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fundibular, at length campanulate : lobes bluntish, recurved ; berry ellipsoidal, pointed, much 

 longer than the very short pedicel.— D. tinifolia, Meisn., o.— Habit of the preceding ; leaves 

 usually narrower ; peduncles several times dichotomous ; g calyx-tube 2"'-3"', ? 2"'-l J'", 

 berry 3"', its pedicel scarcely 1'" long, and nearly equalling the spreading involucel — Hab. 

 Antigua !, Wullschl., Dominica!, Imr., S. Vincent !, Guild. 



3. LAGETTA, Juss. 



Calyx campanulate, fleshy, 4-dentate. Anthers 8, subsessile. Hypogynous scales 0. 

 Ovary hirsute, tapering into a short terminal style: stigma truncate. Pericarp "drupa- 

 ceous." — A tree : liber farmed of interlaced fibres ; leaves alternate; flowers white, in lax, 

 ebracteate spikes. 



5. Ii. lintearia, Lam.— Si. t. 168./. 1-3 ; Hook. Journ. 2. t. 4 ; Bot. Mag. t. 4502. 

 — Daphne Lagetta, Sic. — 25'-30' high, glabrous ;. leaves broad-ovate, pointed, shortly pe- 

 tioled, evergreen, 3"-5"long; calyx 4"'-5"'long. — Hab. Jamaica !, Pd., Wits., in the south- 

 western districts of Vere, Clarendon, Manchester, and S. Elizabeth, on limestone rocks, often 

 in almost inaccessible places; [Haiti]. 



LXXV. LAUKINE^:. 



Flowers apetalous. Calyx-divisions 6 (-4), imbricative. Stamens definite, perigynous : 

 anthers dehiscent by valves. Ovary superior, simple: ovule 1, pendulous: style simple. 

 Seed exalbuminous. Embryo straight : radicle superior. — Leaves exstipulate, quite entire. 



All organs abound in essential oils. The Cinnamon (Cinnamomum) and China-Camphor 

 (Camphora) are the produce of Asiatic Laurinew, naturalized in America. The fruit of 

 the Avocado Pear (Persea gratissimd) is much eaten. The embryo of Laurinea is rich 

 in fixed oil. Many are timber-trees, e.g. Nectandra exaltata and sanguinea, Acrodiclidium 

 jamaicense, Oreodaphne coriacea. 



All the West Indian Laurinea belong to those genera in which the three interior anthers 

 are extrorse, and the six exterior introrse. 



1*. CINNAMOMUM, Bl. 



Calyx 6-partite : limb at length deciduous above the base of the segments. Fertile sta- 

 mens 9 : anthers 4- celled. Berry supported by a 6-fid or subtruncate, hardened cupule. — 

 Trees ; leaves S-triplinerved, nearly opposite ; flower-fascicles paniculate. 



1*. C. zeylanicum, Bl. Branches subtetragonal, glabrous ; leaves ovate or oblong : 

 3 nerves prominulous on the nearly veinless, glaucous under-side ; calyx sericeous, circum- 

 scissile at the middle; berry ovoid-oblong.— -Jacq. Amer. Pict. t. 117. — Laurus Cinna- 

 momum, L. L. Cassia, L. .- the oblong-leaved form. — Hab. Naturalized in Jamaica I, Al. 

 and the Caribbean Islands ! ; [introduced from the East Indies]. 



2. PH(EBE, Ns. 



Calyx 6-partite, wholly persistent. Fertile stamens 9 : anthers 4-celled. Berry sup- 

 ported by a 6-fid, hardened cupule. — Trees ; leaves alternate', archnerved ; flower-fascicles 

 paniculate. 



2. P. montana, Gr. Branchlets and panicles pubescent ; leaves ovate or ovate-lanceo- 

 late, puberulous (or glabrate) beneath : primary veins prominulous beneath, the lowest pair 

 opposite ; pedicels as long as the flower; sterile stamens 3, oblong ; berry ellipsoidal-oblong, 

 blunt, much longer than the spreading cupule. — Laurus, Sw. ! Cinnamomum, Ns. — Allied 

 to P. cinnamomifolia, Ns., and equally variable in the leaves. A large tree ; leaves bluntish 

 or bluntly acuminate, about 3" long : opposite vein-pair valid, 2"'-3"' distant from the base ; 

 calyx 1"' long ; anthers oblong, as long as the filament : interior 3 filaments biglandular at 

 the base, as long as the sterile, puberulous stamens ; berry &'" long, 3"' broad : cupule flat, 

 1"' high, tapering into the turbinate pedicel.— Hab. Jamaica !, Sw., Mac/., Al., March, in 

 mountain woods; [Cuba!]. 



