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tomentose : umbels solitary, simple, scarcely exceeding the petiole, 

 many-flowered. 



Peninsula. Hills near Coimbatore. 



Var. GiiABEESCENS. — Leayes elliptic-oblong, attenuated at both 

 ends, acuminated, glabrous above, beneath sparingly puberulous, 

 loosely reticulated, and with the branchlets covered with villous 

 hairs : umbels short-peduncled, often approximated. 



Canara. 



(2) T. LiGTrsTEiNA. {Nees.) 



Ident. Dec. 1. c. p. ISO.^Nees in Wall. 1. c. p. 65. 



Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 1835. 



Spec. Chae. Small tree : leaves subcoriaceous, subcuneate at 

 the base, oblong-lanceolate or obovate, obtuse, densely reticulated 

 on both sides, glabrous : umbels simple, solitary, longish-pe- 

 duncled, many-flowered, glabrous. 



Peninsula. 



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Yar. CELASTEOiDES. — Leaves stifier, reticulation thicker above, 

 at least more prominent : petioles and peduncles longer. 



Neilgherries. 



(3) T. Panamonja. (Hamilt.) 



Ident. Dec. 1. c. p. 197.— Herb. Ham. in Wall. Cat. No. 2553. 

 — Wees in WaU. 1. c. p. 67. 



Mngrav. Wight's Icon. t. 1836. 



Spec. Chae. Large tree : leaves coriaceous, elongated-oblong, 

 shortly attenuated and acute at both ends, veinless between the 

 deep ribs, glabrous, or beneath obsoletely veined and pale : 

 racemes exceeding the petiole, slender, loose, tawny-tomentose. 



Groalpara. Silhet. Assam. CourtaUum. 



(4) T. LAUEIEOLIA. \Jacq.) 



Ident. Dec. 1. c. p. 178.— Nees in Wall. 1. e. p. 66. 3. p. 30. 



Syn. G-labraria tersa. Limn. Mont. p. 276. — Sebifera glu- 

 tinosa, L(ywr. — Tomex sebifera, Willd. — Litsaea sebifera, Pers. — 

 L. dunensis, Lam. 



Spec. Chae. — Tree: leaves elliptic or cuneate-oblong, and 

 obovate, glabrous, or pubescent beneath : umbels fascicled or 

 umbellate on the common peduncle, corymbosely racemose, many- 

 flowered. 



Va/r. a. EoxBTJEGHiT {Blvme). — Dec. 1. c. p. 179.— -T. apetala, 

 Boxb. Cor. II. t. 147. — T. sebifera, Spreng. — Laurus involucrata, 

 Betz. — Litssea sebifera, Juss. — Tomex sebifera, Willd. (partly). — 

 Umbels composite : rays nearly equal to the peduncle or longer '. 



