LAURACEAE 921 
Se epals persistent under the fruit. 9. TAMALA. 
Staminodia small, subulate, or wanting. 4. NECTANDRA. 
II. LiTSEAE 
Sepals persistent on the cup-like hypanthium. 5. SASSAFRAS, 
Sepals deciduous from the cylindric hypanthium. 6. GLABRARIA. 
III. ACRODICLIDIEAE 
Large trees with whitish flowers: leaf-blades coriaceous. T. MISANTECA. 
IV. LAUREAE 
Shrubs with yellow flowers: leaf-blades NOTE 8. BENZOIN. 
1. C RA [Gronov.] L. Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate or 
Oo v.] 
opposite, persistent: blades entire. Flowers in panicled axillary cymes, mainly 
white or greenish. Style slender. Stigma 
minute. Drupe equilateral, as broad as long, 
or nearly so.—Few species, natives of uid 
ern Asia. 
. Camphora (L.) Karst. Small tree or 
va ig 4-12 
short-acuminate, pale beneath, 
long. petioled: b eua nae die d: 
sepals 1-1.5 m cid uc eed igs 
dia 
j MET | m - 
mocks, pen. Fla. to Tex. Nat. of E Asia 
and cult.—Spr ue wood yields the cam- 
phor of commere 
2. PERSEA [Plum.] Gaertn. Trees. Leaves alternate, persistent: blades 
entire. Flowers in terminal panicled cymes, greenish. Sepals 6, nearly equal, 
united at the base. Style subulate: stigma - 
minute. Drupe inequilateral.—One species, 
in many cult. forms. 
1. P. Persea (L.) el due Large tree: 
va pus elliptic or oval or nearly so, 8—15 
Ong, s 
hort-petioled (sentes small 
id long and slender peti à 
Persea mexicana) : er sepal 4—5 long, 
somewhat  surpassing outer ans 
slightly elongate, often pyrifor , ye " 
long, the flesh "Ralhmocis Gnd p | pos 
—Ha ibd 
; d the Keys.—Gro 
varieties for its e fruit. Nat. of E 
Am. and eult.—(W. I., Mez., C. A., 8. A))— 
3. TAMALA Raf. Shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, eed blades 
entire. Flowers in axillary peduncled cymes, greenish. Sepals 6, dissimilar. 
Style long-columnar: stigma capitate. Drupe equilateral. Yes species, Amer- 
ican.—Spr. or all year S 
Peduncles, pedicels and petioles glabrous or appressed-pubescent: fruit over 1 cm. 
ick. 
Leaf-blades glabrous or nearly so, except sometimes the nerves beneath. 
