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(4) P. aLAUCEsoENs. (Nees.) 



Ident. Dec. 1. c. p. 36. 



8yn. Ocotea glauceacena, Wall. I. c. 



Spec. Chae. Small tree : leaves coriaceous, elliptic or oblong, 

 obtusely acuminated, somewhat glaucous, glabrous, shining above, 

 prominently veined beneath : panicles collected into a terminal 

 corymb, branched from the middle or below : peduncles covered 

 with loose tawny villous hairs : flowers slightly tomentose. 



Var. a. FtrLVESCENS. — Panicles longer, tawny or somewhat 

 rusty-coloured. — Laurus glaucescens, Boxb. S. -S. 



SUhet. Assam. 



Var. b. CANESCENS. — Panicles shorter, whitish or whitish- 

 hoary. 



Ohittagong. 



(5) P. ATTENUATA. {Nees.) 



Ident. Dec. 1. c. p. 38. 



Syn. Ocotea attenuata, Wall. I. c. p. 71. 



Spec. Chae. Small tree: leaves coriaceous, oblong, ribbed, 

 glabrous above, tawny puberulous beneath : ribs and veins thin, 

 immersed above, prominent beneath : panicle equalling the leaf, 

 collected into a terminal corymb, long-peduncled, hoary- 

 tomentose. 



Silhet. 



GENUS IV. MACHILUS. 

 Enneandria Honogynia. Sex .- Si/st i 



Gen. Chae. Flowers hermaphrodite, panicled, naked : calyx 

 chartaceous, deeply 6-parted, all persistent, unchanged, lobes 

 equal, or outer ones a little shorter : filaments filiform, inner 

 3 furnished above the base with a stipitate gland on either 

 side : anthers oblong, 4-celled, inner 3 extrorse : staminodes 3, 

 without glands, capitulum cordate : style filiform : stigma discoid : 

 berry sessile, globose, supported by the calyx. — Trees : leaf- 

 bearing buds imbricately scaled : leaves alternate, penninerved : 

 panicles subcorymbose, springing from the base of a terminal or 

 axillary leaf-bud : bracteal scales deciduous : flowers usually large 

 for the order. 



