. Perianth divided to the base into 6 biseriate 



* ' ' There (towards the summit of the Kamola Ghat, above the Kotah Doon) is also 

 a species oi Emhelia, with fruit in umbels (probably E. rdbmta, Eoxb., D.B.), and a 

 handsome shrub, Tetirmthera frvticosa, or apetala, which also grows at Punagiri, 

 below Gangoli, &o., and is sometimes known as the Gar-Ujaur, or wild Citron, and 

 Maida or meda-lakri; but the tree particularly so designated, pointed out to me near 

 Eamesar appeared to be Lauras villosa, Eoxb., and its hill-name Kapua kauwal"— 

 Madden 'in As. Soc. Journ. xvii. i. 391. At p. 587 he mentions the same vernac- 

 ular name {Kapua kauwal), as L. tommtosa! Sarda (Sarju) river at the Gangoli or 

 Shera bridge (2500 ft. elev.) 



