Laurus. ENNEANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 303 
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smooth, of a deep, shining green on the upper surface, and 
glaucous underneath ; from six to ten inches long, and 
from two to three and a half broad. Panicles many, round 
a smooth scaly bud, which forms the apex of the branch- 
let, and also from the axils of their subquatern leaves, 
long-peduncled, subdecussate ; ramifications smooth, and 
tending to be four-cornered ; ultimate divisions three- 
flowered. Flowers very numerous, small, greyish-yel- 
low. Bractes caducous at an early period, clothed with 
greyish, sericeous pubescence. Calyx six-cleft, &c. as in 
the genus, somewhat sericeous. Nectarial filaments hairy, 
with large cordate-sagittate heads. Stamina as in the ge- 
nus, the inner three filaments have their glands clavate, 
and hairy. Germ superior, ovate, one-celled, containing 
a single ovula, attached to the top of the cell. Style 
shorter than the stamina. Stigma large, three-angled. 
Berries oval, succulent, the size of a field bean, smooth ; 
when ripe, black, one-celled, one-seeded, &c. as in the 
genus. * 
9. L. dulcis. R 
Leaves sub-opposite, three-nerved, lanceolate. Pa. 
nicles terminal and axillary ; nectarial glands with pur- 
ple cordate heads. 
This elegant, tall, slender, small tree, I have only 
found in an Armenian’s garden near Calcutta, who in- 
forms me that he got the plants from China about seven 
years ago; they are in flower about the beginning of the 
hot season, in March and April, the seed ripens a in 
the rains. 
- Trunk straight, and high in proportion to its thickness ; 
bark ash-coloured, and smooth. Branches elegantly scat- 
tered in all directions, with extremities often pendulous, 
forming a slender, oblong head. Leaves opposite, a or 
Rearly so, drooping, short-petioled, lanceolate, entire, ra- - 
ther obtuse, three-nerved, with the lateral ones vanis! ng 
