136 CXXVII. LAURINXEX. (J. D. Hooker) [Cinnamomum. 
Nees in Otto Gartenzeit. 1833, 91, and Syst. Laurin. 92. Sassafras Par- 
thenoxylon, Nees Syst. Laurin. 491; Wight Ic. t. 1832. Parthenorylon 
porrectum and P. pseudo-sassafras, Blume Mus. Bot, Lugd. Bat. i. 32 h 
Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat.i.1.917. Persea pseudo-sassafras, Zolling. in Nat. 
en Geneesk. Arch. ii. 635. Laurus Parthenoxylon, Jack in Mal. Mise. 1. 
28; Wall. Cat. 2602. L. porrecta, Roxb. Hort. Calc. 30, and Fl. Ind. n. 
308, Phoebe latifolia, Champ. in Kew Journ. Bot. v. 197. 
MALAY PENINSULA ; from Tenasserm, Griffith, &c. (Kew Distrib. 4248, 4249), . 
to Penane, Wallich, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1514 and 1244).—DISTRIB. Sumatra, 
Java, China. . 
À large tree, branches stout, black when dry, with very smooth bark. Leaves ex- 
tremely variable, the largest 8 by 4 in., coriaceous, others thinner almost membranous 
- and glaucous beneath, base acute; nerves spreading, the lowest pair sometimes 
longest; petiole slender, 1-1} in. Panicles 1-3 in. long, with the young shoots en- 
closed in rounded coriaceous silky caducous scales, black when dry, many-fid. ; 
flowers 4, in. diam., pedicelled. Perianth-lobes broadly * oblong, obtuse, wholly -de- 
ciduous. Stamens very short, hairy. Ovary glabrous. Stigma discoid. , Fruiting , 
perianth 4-4 in. long, funnel-sbaped, suddenly. expanding into the fruit-bearing 
disk. Fruit succulent.—I find no specimen of C. malaccense, Meissn., said to 
described from specimens in Herb. Hook.; but I cannot doubt its being C. Par- 
thenoxylon. ` 
DOUBTUL AND EXCLUDED SPECIES. 
C. BURMANNI, Blume (Laurus.dulcis, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 30, and FI. Ind. ii. 303; 
Wall. Cat. 2581), isa Malayan Island species, not hitherto found in India. Meissner 
quotes Wight’s Icones, t. 138, copied from a drawing of Roxburgh under the name 
of dulce, for this, but it differs in the very strong nerves produced to the very tips of 
the leaves. 
C, CATHIA, Don Prodr. 67, is probably Phæbe paniculata. 
C. HEYNEANUM, Nees Syst. Laur. 77 (Laurus Heyneana, Wall. Cat. 2576), 18 
referred to var. y. subvenosum of C. iners, Reinw., by Meissner (in DC. Prodr. xv. 4- 
20). It is not very like any species described above; it is a very slender plant, the 
subopposite leaves are very long and narrow, 5-7 by i-1 in., with nerves obscure 
above; the fruiting peduncles are very long and slender; the pedicels } in., suddenly 
dilating into the almost rotate fruiting-perianth j in. diam. with rounded spreading 
lobes, and the fruit (apparently dry) is oblong 3 in. long.—It is from Heyne’s Her- 
barium without habitat. . 
LAURUS MALABATHRICA, Soland. mss, in Rogb. Fl. Ind, ii. 297. Roxburgh quotes 
Rheede’s Katou-Karua (Hort, Mal. v. t. 53) for this; and Hamilton (in Trans. 
Linn. Soc. xiii. 550) has a long article upon it and upon Rheede's Caraa (Hort. 
Mal. i. t. 57), which I have referred to C. macrocarpum. It appears to me to be 1m- 
possible to identify absolutely the plants which such figures are supposed to represent. 
LAURUS RIGIDA, Wall. Cat. 2570, from Silhet, with rigid elliptic very coriaceous 
leaves 3-5 in. long, is inderminable. 
C. TOMENTOSUM, Don Prodr. 67, is probably Phebe paniculata. 
LAURUS ?? SMILACIFOLIA, Wall. Cat, 2572, from Penang, is Grewia laurifolit 
with leaves 10 in. long. 
8. MACHILUS,* Nees. 
_Evergreen trees. Leaves alternate, penninerved, Flowers Q-sexual, in : 
axillary panicles. Perianth-tube short or 0; segments 6, subequal or outer 
rather smaller, all persistent (except M. edulis) and spreading or reflexed 12 
MEE ea 
* Further information on this genus will a at the end of the volume addi- 
tional materials being expected from Calcutta. : 
