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CX. LAURINEiE. 
[Per sea. 
1. P. Baileyana (After’ F. M. Bailey), F. v. 31. inedited 2nd. Suppl. Syn. 
Ql. FI. 51. Candle-wood of Frazer’s Island. A scrub tree attaining the height 
of about 60ft., glabrous except the inflorescence. Leaves opposite, or here and 
there alternate, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 2 or 3 inches long, on petioles of about 
il-inch, green on both sides, prominently triplinerved and finely reticulate, most 
conspicuous on the underside. Inflorescence terminal on the upper axils, 
forming short trichotomous panicles, or more or less racemose, bearing distant 
few-flowered clusters. Perianths silky-white, on short pedicels ; segments about 
2 lines long. 
Hab.: Frazer’s Island. — H. St. John Wood. 
Wood of a dark-grey colour, close-grained and slightly fragrant. — Bailey's Cat Ql. Woods, 
No. 319. 
6. LITSEA, Lam. 
(From the Chinese, Litse, the name of L. chinensis). 
(Tetranthera, Jacq.) 
Flowers dioecious, umbellate ; umbels 4 to 6 rarely more -flowered, sessile 
or pedicellate. Pedicels clustered, rarely solitary ; axillary, or on the leaf-scars 
(lateral), sometimes racemose or fascicled on a common peduncle; involucral 
bracts 4 to 6, rarely more ; concave, coriaceous or membranous. Perianth-tube 
ovoid campanulate or very short; lobes or segments 6 to 4, rarely more or less 
fewer, equal or unequal, or in a few wanting. Stamens 6, 9, 12, rarely more or 
f ewer-filaments of first and second series usually eglandular, of the third (and 
fourth if present), 2-glandular. Anthers all introrse, 4-celled. Fruit a drupe 
or succulent, seated on the often greatly enlarged perianth-tube ; evergreen, 
rarely deciduous. — Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, rarely opposite or 
subopposite, penniverved, rarely triplinerved, leaf-buds naked or scaly. 
The species chiefly tropical. Australian ones mostly endemic. 
Sect. I. Eulitsea. — Leaves persistent, alternate, penninerved. Perianth-segments very 
incomplete or none, tube not or slightly enlarged in fruit. Stamens often more than 12. 
Leaves hoary-pubescent or glabrous, usually large, the reticulations not 
prominent. Flowers rather large 1. L. chinensis. 
Sect. II. Neolitsea. — Leaves persistent, alternate, triplinerved. sometimes subverticillate. 
Umbels in sessile clusters. Perianth-scgmetits usually 4, deciduous, tube not or rarely enlarged 
in fruit. Stamens usually 6. Fruit small. 
Glabrous, with tbe inflorescence slightly pubescent. Fruiting perianth 
entire (tbe segments deciduous) 2. L. zeylanica. 
More or less ferruginous-villous, at least the young shoots and inflorescence. 
Fruiting perianth 4-toothed (the segments wholly or partially persistent) . 3. L. dealbata. 
Sect. III. Cylicodaphne. — Leaves jjersistent, alternate, rarely opposite, penninerved. 
Perianth-segments usually 6, tube much enlarged, disciform or cupular in fruit. 
Leaves large broad, very obtuse, glabrous, not reticnlate 4. L. Bindoniana. 
Leaves broad or narrow, obtuse, ferruginous underneath, not reticulate . . 5. L. ferrruginea. 
Leaves rather thin, glabrous, conspicuously reticulate on both sides . . . 0. L. reticulata. 
1. I*, chinensis (of China), Lam. Did. iii. 574. A small tree, the branches 
foliage and inflorescence more or less hoary-pubescent or the older leaves glabrous. 
Leaves petiolate, ovate obovate-elliptical or oblong, obtuse, shortly acuminate or 
rather acute, 4 to 8 inches long on the flowering branches, often larger on barren 
ones, green on both sides or glaucous underneath, the primary veins prominent 
on the underside. Peduncles 3 to 6 lines long, clustered or racemose, the common 
rhachis sometimes very short and usually shorter than the peduncles. Bracts of 
the involucres about 2 lines diameter, enclosing 5 or more sessile or very shortly 
pedicellate villous flowers. Perianth-segments very irregular, 1 to 6 or entirely 
abortive, and always very deciduous. Stamens in the Australian specimens 
usually 10 or 11, in some Asiatic ones more numerous ; filaments filiform, hairy, 
3 or 4 of the inner one with a pair of glands at the base. Fruit globular, 3 or 4 
