310 : ENNEANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Laurus, 
Branchlets crowded, or subverticillated, smooth, cloud- * 
_ed. Leaves alternate, petioled, lanceolar, tapering equally 
_at each end, acuminate, one-nerved, entire, shining ; from 
four to six inches long, and from one to one and a half 
broad, Panicles axillary, and round the base of the 
young shoots, from the-axils of the scales which formed 
the bud of the shoot, and also from the axils of the leaves 
of the shoots, long peduncled, small, smooth. Bractes, the 
inferior ones like the leaves, but small, those of the sub- 
divisions linear. Flowers numerous, small, pale yellow. 
Calyx six-parted. Segments oval, smooth. Stamina e : 
asin thegenus. Nectarial glands broad, cordate-sagit- 
tate, their pedicles hairy on the inside. Germ ovate, — j 
one-celled, containing one ovula attached to the top of 
the cell. Style cylindric. Stigma three-lobed. Berries 
oblong, succulent, smooth, black, one-celled, &e, as in 
the genus, il 
14. L. villosa. R. vid 
Arboreous. Leaves alternate, petioled, lanceolar, one 
nerved. Panicles axillary and round the base of the 
young downy shoots, villous. Berries spherical, © “ 
A large tree, a native of the forests. of oie 
where it blossoms in January. ce 
Trunk in fall grown trees in their native soil, from ‘our ae 
five feet in circumference and covered with scabrous, dark 
brown bark ; young tender shoots tomentose, but becom — 
ing smooth by the second year. Leaves alternate, petioled, 
lanceolar, entire, one-neryed, obtuse-pointed, when they 
first begin to expand soft and very downy, like the twigs 
that bear them, but soon becoming hard and somewhat — 
glossy ; ; from four to six inches long, and from one and 3 
half totwo broad. Panicles axillary, and round the bas@ 
of the young shoots, copious, the length of the leaves, very’ 
ramous, and very downy. Bractes small, downy.  Calye, 
stamina and germ as in the genus, permanent. Necla 
