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(4) 0. FLOEiBUNDA. (JSfees.) 

 Idmt. Dec. 1. c. p. 71.— "Wall. pi. As. rar. II. p. 69. 

 Syn. Laurus floribunda, Wall. Cat. 



Spec. Chab. Leaves coriaceous, oval and oblong, acuminate 

 or obtuse, glabrous on botb sides, transversely veined : glaucine 

 below, obsoletely areolate : panicles lax, hoary -tomentose. 



Assam. SUhet. 



(5) 0. AMYGDALiKA. (Wees.) 



Ident. Dec. 1. c. p. 72.— Wall. 1. c. p. 69. 



Si/n. Laurus amygdalina, Sam. in Wall. Gat. 



Spec. Chae. Leaves subberbaceous, elliptic, short-cuspidate, 

 glabrous on both sides, thinly and densely reticulated : panicles 

 axillary, nearly equalling the leaf, diehotomous : fruit with- 

 out ribs. 



Bengal, near Patgong. 



GENUS IX, TBTEANTHEEA. 



Dioecia Enneandria. Sex ; St/st .- 



Gen. Chae. Flowers dioecious, umbelled, involucred : calyx 

 6-cleft or parted, lobes deciduous, sometimes varying in number 

 or none. • Male : stamens 9 — 12, inserted on the throat, filaments 

 conspicuous, inner ones 3 — 6, with 2 — 1 sessile or stalked glands : 

 all anthers introrse, oval or quadrangular-oblong, muticous, 

 4-celled, cells superposed, straight or oblique, lower ones often 

 slightly lateral : staminodes none or rarely obsolete : rudiment of 

 a pistil scarcely any.-^FEMAiiE : stamens strap-shaped, glandulose : 

 style filiform : stigma dilated, sublobate : berry placed at the top 

 of the calyx, naked. — Trees and shrubs : leaves scattered, feather- 

 nerved, undivided, perennial or seldom deciduous : leaf-buds incom- 

 plete : umbels 4 — many -flowered, surrounded by a 4 — 6-leaved 

 involucre, peduncled, springing from the axillary leaf-bud, solitary 

 or fascicled, or corymbose or racemose on a very short or long 

 common peduncle. 



(1) T. TOMENTOSA. (Soxl.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. XV. s. 1. p. 177.— Nees Syst. Laur. p. 511. 



Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 1834. 



Spec. Chae. Tree : leaves ovate or elliptic-oblong or obovate, 

 above glabrous deeply ribbed, very minutely scrobiculato-reticu- 

 late, beneath prominently veined, loosely or obsoletely reticulated, 

 and with the petiole, branchlets, and involucres densely hoary- 



