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flower- bearing buds axillary, subsessile: flowers fascicled or 

 glomerate or rarely solitary, covered or umbellate, and supported 

 by their own 4-leaved involucre. 



(1) D. MEiosTAMACErM. (Nees.) 



Ident. Nees in "Wall. pi. As. rar. II. p. 63.— Dec. prod. XV. 

 p. 228. 



Spec. Chae. Small tree : leaves coriaceous, acute at the base, 

 oval and oblong, obtusely acuminated, prominently 3-nerved on 

 both sides, transversely veined, lateral nerves disappearing towards 

 the apex : flower-buds subaggregate, sessile, few-flowered. 



Silhet. Assam. Khasia. 



(2) D. PTOCHEEEiMUM. (ATees.) 

 Ident. Nees 1. c. p. 63.— Dec. 1. c. p. 229. 



Spec. Chae. Small tree : leaves chartaceo-coriaceous, acute at 

 the base, oblong or lanceolate, narrowly and acutely caudate-acumi- 

 nate, tri- or rarely triplinerved, transversely, veined, glabrous 

 above, beneath lavender-coloured or whitish, sparingly puberu- 

 lous or glabrate: flower-buds glomerately fascicled on a short 

 peduncle, silky. 



Khasia. Assam. 



(3) D. CATJDATTJM. (JN'ees.) 



Ident. Nees 1. c. — Dec. 1. c. p. 230. 



Spec. Chae. Shrub : leaves chartaceous, acute or obtuse at 

 the base, oblong-lanceolate, attenuate, acuminate, 3-nerved at the 

 top, glabrous above, beneath veined, tawny-tomentose together with 

 the branchlets and flower-buds, nerves very prominent above and 

 strongly veiued beneath. 



Silhet. Assam. Khasia. 



(4) D. BiEAEnjM. {Nees.) 



Ident. Nees 1. c. — Dec. 1. c. p. 231. 



Syn. Laurus nacusua, Don. prod. flor. Nep. p. 64. 



Spec. Chae. Small tree : leaves chaxtaceous, acute or obtuse 

 at the base, oblong or lanceolate, acuminate, of the same colour, 

 glabrous, shining or obsoletely dotted above, beneath finely veined 

 or reticulated, and with the branchlets tawny-tomentose : leaf-buds 

 many-flowered, scales deciduous : pedicels hoary-tomentose. 



Assam. Khasia. 



