Laurus. ENNEANDRIA- MONOGYNIA. 301 
cutta under the Malay name. Koolit manees. | After 
seven years the young trees blossomed in February, and 
tipened their seeds in May. 
Trunk straight, in our young trees the bark is yet quite 
smooth, and of a greenish ash-colour.. Branches, and 
branchlets spreading. Leaves opposite, short-petioled, 
broad-lanceolar, distinctly triple-nerved to near the 
‘apex, permanent, of a firm texture, polished, and very 
‘smooth on both sides, but paler coloured underneath ; 
five or six inches long, and from one and a half to two 
broad ; when young, coloured; when bruised they emit a 
‘pleasant spicy odour, Petioles short, and. channelled. 
Panicles below the tender leaves of the young shoots, and 
also solitary in their axils, and shorter than them, com- 
posed of opposite, and alternate, three-flowered, diverging 
peduncles. Flowers small, pale yellow. . Segments of 
the calyx; (corol. Linn.) oval and hairy on the inside. 
Nectarial glands ; the inner three cordate-sagittate, on 
short pedicells. | Those attached to the inner three fila- 
ments, are also supported on short pedicells, which 
issue from their filaments a little above their base. This 
circumstance alone, if constant, distinguishes it from all 
the other species of this genus which I have yet met 
With, for in all the rest they are sessile. 
Germ conical, one-celled, with one seed, attached to 
the top of the cell. Stigma three-lobed. Berry obovate, the 
Size of a field-bean, polished, and when ripe, of a deep 
dark green bordering on grey, one-celled. Seed solitary, 
conform to the berry. Integuments two, both thin, and ofa 
dark, dull brown colour. Perisperm none. Embryo con- 
form to the seed, inverse, pale green. Plumula conic, 
three-lobed. . Radicle roundish, superior. 
7, ‘L. recurvata. R. 
‘aunties - Leaves subopposite, ovate, Jong-pointe, 
With the two lateral neryes evanescent towards the 
