132 CXXVIII. LAURINEX. (J. D. Hooker) [Cinnamomum. 
t. 123, 129, 134; Wall. Cat. 2573; Beddome Fer. Fil. t. 262, and For. Man. 
184, and Flor. Sylv. t. 242; Bentl. $ Trim. Med. Pl. ii. t. 224; Thwaites 
Enum. 252 (excl. some vars.) ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 237; Miquel Fi. Ind. Bat. 
i. 898. C. aromaticum, Grah. Cat. Bomb. Pl.173; Dalz. d Gibs. Bomb. 
Fl. Suppl.71. ? C.iners, Wight Ic. t.122 bis. Laurus cinnamomum, Roxb. 
Fl. Ind. ii. 295. L. nitida, Wall. Cat. 2582? B. L. Cassia, Burm. Fl. Ind. 
91; Ham. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. 555; Spreng. Syst. ii. 567; Bot. Mag. 
t. 1636, copied in Wight Ic. t. 128. 
TENASSERIM, Burma and the MALAY PENINSULA; DECCAN PENINSULA and 
CEYLON, indigenous or cultivated.—Distris. Cultivated in the Malay Islands and 
elsewhere in the tropics, . . . 
I am unable to unravel the synonymy of the varieties attributed to this species by 
Nees and others. Thwaites suspects that it passes into C. nitidum and iners. This 
is possible if the fruiting calyces prove the same, though not into C. obtusifolium, 
which, besides its characters of leaf and panicle, appears to have a different range. 
have also kept C. multiflorum and ovalifolium (which Thwaites unites with zeylanicum), 
as distinct, though with hesitation. Kurz (For. Fl.) describes the fruiting perianth d 
zeylanicum as truncately 5-cleft, but I find the lobes in fruit all perfect and round 
in what I take to be typical specimens.  Meissner's var. feniculaceum (Ceylon, 
Thwaites 2281) seems to have no recognizable character, and Thwaites does not ert 
tinguish it. Vars. inodorum and Cassia of Nees I suppose to be the same thing, an 
are the faintly aromatic wild forms, passing probably into nitidum, the fruiting 
perianth of which is unknown, Beddome’s figure of zeylanicum is of a very coarse 
leaved var. from the Nilghiris, which he calls Var. Wightii ; his fig. 11 on the same 
plate representing what he supposes to be fruit of iners is perhaps referable to 
C. macrocarpum. 
13. C. multiflorum, Wight Ic. t. 126 and 131; branches slender 
branchlets and young leaves beneath clothed with fine white pubescence 
leaves opposite 2-4 in. thinly coriaceous usually ovate-lanceolate acuminate 
3-nerved, panicles slender much branched many-fld., flowers small subcory™ 
bose, pedicels slender, perianth } in. long. Meissn.in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 15. 
C. zeylanicum, var. B., Thwaites Enum. 959. C. villosum & dubium, Wight 
Jc. t. 127, 135. C. perpetuo-florens, Burm. Fl. Zeyl. 63; Wight Te. t. 141 
C.iners, var. 6.? dubium, Meissn. l. c. 20. Laurus dubia, Wall. Cat. 2571. 
CEYLON; common in the Central Province, ascending to 3000 ft. 
This, which Thwaites finds it difficult to distinguish from zeylanicum, is a more 
slender plant, with much smaller and less coriaceous leaves, and very much smaller 
flowers,  Wallich's Z. dubia received from Wight as L. Cassia seems the same thing, 
and probably came from Ceylon. 
14. C. sulphuratum, Nees ia Wall. Pl. As. Rar. ii. 74, and. S$ 
Laur. 55; branches petioles young leaves beneath or on both surfaces an 
panicles densely fulvous-tomentose, leaves thickly coriaceous elliptic oblong ` 
or ovate-lanceolate obtuse or acute 3—5-nerved, panieles shorter than the 
leaves long-peduncled, flowers few corymbose, perianth 1 in. long lobes ro 
sistent, fruit 4-3 in. ellipsoid fleshy. Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 11 
(erel. vars. and syn. villosum). Laurus malabathrum, Wall. Cat. 9583 D- 
NiranrRi Hirrs, Heyne, &c. 
. Leaves very variable in breadth, base acute, nerves very strong aud often pubes 
cent on the upper surface, old perfectly glabrous and very rigidly coriaceous J 
mountain ? specimens often short broad and convex with recurved margins; pe 
usually short, 4 in., and stout. Panicles stout, 2-4 in. Fruiting perianth $ in. dias 
lobes rounded. Fruit minutel 
e y apiculate.— Very closely allied to C. Tuavoyanum, : 
not conspecilic, : 
15. C. Wightii, Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 11; branches and 
