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dotted, beneath glaucous, minutely areolate: flowers fascicled, 

 rufous-silky. 



Neilgherries. 



(5) A. OBOTATA. (Blume.) 

 Ident. Dec. 1. c. p. 219. 



Syn. Tetranthera obovata. Ham. ex Wall. — Tedradenia obo- 

 vata, Nees in Wall. I. c. p. 64. — Litssea obovata, Nees Syst. Law. 



Spec. Chab. Tree : leaves chartaceous, large, acute at the 

 base, elliptic or obovate-oblong, acuminate, triplinerved, shining 

 and glabrous above, beneath glaucous,, veined, puberulous or 

 glabrous : racemes longer than the petiole, tawny-villous. 



Silhet. Assam. 



GENUS XII. LITS^A. 

 Vicecia Hexandria. Sex : Syst .- 



GrEir. Chab, Elowers dioecious: buds covered with scales: 

 calyx 4 — ;6-parted, lobes deciduous. Male : stamens 6, inner 4 

 or 2 with 2 glands at the base : anthers introrse, 4-celled. Fe- 

 male : stamens sterile, 4 or 6, strap-shaped or spathulate, inner- 

 most 2 or 3 furnished with a free or adnate gland on both sides : 

 style filiform : stigma discoid : fruit a berry: pedicel, thickened or 

 obconical. — Trees or shrubs: leaves scattered: flower-bearing 

 buds axiUary, sessile, or very shortly peduncled: scales imbri- 

 cated, deciduous : flowers fascicled or glomerate. 



(1) L. Zetlaitica. (Wees.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. XV. p. 226. 



Syn. Cassia Cinnamomea, Pluh. — Laurus Cassia, Linn. — L. 

 involucrata, Vahl. — L. Ceylania, Nees. — Tetradenia Zeylanica, do. 

 in Wall. pi. As. rar. II. jp. 64. . 



Spec. Chab. Small tree or shrub : leaves chartaceous, lanceo- 

 late or oblong, attenuately subacute or acuminate, triplinerved, 

 few-ribbed, above glabrous, beneath glaucous, and with the 

 younger branchlets minutely silky-puberulous, afterwards gla- 

 brate : glomerules solitary or aggregate : yellowish-tomentose, 

 silky. 



Peninsula. Malabar. Travancore. Western slopes of the 

 Neilgherries. 



Var. a. cowcoi-OB. — Leaves lanceolate, more deeply tripli- 

 nerved, dotted or scrobieulately areolate on both sides : nearly of 

 the same colour, beneath paler, scarcely glaucescent. — L. oblonga, 

 Nees Syst.— Wight's Icon. t. 1844. 



Neilgherries. 



