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ON THE CINNAMOMUMS OF NEW SOUTH WALES: 

 WITH A SPECIAL RESEARCH ON THE OIL OF 

 C. OLIVE HI, BAIL. 



(Plate XII. -XIII.) 



By R. T. Baker, F.L.S., Assistant Curator, Technological 



Museum, Sydney. 



Prior to this paper I can find no record of the occurrence in 

 this colony of any indigenous representative of the Genus Gin- 

 namomum ; but now, after the most critical examination of the 

 material that has come to hand, I am glad to announce that there 

 are at least two species occurring in New South Wales, viz., 

 C Oliveri, Bail., and G. virens, sp.nov. 



C. Oliveri, Bail. 



* "Black," "Brown," or "White Sassafras." 



Systematic Notes.— This species was first described by F. M. 

 Bailey, F.L.S., of Queensland, in his Bot. Bull. v. p. 24, thus :— 



"C. Oliveri, n.sp. (after Professor Daniel Oliver, F.R.S.) A 

 tall tree, glabrous, except the inflorescence, trunk erect, bark 

 smoothish, rather thin and fragrant. Leaves opposite or nearly 

 so, lanceolate, attaining about 8 inches in length, and then 

 scarcely over H inches broad in the widest part, colour pale, the 

 apex blunt or minutely emarginate, on petioles of about | inch, 

 which are flattened, the upper surface glossy, the under surface 

 of lighter colour, midrib flattish, the primary lateral nerves very 

 oblique, few, the basal pair faint, and very near the margin until 

 lost in the reticulation about half way up the leaf. Panicles 



* To distinguish it from Doryphora sassafras. 



