* 
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yet I must deem them distinct species for the reason 
mentioned throughout the description, and in a note at 
the bottom.* 
Leaves opposite, short-petioled, ovate, or oyate-lanceo- 
late, entire, very smooth on both sides, three-nerved, with 
the lateral nerves vanishing towards the apex. Stipules 
none. Panicles from the exterior axils, and terminal, 
crowded with numerous,cross-armed ramifications, divid- 
ing into others, and finally ending in umbellets of small, 
whitish-yellow flowers. Calyx of six divisions, which are 
sublanceolate, nearly equal and very downy, particular- 
ly on the inside. Nectarial glands, the three that stand 
alternate with the three interior stamens are sagittate, 
and purple. Stamens, the three interior filaments have 
each a pair of large, flat, crenulate glands near the middle, 
asin L. Cinnamomum, &c. Anthers with four polenifer- 
ous pits. Stigma large, peltate. 
5. L, culitlaban. Willd. 2. 478. 
Arboreous, Branches appressed. Leaves apposite, ovate, 
lanceolate, triple-nerved, retrofracted. Panicles terminal, 
and axillary, Pedicells three-flowered. Nectarial scales 
Sagittate. 
Mal. Culit-lawan, Culi-lawan, or Cortex caryophl 
laides. Rumph. Amb. 2. t.14,  — 
About the year 1802, many plants of this tree were re- 
ceived into the Company’s Botanic garden at Calcutta 
from Amboyna, and in the dry seasons of 1809 10 the only 
plant that remained alive blossomed, It is about twelve 
* The remarkable, umbelliferous, extreme ramifications of the 
Panicles in this species, readily distinguish it from others hither- ° 
to described by me. I must, at the same time say, that I think 
every attempt to find clear, cites Senate ale 8 ee 
alone, will prove fruitless. 
