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Litscea] 



XCI. LAURACE^ 



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539 



serim. Malay Penins. A large tree, young shoots minutely puberulous. L. glabrous, 

 thinly coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, blade 6-8, pet. ^-1 in. S racemes slender, drooping, 

 5-7 in. long. -^ \,_ 



/?. Western species. . t, 



39. L. Wightiana, Hook, f.— Syn. Cylicodaphne Wightiana, Nees ; Wight 

 Ic. t. 1833; Tetranthera Wightiana, Wall. ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 293. Vern. 

 Kenju, Nilg. ; Hamynadi, Kan. 



Fig. 180. 



LitsBea Wightiana. 



Hook. f. 



A large tree, branchlets, petioles, underside of 1. and inflorescence clothed 

 with dense rusty-tomentum. L. coriaceous, elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, 

 blade 3-9, pet. {-\ in., sec. n. 8-15 pair impressed above, prominent beneath. 

 ^ heads \ in. diam. before opening, racemes 1-4 in. long, perianth tomentose, 

 stamens 12, filaments hairy. Fr. f in. long, base enclosed in the cup-shaped,' 

 more or less lobed, perianth. 



Western Ghats in evergreen forest, from North Kanara southwards. Fl. July-Nov.. 

 40. L. Beddomei, Hook. f. Tinnevelli hills. L. silvery glaucous beneath, narrow lanceo- 

 late, blade 2-3, pet. i in. 41. L. Stocksii, Hook. f. Western Ghats from Mahabaleshwar 

 southwards. A moderate-sized tree, glabrous, except the brown velvety inflorescence, 

 and very minute hairs occasionally on the underside of 1. L. coriaceous, glaucous 

 beneath, elliptic-oblong or oblanceolate, blade 4-7, pet. |-1 in. S heads |-J in. diam. 

 before opening, racemes stout 1-3 in. long, perianth grey silky. Nearly allied to 39.' 

 42. L. glabrata, Wall. (Te^rofw^/iem). Dindigal. Travancore. A small or middle-sized 

 tree, youngest shoots minutely silky. L. glabrous, elongate-elliptic, blade 5-7, pet. I in. 

 sec. n. faint. S racemes 3-5 in. long. ' 



43. L. oleoides, Meissn. Nilgiris. Youngest shoots and racemes finely grey-silky, 

 otherwise quite glabrous, branchlets stout. L. usually opposite or nearly so, rigidly 

 coriaceous, elongate-elliptic, blade 3-5, pet. stout, I in., sec. n. faint, midrib prominent 

 beneath. S heads ^ in. diam., racemes erect, 2 in. long. Fr. globose, seated on the 

 broad turbinate perianth-tube. 



^ III. L. persistent, more or less triplinerved. Fl.-heads in sessile clusters. 

 ?manth turbinate, segments usually 4, deciduous. Stamens usually 6* the 2 

 inner biglandular. Ferianth-tube not enlarged in fr. In Engler u. Frantl 

 iii. 2. 119, the species of this section are classed under a separate genus : 

 Tetradenia^ Nees. 



