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Litscea kexaijthus, Juss. 
'Hie Ugaulbie. 
(Family LAURACEiE.) 
Botanical description.— Genus, Litscea. (See Part XLIV, p. 8(5.) 
Botanical description. —Species, L. hexanthus , Juss. in Ann. Mus. vi, 212 (1805). 
Poliowing is the original description :— 
5. Hexanthus umlellafus, Loureiro cochincliinensis, 242. Feuilles ovales oblongues acuminees, 
veinees et velues en dessous; petites ombelles axillaires; involucres a six feuilles contenant six fleurs. 
Calico partiel tubule par le bas, devise par le haut en six lobes au-dessous des quels sont inseres six filets 
steriles et six glandes presque sessilis alternas avec ces filets ; baie ovoide. On n’a pas vu les fleurs males. 
C’est le cay-ngat de la Cochinchine, ou il a ete vu par Loureiro dont on a extrait la des> ription. 
L'hexanthus n’est peut-etre que l’individu femelle du tomex japonica, avec lequel il a de l'affinite par le 
nombre des divisions de l’involucre et des fleurs qu’il renforme. S’il est une espece differente et seulement 
congonere du liste, on la distenqueroit par le nom de lit sea hexantha. 
Polio wing is the description of Tetrantliera ferruginea , lt.Br., Prod. 403, as 
given by Bentliam :— 
A tree of 30 feet or more, the branches and petioles ferruginous, pubescent, or villous. 
Leaves, from broadly ovate to elliptical-oblong, acuminate or rarely obtuse, rounded or cuneate at 
the base, 3 to 5 inches long, rather firm, glabrous, and shining above, ferruginous-pubescent 
underneath, with raised primary veins and transverse veinlets. 
Peduncles clustered in the axils or at the old nodes, 3 to 6 lines long in the males, shorter in the 
females. 
Bracts orbicular, enclosing 5 or 6 flowers on very short, thick pedicels. 
Perianth segments, 6, lanceolate ciliate and very deciduous in the females; broader, more obtuse, 
and sometimes fewer in the males. 
Perfect stamens, 2, twice as long as the perianth, the filaments hairy; staminodia in the females 
12, short. 
Fruit (not seen quite ripe) ovoid, resting in the enlarged cup-shaped truncate perianth-tube, which 
attains 3 to 4 lines diameter. (B.FI. v, 305.) 
(The ripe fruit is ovoid, nearly 2 cm. long by 5 cm. in diameter). 
Our New South Wales plant is the following variety:— 
Var. lanceolata, Meissn. 
Leaves .—Oblong or oblong lanceolate. 
Male Jlovjers .—As in the typical form ; females unknown. (Bentham.) 
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