134 CXXVII. LAURINEE. (J.D. Hooker.) [Cinnamomum. 
i i i i ipti btusely 
te 3-4 in. thinly coriaceous elliptic ovate or lanceolate D) 
abominate 3-nerved finely reticulate on both surfaces, panicles axillary Maca 
slender shorter than the leaves few-fd., pedicels very long and slender, 
flowers very small. 
uta DECCAN ; Tinnevelly Hills, alt. 3-4500 ft., Beddome. ; 
A shrub or tree ; branches usually pale. Leaves 3-13 in. broad, pale green, a 
caudate, glaucous or not beneath, base acute, nerves not produced to the tip 2 peros 
slender, 1-j in. Panicles 6-8-fld.; pedicels 1-1 in. long; flowers 1 its, pete 
quite glabrous, as are the stamens and ovary.—Apparently a very distinct and p 
little species, but more specimens are wanted. 
** Leaves mostly alternate, triple-nerved. 
20. C. caudatum, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. ii. 76, and Syst. Law 
83; leaves alternate 3-4 in. thinly coriaceous orbicular or elliptic obtuso 1 
caudate-acuminate 3—5-nerved, flowers minute in very short axillary fowo a 
pubescent cymes, fruiting perianth turbinately funnel-shaped fleshy 6- P: s s 
fruit ellipsoid or globose fleshy. Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 23; 
For. Fl. ii. 289. Laurus caudata, Wall. Cat. 2603. 
CENTRAL and EASTERN HIMALAYA; Nepal, Wallich; Sikkim, alt. 1—4000 ft., 
J. D. H. & T. T., &. BURMA, in the Kakhyen Hills, Kurz.— DISTRIB. Yunan. 3 
A large glabrous shrub with slender spreading branches. Leaves rarely OPPO aers 
brown when dry, sometimes oblique, base acute, nervules transverse, very sCias ; 
petiole slender, J in. 'Cymes irregular, sometimes reduced to one or two axillary 
flowers ; flowers 4, in. diam.; pedicels slender. Fruiting perianth 3— in. diam., very 
fleshy. Fruit rarely obovoid, 
21. ©. Perrottetii, Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv.1.22; densely tales 
tomentose on branches and both surfaces of young leaves and panic ds 
leaves mostly alternate long-petioled oblong or ovate-oblong S-nerved GP 
obtuse or rounded, panicles shorter or longer than the leaves stout few- * 
flowers large subsessile. 
NirenrRi Hirrrs, Perrottet, Wight. 
A shrub? branches stout. Leaves thickly coriaceous, in age glabrous on bon 
faces and shining above, base acate; petiole $-1} in. Flowers 8-nate, i in. longs 
sessile or narrowed into a very short stout pedicel, densely tomentose. Fru 
not seen, 
*** Leaves subopposite, penninerved. 
22. €. citriodorum, Tkwaites Enum. 253; leaves 2-3 in. subopposite 
quite glabrous densely coriaceous ovate or oblong obtuse penninerved, nerve 
very faint, panicles longer than the leaves stout branched laxly many- 
subsilky, flowers stoutly pedicelled. Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 22 
CEYLON; Saffragam and near Galagama, alt. 1-2000 ft., Thwaites. ie 
A tree, 20-30 ft.; branches stout. Leaves very hard, pale brown and shine 
when dry, base rounded or acute, nerves spreading from the very obscure midri ite 
petiole $-} in. Flowers about } in. long, pedicels about as long.—I have seen no fru 
eissner describes the calyx-lobes as deciduous, the fruiting calyx as truncate an 
quite entire, 2 lines in diameter, and the fruit as ovoid, 
Sect. IL Camphora. Buds enclosed in large orbicular concave | 
silky caducous imbricating scales. Leaves alternate, penninerved ; axils 
principal nerves often pitted. Perianth-lobes wholly caducous in age. 
, The Camphor tree, C. camphora, F. Nees (Wall. Cat, 6847), belongs to this gi 
tion ; it is commonly cultivated in India. 
