Linder a.'] 
CXIX. LAURINE^E. 
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15 . LINDERA, Thunb. 
Shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate or sub-opposite, 3- to 5-ribbed 
or penni-nerved, chartaceous or coriaceous. Flowers unisexual 
in axillary peduncled or sessile umbellules. Bracts 2 to 4. Flowers 
1 to 6 or more; peduncles long or short; lobes 6. Stamens g or 12 ; 
anthers all introrse 2- (rarely 4-)celled filaments slender. Ovary 
in female ovoid; style thick; stigma peltate. Fruit globose or 
ovoid seated on the slightly enlarged perianth-tube with persistent 
lobes; pedicel slightly thickened. Species about 60, China, Japan, 
India, N. America to Malaya. 
Leaves penni-nerved; flowers in umbellules more 
than 9. 
Trees. 
Leaves ovate acuminate sub-coriaceous . 
Leaves ovate acuminate thin glaucous beneath, 
lobes oblong ...••• 
Leaves obovate to oblanceolate, often round- 
tipped . . . ■ 
Leaves coriaceous lanceolate acuminate; nerves 
12 pairs .... 
Leaves chartaceous lanceolate acuminate; 
nerves 7 to 8 pairs .... 
Leaves membranous, lanceolate, glaucescent 
and pu berulous beneath; nerves S to 12 pairs 
Mountain shrubs. 
Leaves stiff coriaceous. 
Leaves lanceolate blunt,base cuneate ; flowers 5 
Leaves lanceolate acuminate, base round, 
flowers 9 ..... 
Leaves more or less distinctly 3-nerved; flowers 
1 to 4. 
Leaves chartaceous ovate, cuspidate; flowers 1. 
Small tree ...•■• 
Leaves distinctly tri-nerved, chartaceous. 
Leaves caudate acuminate; flower 1; lobes 
blunt. Bush . . • • 
Leaves acuminate; flowers 3; lobes acuminate. 
Treelet . . . 
Leaves ovate acuminate, 2 in. across; flowers 
3 to 4. Tree 
Leaves stiff coriaceous. Bushes. 
Leaves ovate to lanceolate acuminate, base 
narrowed. 
Umbellules sessile, 3-flowered 
Leaves oblong-ovate, blunt or round, base shortly 
narrowed. 
Umbellules 2-flowered pedunculate 
(1) L. malaccensis 
(2) L. selangorensis 
{3) L. Wrayi 
(4) L. oxyphylla 
(5) L. polyantha 
( 6 ) L. pipericarpa 
(7) L. montana 
(8) L. stricta 
(9) L. caudifolia 
(10) L. bibracteata 
(n) L. csesia 
{12) L. cinnamomea 
(13) L. rufa 
(14) L. concinna 
(1) L. malaccensis Hook. fil. F.B.I. v. 183; Gamble , Journ. 
As. Soc. Beng. lx. 194. 
A slender tree about 40 ft. tall with spreading branches. 
Leaves sub-coriaceous, shining dark green, glabrous, ovate to 
