128 CXXVIII. LAURINEX. (J. D. Hooker) [Cinnamomum.. 
7. CINNAMOMUMD!, Blume. 
Evergreen trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite or alternate, usually triple- 
nerved. Flowers small, 2-sexual or polygamous, in axillary and subterminal 
panicles ; females usually largest, vith often fewer parts. Perianth-tube 
short; segments 6, subequal. Perfect stamens 9 or fewer, filaments of 1st 
and 2nd series eglandular, with introrse 4-celled anthers; of the 3rd 2- 
glandular with extrorse 4-(rarely 2-)celled anthers; staminodes of the 4th 
Series cordate or sagittate. Fruit seated on the enlarged perianth, the 
segments of which are wholly or in part deciduous, or very rarely per- 
sistent and entire.—Species about 130?, tropical and subtropical Eastern 
Asia, Australia and the Pacific. 
The following is a very imperfect account of the British Indian Cinnamoma, to 
discriminate the species of which with any approach to completeness or accuracy re- 
quires a careful study of living specimens. I am so uncertain of the limits of the 
described species and their synonymy, that I have sparingly quoted from such authors 
as Miquel and Nees, who must often have worked upon very incomplete materials; 
and from referring to extra-Indian species, which may or may not be identical with 
Indian. Meissner did much towards reforming the genus, but more remains to be 
done, I have retained a good many species that I suspect will not stand. In the 
* Genera Plantarum” it is suggested that the genus may be reduced to ten species, 
bat I do not see my way to this. The fruiting perianth is incorrectly described in 
that work ; it is usually greatly enlarged, and the lobes sometimes persist. 
Sect. I. Malabathrum. Buds naked or with very small scales. 
Leaves opposite, triple-nerved, rarely alternate or penninerved ; axils of prin- 
cipal nerves without pits. 
* Leaves opposite or subopposite, triple-nerved. 
a. Species of the Himalaya and Northern India. 
1. C. Tamala, Fr. Nees in Nees & Eberm. Med. Pharm. Bot. ii. 496, 
and Plant. Officin.fasc. 4; leaves 9-10 in. ovate oblong or lanceolate usually 
acuminate 3-nerved, nerves not impressed above, panicles scarcely exceeding 
the leaves, perianth sparingly silky-pubescent, lobes deciduous in fruit, 
stamens and ovary villous, fruit small ellipsoid. Meissn. in DC. Prodr. XV. - 
1.17; Hayne, Arnz. Gew. xii. t.26; Blume Rumph. t. 14, f. 3, 4; Nees ih 
Wall. Pl. As. Rar. ii. 75, and Syst. Laurin. 56; Brand. For. Fl. 974; 
Gamble Man. Ind. Timb, 306. C. albiflorum, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. 
ii. 75, and iii. 32, and in Syst. Laurin. 58; Wight Ic.t.140; Blume Rumph. 
t. 14, f. 2?.. C. Cassia, Don Prodr. 67 (not of Linn). C. pauciflorum, var. 
PB. Tazia, Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 17. Persea Tamala, Spreng. Syst. 
ii. 268. Laurus Cassia, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 30; Wall. Cat. 9580. L. albi- 
flora, Wall. Cat. 2569. L. Tamala, Tazia, Someaurium & Sailyana, Ham. 
in Trans. Linn. Soe. xii. 555-558. ° 
TROPICAL and SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA; from near the Indus to Bhotan, alt. 
3-5000 ft., ascending to 7800 in Sikkim. Sr~HeT and Kuasa Mrs., alt. 38-4000 tt 
A moderate-sized tree. Leaves usually 4-5 in. long, very variable in breadtb, 
rarely alternate, shining above, rarely elliptical and obtuse, venules below very 9 
scure, more distinct in Sikkim specimens; a single specimen from the Deyra doon 
(Falconer) has broader (23 in.) leaves with 5 nerves. Flowers i—l in. long. Frw 
3 in. long; peduncle and calyx small, j in. long, the latter usually } in. diam. with 
truncate lobes.—-Khasian specimens from the Bor-panee River have leaves only 3-1! 
diam. Brandisis the authority for this species advancing westward to near the Indus; 
Garwhal is the most western locality k i , ieties have 
zo distinctive dinis ity known to me. Meissner s three varieties 
2. C. obtusifolium, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. ii. 73, and Syst 
