Laurus. ENNEANDRIA MONOGYNIA, * 27 
and without glands, the other three have a conglobate 
gland on each side, and alternate with the three short 
pedicelled, sagittate, nectarial bodies, inserted a little’ 
_ lower down, Anthers four-lobed, &c. as in the other spe- 
cies. | Germ ovate, one-celled, containing one ovula, at- 
tached to the top of the cell. Style length of the sta- 
mina. Stigma three-lobed. Berries oblong-oval, smooth, 
succulent, when ripe, dark blackish purple, the size of a 
field-bean, one-celled, one-seeded. Seed conform to the 
berry. Perisperm none. Embryo inverse. Cotyledons ob- 
long, fleshy. Plumula two-lobed. Radicle ovate, supe- 
rior. 
2. L. malabathrica. Soland. Mss. 
Leaves oblong, three-nerved, with the lateral nerves 
distinct to the very apex. Panicles terminal. 
Katou-karua. Rheed. Mal. 5. t. 53. 
A native of the Malabar mountains. 
3, L. cassia, Willd. 2. 477. 
Leaves subopposite, lanceolar, triple nerved. Panicles 
axillary with simple, three-flowered ramifications. Nec- 
tarial glands sagittate, Stigma triangular. 
Sans. Twuk-putra. 
Tej-pat the Hindoo name of the leaves. 
Carua, Rheed. Mal. 1. t. 57. 
Cinnamomum perpetuo florens of Burm. Zeyl. L 28, is 
too broad in the leaf, and too ovate for this, and seems to 
_ ‘Me to agree better with my next species L. multiflora, 
which is also a native of Ceylon. 
An elegant large tree, a native of the various moun- 
tains of the continent of India. The trees are now com- 
Mon in gardens about Calcutta, originally from the moun- 
malts of Tippera, Flowering time, in the gardens, the 
ing of the warm season ; the seed — in a 
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