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long-lanceolate, acuminate, bluntish or pointed at the top, glabrous or glabrate beneath : 

 veins strong, costate and reticulated beneath with a prominulous network ; flowers in short, 

 axillary racemes, strigillose-pubescent ; calyx 6-fid, globose ; anthers roundish, 6 exterior 

 sterile, devoid of valves ; cupule cupuliform, half as long as the ovoid-oblong berry : margin 

 double, exterior spreading, interior appressed. — Laurus, Sw. ! Aydendron microbotryum, 

 Ns. — A middle-sized tree; leaves 4"- 2" long, 10"'-8"' broad, usually shining above, pale be- 

 neath: petiole 3"'-4'" long; racemes often little exceeding the petiole ; calyx 1'" diam. ; 

 berry 5'"-6'" long. — Hab. Caribbean Islands !, Sw. ; [Guadeloupe !]. 



6. NECTANDRA, Eottb. 



Calyx 6-partite, rotate : limb deciduous. Fertile stamens 9 : authers 4-celled, broad, all 

 or exterior subsessile, or with a short filament. Berry supported by a truncate cupule. — 

 Leaves usually alternate, arch-nerved ; flower- fascicles paniculate. 



Sect. 1. Eunectandea. — Anthers roundish : cells arranged in an arch. 

 * Leaves shining, reticulated-veiny : network prominulous on both sides. 



9. N. sanguinea, Rottb. Branchlets purple, pubendous ; leaves chartaceous, lanceo- 

 late-oblong or elliptical-oblong, with a bluntish point, glabrous or glabrescent, shining above : 

 network of veins slightly prominulous on both sides ; panicle spreading, puberulous ; calyx 

 as long as the pedicels : segments oblong, blunt, pubescent ; anthers equal, sessile, obovate- 

 roundish : 3 interior sterile stameus clavate ; cupule short, cyathiform, appressed, 5 times 

 shorter than the ovoid or obovate-globose berry.— SI. t. 166. f. 1. Jacq. Coll. t. 5./. 2. — 

 Laurus Borbonia, Hb. Bks., Poit. ! L. martinicensis, Jacq. N. concinna, Ns. ? — A tree, 

 50' high ; leaves 6"-2" long, 24"— 1" broad ; calyx 3"'-4'" diam., white, fragrant ; interior 

 fertile stamens biglandular on the back; cupule 1|'" high, turbinate at the base, subdistinct 

 from the pedicel ; berry rounded above, often slightly mucronulate, 7"'-8'" long, 3"'-4'" 

 diam.— Hab. Bahamas !, Swains. ; Jamaica !, all coll., common in the lowlands ; Antigua !, 

 Wullschl., Dominica, Imr. ; Trinidad !, Sieb. T>: 99 ; [Cuba ! and Mexico ! to Brazil I and 

 Peru!]. 



10. N. exaltata, Or. Branchlets brown, subsericeous ; leaves chartaceous, lanceolate- 

 oblong or elliptical, bluntish, glabrous or bearded beneath in the inferior vein-axils : net- 

 work of veins prominulous on both sides ; panicle spreading, subsericeous ; calyx as long as 

 the pedicels : segments ovate-oblong, blunt, subsericeous-pubescent ; anthers equal, roundish : 

 3 interior sterile stamens clavate ; " cupule urceolate, half as long as the ovoid berry." — 

 Laurus, Sw. ! Oreodaphne, Ns. — Nearly allied to the preceding, and, without fruit, only 

 to be distinguished by its appressed, subsericeous down, the brown bark, and smaller flowers. 

 —A high tree ; leaves S"-4" long : the vein-axils are bearded in all (except Swartz's) speci- 

 mens ; calyx 2'" diam. — Hab. Jamaica !, Sw., Wullschl. , in mountain woods of the western 

 districts, Manchester ; Dominica !, Imr. 



11. KT. coriacea, Gr. Branchlets purple, glabrous; leaves leathery, elliptical-oblong, 

 with a bluntish point, glabrous, shining above : network of veins strongly prominulous on 

 both sides ; panicles axillary, racemiform, cernuous, exceeded by the leaves, puberulous ; 

 calyx as long as the pedicels : segments oblong, blunt, pubescent chiefly inside : 6 exterior 

 stamens subsessile, roundish, 3 interior exserted, spathulate, with a biglandular filament : 



3 interior sterile stamens minute, clavate ; berry — Laurus, Sw. ! (non Oreodaphne, Ns.). 



—A tree, 30' high ; leaves 6"-3" long, 2£"-l" broad, larger than in the usual forms of N. 

 sanguinea ; calyx 2'" diam., whitish, fragrant ; 3 interior fertile stameus twice as long as 

 the exterior, its inferior cells extrorse, the superior lateral. — Hab. Jamaica !, Sw., Bancr., 

 in the higher mountains. 



12. K. patens, Gr. Branchlets greyish-brown, glabrous; leaves membranaceous, at 

 length chartaceous, ovate-oblong or elliptical-oblong, often repaud, with a bluntish point, 

 glabrous, shining above : network of veins slightly prominulous on both sides ; panicles 

 axillary, lax, spreading, puberulous above, usually exceeded by the leaves ; calyx often 

 shorter than the cernuous pedicel : segments ovate, blunt, pubescent chiefly inside ; 6 ex- 

 terior anthers subsessile, roundish : 3 interior spathulate, with a biglandular filament : 

 sterile stamens transformed into glands ; cupule short, scutellate, supported by the length- 



