. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. ..V Litscea] XCI. LAURACE^ \ 539 serim. Malay Penins. A large tree, young shoots minutely puberulous. L. glabrous, thinly coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, blade 6-8, pet. ^-1 in. S racemes slender, drooping, 5-7 in. long. -^ \,_ /?. Western species. t, 39. L. Wightiana, Hook, f.—Syn. Cylicodaphne Wightiana, Nees ; Wight Ic. t. 1833; Tetranthera Wightiana, Wall. ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 293. Vern. Kenju, Nilg.; Hamynadi, Fig. 180. LitsBea Wightian
. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. ..V Litscea] XCI. LAURACE^ \ 539 serim. Malay Penins. A large tree, young shoots minutely puberulous. L. glabrous, thinly coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, blade 6-8, pet. ^-1 in. S racemes slender, drooping, 5-7 in. long. -^ \,_ /?. Western species. t, 39. L. Wightiana, Hook, f.—Syn. Cylicodaphne Wightiana, Nees ; Wight Ic. t. 1833; Tetranthera Wightiana, Wall. ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 293. Vern. Kenju, Nilg.; Hamynadi, Fig. 180. LitsBea Wightiana. Hook. f. A large tree, branchlets, petioles, underside of 1. and inflorescence clothed with dense rusty-tomentum. L. coriaceous, elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, blade 3-9, pet. {-\ in., sec. n. 8-15 pair impressed above, prominent beneath. ^ heads \ in. diam. before opening, racemes 1-4 in. long, perianth tomentose, stamens 12, filaments hairy. Fr. f in. long, base enclosed in the cup-shaped,' more or less lobed, perianth. Western Ghats in evergreen forest, from North Kanara southwards. Fl. 40. L. Beddomei, Hook. f. Tinnevelli hills. L. silvery glaucous beneath, narrow lanceo- late, blade 2-3, pet. i in. 41. L. Stocksii, Hook. f. Western Ghats from Mahabaleshwar southwards. A moderate-sized tree, glabrous, except the brown velvety inflorescence, and very minute hairs occasionally on the underside of 1. L. coriaceous, glaucous beneath, elliptic-oblong or oblanceolate, blade 4-7, pet. |-1 in. S heads |-J in. diam. before opening, racemes stout 1-3 in. long, perianth grey silky. Nearly allied to 39.' 42. L. glabrata, Wall. (Te^rofw^/iem). Dindigal. Travancore. A small or middle-sized tree, youngest shoots minutely silky. L. glabrous, elongate-elliptic, blade 5-7, pet. I in. sec. n. faint. S racemes 3-5 in. long. ' 43. L. oleoides, Meissn. Nilgiris. Youngest shoots and racemes finely grey-silky, otherwise quite glabrous, branchlets stout. L. usually opposite or nea
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