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75. LAURINE^. 



[Alseodapkne. 



5. ALSEODAPHNE, Noes. 



Evergreen trees. Leaves alternate, i^nninerved, subverticillate 

 at tlie ends of the branchlets. Flowers in axillary, cymose, pani- 

 cles. Stamens as in Cimiamomum. Fruit ellipsoid, seated on the 

 truncate and of the swollen and fleshy peduncle. 



A. semicarpifolia, Nees in Wall. PI. As. Bar. 11. 72 ; Fl. Br. I. 5. 144 ; 

 Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. FL 222 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 297. Nelthare, mase, 

 mashe, K. ; Miri, phicdgus^ M. 



Western Peninsula from the Konkan southwards. 



On the Konkan and North Kdnara ghats, usually in evergreen forests, 

 from the coast inland. Fl. July, Aug., Sept. Fr. ripe ApL, May. 



A medium sized tree. Bark dark coloured, smooth. Wood grey, or 

 brownish, smooth, hard, compact. Pores small, sub divided. Medullary 

 rays fine, uniform, distinct ; somewhat sinuous where they are in contact 

 with the pores. Weighs 48 lbs. to the cub. ft. Used for building 

 purposes and boats. The panicles often exceed the leaves in the North 

 Kanara tree. Var. aiigustijolia^ Meissn. is common near Yellapur, 



6. ACTINODAPHNE, Nees. 



Evergreen trees. Leaves subverticillate, penni or triplenerved. 

 Flowers dioecious, in axillary, bracteate umbels or clusters j bracts 

 imbricatiug, caducous. Perianth-segments 6. Stamens 6-9, anthers 

 4-celled all introrse, outer 6 stamens eglandular, inner 3, i^-glaudular. 

 Staminodes of female 9. Perianth-tube enlarged in fruit. Fruit 

 globose, seated on the truncate, enlarged calyx, 



A. Hookeri, Meissn. in DC. Prod. XV. 1. 218; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 

 296 ;F1. Br. I. 5. U9. A. lanceolata,T>QXz, & Gih&. Bomb. Fl. 312.^4. 

 angustifoUa^ Nees, Wight Ic. 1841* Fisha, M.; Tudgensu, kaggodgi 

 mara, K. 



Evergreen forests of the Konkan and North Kanara. Dalzell says 

 ** very common at Mahabalesh var." Fl. Oct.-Nov. Fr. Feb.-Mch. A large 

 or medium-sized evergreen tree with smooth bark^ often with lenticular 

 markings ; inner bark light brown, fibres short, tissue homogeneous. The 

 verticels of white pubescent pendulous, young leaves are very conspicuous 

 in some of the evergreen forests of North Kdnara. 



7. LITS.aiA, Lamk. 



Usually evergreen trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, penninerved, 

 rarely triplenerved. Flowers dioecious, umbellate; umbels few or 

 many -flowered ; involucral bracts 4-6, concave. Perianth tubular, 

 4-6-lobed. Stamens, 6, 9, 12, outer 6 usually eglandular ; anthers 



