Beilschmiedia.] LXII. LAUKINEiE. 379 



A small evergreen tree with dark-green shady foliage. Leaves glabrous, 

 shining, thick-coriaceous, subopposite or alternate, 4-6 in. long, elliptic- 

 oblong, main lateral nerves 6-8 on either side of midrib, joined by promi- 

 nent reticulate veins, petiole 1 in. long. Mowers whitish, in short axil- 

 lary racemes, peduncles, pedicels and perianth pubescent, stamens strigose, 

 with short white hairs, glands and staminodes yellow, thick, fleshy, stipi- 

 tate, Berry 2 in. long, dark purple when ripe, with much whitish grey 

 bloom, which rubs off easily, pulp pale yellow. 



Burma, East Bengal, Nepal, Oudh forests (sparingly in moist shady ravines 

 of the Gonda and Baraich district), Durga Deo forest in Kamaon ? leaves only, 

 D.B. PI. April. Attains 30 ft. and 6 ft. girth. Bark smootMsh, grey or 

 brown, -peeling off in smaU corky scales, inner substance red, ^ in. thick. Heart- 

 wood smaU, dark grey, sapwood white. 



£. fagifoUa, Nees ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 263 ; of Canara and the Konkan, is 

 very similar. DalzeU, Bombay Fl. 222, refers the tree of the Bombay Ghats to 

 B. Roxburghiana. 



5. TETBANTHERA, Japq. 



Trees or shrubs with alternate, rarely subopposite leaves. Flowers 

 dioicous, in small umbels or clusters (flower-heads), enclosed in bud by 

 an involucre of 4-6 large concave deciduous imbricate bracts, arranged in 

 short racemes or clusters, axillary, or in the axils of fallen leaves. Peri- 

 anth-segments usually 6, equal or nearly so, sometimes wanting. Male 

 flowers : stamens 9-12, sometimes more, all poUeniferous ; filaments of the 

 inner stamens with 2 glands at the base, anthers 4-celled, those of the 

 inner stamens sometimes 2-celled. Female flowers : ovary free, 1 -celled, 

 1-ovuled ; stigma dilated andlobed, staminodes sterile or wanting. Berry 

 supported by the flattened or cup-shaped base of the perianth. 



Perianth of a few hairy subulate deciduous segments, or want- 

 ing ; flower-heads in pedunculate umbels or corymbs . 1. T. laurifolia. 

 Perianth 6-cleft ; flower-heads in sessile umbels or clusters . 2. T. monopetala. 



,1. T. laurifolia, Jacq. ; DC. Prodr. xv. i. 178. — Syn. T. apetala, 

 Eoxb. Cor. PI. t. 147; Fl. Ind. iii. 819; T. Roxhurghii, Nees. Vern. 

 Maida, meda lakri* Ph., N.W.P. ; Gwa, ridn, chandra, Pb. ; Gar 

 hijaur* singrauf, N.W.P. ; Medh, Oudh ; 'Menda, C.P. ; Ungdungnet, 

 Burm. 



A middle-sized evergreen tree, very variable, branchlets inflorescence 

 and leaves more or less pubescent, the older leaves often glabrate. Leaves 

 alternate, ovate ovate-lanceolate elliptic- or obovate-oblong, pale beneath, 



* Madden (see footnote to p. 377) gives these names to T. frviicosa, Eoxb. But 

 this is a shrub with racemose flower-Eeads, probably synonymous with T. glabrata, 

 "Wall. (Lepidadenia glabrata, Wight Ic. t. 1838) ; and T. Pcmamonja, Hamilton ; 

 Wight Ic. t. 1836 ; DC. Prodr. xv. i. 197. Roxburgh's T. fruticosa is from Silhet 

 (fl. June-July) ; L. glabrata from the Pulneys, the Nilgiris, and Mergui (Wight) ; 

 and T. Panamonja has been found in Assam, Mergui, and (according to Wight) near 

 Courtallnm. 



