298 | ENNEANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Laurus. 
Trunk straight. Bark smooth, of a greenish ash-colour, 
Branches numerous, forming an elegant, tall, oblong 
head. Leaves subopposite, drooping, short-petioled, lan- 
ceolar, triple nerved, smooth and polished on both 
sides ; about five inches long, and one and a half broad. 
Panicles axillary, or terminal, on small axillary branch- — 
_ lets, as long as the leaves. Ramifications opposite, sim- 
ple, each bearing three short-pedicelled, small, whitish 
flowers. Bractes minute, caducous. Calyx as in the ge- 
nus. Segments villous. Nectarial glands sagittate, and 
yellow. Filaments nine, six in the exterior series, 
without glands ; and three in the inner, with glands. Stig- 
ma clavate, three-lobed. Berry oval, the size of a black 
currant, smooth, succulent, when ripe black, one-celled. 
Seed conform to the berry. Embryo inverse, without pe 
risperm. ; 
This differs from all the other species hitherto deseule 
ed by me, not only in the narrowness of the leaves, but 
in the lateral nerves thereof issuing from the middle nerve 
considerably above the base, The panicles also differ 
greatly; for here the ramifications are simple, and beat 
three flowers ; there they are compound, and umbellifer- 
ous. In both this, and multiflora (which is the species it 
comes nearest to,) the nectarial glands are sagittate, but 
there the stigma is peltate, here three-lobed. : 
A. L. multiflora. R. 
Leaves opposite, three-nerved, ovate-lanceolar, the 
nerves vanishing towards the top. Panicles terminal, 
‘and axillary, with compound umbelliferous ramifications 
Nectarial glands sagittate. Stigma peltate. 
 Cinnamomum perpetuo florens. Burm. zeyl. p. 63. t “4 
28, appears to be this plant, and is the only figure ait @ , 
; to me that I can well refer to. | 
This small elegant tree, as far as I know, is only ss 
found in Ceylon, and approaches the true Cinnamon 
