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(1) M. MACBANTHA. (Nees.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. XV. s. 1. p. 40. 



Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 1824. 



Spec. Chab. Small tree: leaves eUiptic, membranaceous, 

 deeply ribbed, obsoletely reticulated, glabrous, glaucous beneath : 

 panicle canescent, exceeding the leaves : berry middle-sized. 



Neilgherries. 



(2) M. GLAUCESCENS. (iJ. W.) 



Ident. Dec. 1. c. p. 40. 

 Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 1825. 



Spec. Chab. Small tree : leaves coriaceous, oval and oblong, 

 acuminulate or acute, densely, somewhat prominently, reticulated, 

 and with the branohlets glabrous, glaucescent beneath : panicles 

 collected into a terminal corymb equalling the leaves, covered 

 with slight hoary tomentum : berry largish. 



Western slopes of the Neilgherries. Canara. Concans. 



(3) M. ODOEATissiMA. {Nees.) 



Ident. Dec. 1. c. p. 40.— Wall. 1. c. p. 70. 

 Syn. Laurus Indica, Lour. 

 Mngraxi. Eumph. Amb. III. t. 42. 



Spec. Chab. Small tree : leaves chartaceous or coriaceous, 

 sharply oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, shining above, glaucous 

 beneath : panicles collected into a terminal corymb, shorter than 

 the leaf, sUky canescent. 



Silhet. Assam. 



(4) M. Khasiana. (Meissn.) 



Ident. Dec. 1. c. p. 42. 



Spec. Chae. Small tree : leaves chartaceous, elongated-oblong, 

 sharply acuminate, adult ones glabrous, glaucous beneath : pani- 

 cles racemiform, shorter than the leaf, and with the younger 

 branches minutely downy. 



Khasia. 



GENUS V. HAASIA. 



Enneandria Slonogynia. Sex: Si/st: 



Gets. Chab. Flowers hermaphrodite or monoecious by abor- 

 tion, panicled, naked: calyx a little fleshy, 6-cleft, deciduous, 

 lobes unequal, outer 3 usually dwarf: filaments short, broadish, 

 innermost 3 furnished with 2 subsessile glands at the base : 



