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2. ALSEODAPHNE, Nees. 



1. Semicarpifolia, Nees. — Arboreous; leaves obovate, cunei- 

 form, glaucous, glabrous, penninerved beneath ; panicles terminal, 

 cymosely umbelled on the ends of the branches. The Ghauts. 

 Wight Ic. t. 1826. 



3. BEILSCHMIEDIA, Nees. 



1. RoxBURGHiANA, Nees. — Arboreous with a straight trunk, 

 and wide-spreading branches ; leaves opposite and alternate, broad 

 lanceolar shining, veined ; racemes solitary, under the leaves, or axil- 

 lary, filaments without glands; nectaries 9; anthers bilocular ; berries 

 oblong, glaucous. Wight Ic. t. 1828 ; Lauras bilocularis, Roxb. 

 Fl. Ind. ii, p 311. Common on the Ghauts. 



4. CRYPTOCARYA, R. Br. 



1 . Floribunda, Nees. — A tree ; leaves oval-oblong, abruptly 

 shortly-acuminate, coarsely venoso-reticulate and glaucous beneath, 

 glabrous and shining above, pubescent on the veins beneath ; 

 panicles axillary, the terminal one dichotomous, naked, yellowish, 

 tomentose. Plentiful at Tullawaree. Wight Ic. <. 1829. 



5. TETRANTHERA, Jacquin. 



1. Apetala, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii, p 819. — A middle-sized tree; 

 leaves petioled, oval-obtuse, smooth, shining above, 3 to h inches 

 long, 2 to 3 inches broad ; petioles one inch long, round and 

 pmooth ; peduncles solitary axillary, as long as the petioles, 3 to 4 

 cleft; pedicels shorter than the peduncles, each supporting a small 

 umbellet of minute flowers ; male involucre 4-leaved, containing 

 8 to 12 pedicelled corollets ; leaflets orbicular, concave, caducous, 

 perianth none ; calyx campanulate ; female flowers on a separate 

 tree ; involucre and calyx as in the male ; berry globular, smooth, 

 black when ripe and almost dry, of the size of a pea, resting on 

 the clubbed pedicel. At Vingoila ; flowers in June. Syn. tomen- 

 tosa, Roxb. Ex. Wight Ic. t. 1 834 ; flowers apetalous ; umbels axil- 

 lary, solitary, peduncled ; leaves elliptic-oblong, somewhat acute at 

 both ends, beneath, with the petioles and young branchlets, whitish 

 tomentose. Common on the Ghauts. 



6. CYLICODAPHNE, Nees. 



1. WiGHTiANA, Nees. — A tree with broad-lanceolate leaves, 

 crowded about the ends of the branches, under surface clothed with 



