306 ENNEANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Laurus, 
the panicles, ‘immediately distinguish this species from 
all the others I have yet met with. “é 
This is far removed from the famous san ste tree a 
Sumatra, which is a Shorea. ‘ 
Laurus camphorifera, Keempf. Amoen. 770. t. 771. 
Leaves alternate, oblong, ventricose, acuminate, sub- 
triple-nerved, with glands in their axils. Racemes axilla- 
ry, nectarial glands conglobate. 
- This slow growing, handsome tree, is a native of the 
Malay Islands, and was introduced into the Botanic gar- 
den at Calcutta in 1802.; now 1810, the largest of many 
individuals is only eight or ten feet high, clothed with 
spreading branches down to the ground, They now be- 
gin to blossom in April. ee 
Trunk in our young trees short, variously bent, divid- 
ing into many, far expanding, ramous branches. Bark 
of the oldest woody parts rather scabrous; of the young 
shoots smooth, polished, glaucous-green. Leaves alter- — 
nate, no tendency toward being opposite, petioled, of an 
ovate, oblong-ventricose shape, entire, waved, tapering 
at the apex to a long sharp point, while young, of a soft, 
when old, of a firm, or rather hard texture, of a polished 
deep green above, glaucous underneath, somewhat triple- 
nerved, and in the axils of the nerves little glands, as men- 
tioned by the accurate Koempfer ; from two to four inches 
long. In this species they are particularly permanent, and 
what is uncommon in these countries, scaly conical buds 
areformed. The leaves, bark, and succulent parts smell 
strongly of camphor when bruised, Petioles slender, chan- 
nelled, scarcely an inch long. Racemes axillary, short, and 
as yet simple, and bearing but very few, subopposite, small i 
whitish, pedicelled flowers. Bractes minute, and cadu-_ ; 
cous. Calyx and Stamin _as in the genus. ‘Nectarial ’ 
glands three which (as in all the other species of Laurus — 
described by me,) are alternate with the inner three {fila- : 
