3Iyrislica.] 



74. MYRISTICEiE, 



281 



5. M. attenuata. Wall. Cat. 6791 ; FI. Br. I. 5. 110 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 

 176 ; King Ann. Cal. Bot. Gard. III. 316. M. corticosa, Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 

 t. 27 (not of Hook. f. & T.). M. amygdalina, Grab. Cat, Bomb. PI. 175. 

 Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 4. Buht mara^ hedaggal, K. 



Travancore Mountains, 2 — 3000 ft. alt. 



Very common in the evergreen forests of the Konkan and North. 

 Kilnara ghats. Fl. Nov.- Jan. Fr. R. S. A tall evergreen tree with droop- 

 ing or horizontal branches. Bark } in., scaly, coming off in patches, 

 exposing a brown surface beneath ; inner bark with mnch blood-red juice. 

 Wood reddish, lustrous, light, smooth, soft. Pores moderately large, often 

 subdivided in small groups or lines of 2 — 3 together. Medullary rays 

 fine red, short, rather indistinct. Weighs 32 lbs. to the cub. ft. 



Oeder 75. LAURINE^. 



Aromatic trees or shrubs (except Cass^t/ia). Leaves alternate, 

 rarely opposite, gland-dotted, exstipulate. Flowers in axillary cymes, 

 panicles or racemes, usually 1-2-sexual ; bracts or deciduous, 

 often involucriform. Perianth regular, 6-4-cleft, tube sometimes 

 enlarged in fruit. Stamens normally 12, biseriate ; usually half or 

 more of the inner or outer stamens are wanting or reduced to 

 staminodia . Anthers er^ct, 2-4-celled ; cells opening by upcurved 

 deciduous lids or valves. Ovary sessile, 1-celled j style terrranal, 

 stigma simple, discoid or dilated ; ovule solitary, pendulous. Fruit a 

 1-seeded berry or drupe, peduncle often thickened, testa membran- 

 ous ; albumen ; cotyledons plano-convex, fleshy, radicle superior, 

 minute. 



Anthers 2-celled. 



Flowers bisexual. 



Fruit wholly inclosed in the perianth tuhe... I. Cryptocarta. 



Fruit naked, perianth wholly deciduous ... 2, Beilschmiedia, 



Anthers 4-celled. 



Flowers usually bisexual. 



Perianth-tube only persistent in fruit ... 3. Cinnamomum. 



Perianth-lohes persistent, reflexed in fruit... 4. Machiltts. 



Perianth-lobes wholly deciduous ... ... 5. Alseodaphw^e. 



Flowers dioecious. 



Leaves sub-verticellate. Bracts densely 

 imbricating. Fruit small, globose, on the 



thickened cup-like calyx-tube 6. Actinodaphne, 



Leaves alternate. Bracts whorl ed. Fruit a 

 drupe, situated on the slightly or xnuch 

 enlarged calyx-tube 7. Litsaea. 



1. CBYPTOCARYA, Brown. 



Evergreen trees. Leaves alternate, penninerved. Flowers her- 

 maphrodite, in axillary and terminal panicles. Perianth-segments 

 6, equal. Stamens 12, 6 outer perfect; anthers in trorse, 3 inner 

 B 987— 3G 



