HAASIA WIGHTII. (Nat. order Laurinea.) 



ilAASIA, Blumc— GEN. CHAR. Flowers hermaphrodite or by abortion monaeciouB, calyx rather fleshy 6-5 cleft wholly deciduous, lobes 

 unequal, exterior ones generally small, stamens 9 or 7 fertile all 2-celled, the 6-5 outer ones introrse, the 3-2 inner ones extrorse and furnished at the base 

 with 2 sessile glands. Staminodes 3 triangular subsessile, or wanting. Style filiform. Stigma discoid triangular. B^rry oval naked seated on the thickened 

 fleshy pedicel. Trees, leaves generally towards the apex of the branches, penni veined, panicles subterminal, flowers few small naked. 



-HAASIA "WlQHTII. (Nees.) A good sized tree glabrous, leaves subopposite coriaceous elliptic acute at both ends 

 rather shining, of the same color on both sides or a little paler beneath, finely reticulated, 4-6 inches long by \ -2\ inches broad, petiole 

 slender 4-9 lines long, panicles axillary 1-4 inches long, the branchlets 3-flowered, flowers hermathrodite, staminodes large and con. 

 spicuous pellucid-dotted, fruit-pedicel somewhat thickened 3-4 lines long, berry oblong £ an inch long. Nees; — DO. Prod.xv. p. 61 ; — 

 Wight Icones lab. 1831. 



This tree is not uncommon in the moist woods on the Tinnevelly and Travancore range of ghxts at 2000-3000 feet elevation, and I have 

 specimens from the Anamallays from an elevation of 4,000 feet. Nothing whatever is known of the timber of this and many other* of the Laurinex, 

 and it U important that Forest officers should pay atten tion to this order. 



A nalysis. 



1. Portion of a panicle shewing the bud and full flower. 



2. A 6-parted full flower stamens 9, the 6 outer with 2-celled introrse anthers, the 3 inner with 2-celled extrorse antherl and 



with 2 glands at the base, staminodes 3. 



3. A 5-parted flower opened out, outer stamens only 5, inner 2, staminodes 3. 



4. A lobe of the perianth or calyx. 



5. An outer introrse stamen. 



6. A staminode. 



7. An inner extrorse stamen with its 2 glands. 



8. Ovary cut vertically. 



9. Ovary cut transversely. 



10. A fruit, the berry seated on the thickened fleshy pedicel, the calyx having fallen away. 



11. Transverse section of the berry. 



12. "Vertical section of the same. 



13. The seed. (All drawn from living specimens.) 



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