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(4) L. STEioLATA. (Blume.) 

 Ident. Dec. 1. c. p. 223. 



Spec. Chae. Small tree : upper leaves nearly opposite, longish- 

 petioled, coriaceous, acute at tte base, oval aud oblong, caudate- 

 acuminate, triplinerved, veins thin, densely transversely striolate, 

 not dotted, glabrous, beneath lavender-glaucous, afterwards of 

 the same colour : glomerules silky, soon glabrate. 



Silhet. Khasia. 



(5) L. sciiOBiCTTLATA. {Mdssn!) 



Ident. Dec. 1. c. p. 223. 



Spec. Chae. Tree : leaves stiffly coriaceous, long-petioled, 

 acute at the base, ovate-eUiptic or oblong, acuminate, tripli- 

 nerved, above or on both sides serobiculately areolate, glabrous, 

 beneath glaucous or afterwards of the same colour: glomerules 

 subsessile, sparingly silky, puberulous or glabrate. 



Neilgherries. 



(6) L. UMBEOSA. (Nees.) 



Ident. Dec. 1. c. p. 223.— Nees Syst. p. 623. 



Stfn Tetranthera umbrosa. Wall. — Laurus umbrosa. Wees op 

 Wall. I. c.p. 64. 



Spec. Chae. Small tree: leaves short-petioled, coriaceous, 

 acute at the base, elliptic and oblong, acuminate, triplinerved, 

 smooth, glabrous, beneath glaucous : glomerules almost solitary, 

 tawny-tomentose, silky. 



SUhet. 



Var. a. Khastana. — Leaves above or on both sides dotted- 

 areolate, often transversely veined, beneath glaucous. 



Assam. Khasia. 



GENUS XIII. DAPHNIDIUM. 

 Dicecia Enneandria. Sex: Syst: 



Derw. A dimiuutive of Daphne. 



Gek. Chae. Plowers dicecious : scales of the flower-bud covered 

 or involucrate : calyx 6 — 9-parted, lobes deciduous. Male : 

 stamens 9 or very rarely more, innermost 3 furnished with a 

 sessile or stalked gland on each side of the base : anthers introrse, 

 2-celled : staminodes none. Ebmaie : stamens sterile, innermost 

 3 biglandulose at the base : style filiform, thickish : stigma dilated, 

 somewhat 2-lobed : berry pla,ced at the base of the calyx. — Trees 

 or shrubs : leaves scattered, palmate, or rarely feather-nerved : 



