LAURACE^E. 



also drier and more powdery when chewed. The smell moreover is 

 less agreeable, not so purely that of cloves, but with a strong odour of 

 nutmegs. 



682. C. xanthoneuron Blume Rumphia xxxiii. t. 13. f. 1. — 

 Papuan islands, and Moluccas. * 



A tree. Leaves oblong or oblong-lanceolate, bluntly acuminate, 

 acute at the base, shortly triple-nerved, netted and hoary underneath ; 

 nerves above their middle furnished with branching veins. — A kind of 

 Culilawan bark of great fragrance, clove-scented, and more pungent 

 than the true sort, when fresh, but losing its quality by time. It is so 

 extremely like Massoy bark, as to be confounded with it, although the 

 latter is not the produce of any Cinnamon, according to Blume. 



683. C. nitidum Hook. exot.Jl. 1. 176. Blume Rumphia xxxv. 

 t. 15. — Laurus malabathrica Roxb. hort. Cole. p. 30. Cinnamo- 

 mura eucalyptoides Nees in Wall.pl. as. ii. p. 73. — Continent 

 of India ; Ceylon ; Java. 



A shrub, or small tree. Leaves elliptical or elliptical-oblong, tapering 

 a little to each end, usually withering at the point, shortly triple-nerved, 

 nearly veinless, smooth ; the nerves running nearly through to the 

 point. Racemes, or rather a terminal compound cyme, branched, 

 panicled, subterminal, about as long as the leaves. Flowers silky. 

 Segments of the calyx deciduous in the middle. Blume. — This is the 

 plant which furnished the principal part of the " Folia Malabathri " of 

 the old pharmacologists, a mixture of the leaves of several species of 

 Cinnamon, and once used as an aromatic substitute for Cinnamon. 



684. C. javanicum Blume bijdr. p. 570. Rumphia p. 42. 1. 19. 

 — Laurus Malabathrum Horsfield in act. bat. viii. — Java and 

 Borneo. 



A tree with a trunk 20-30 feet high. Leaves unusually large, 

 elliptical-oblong, acuminate, obtuse at the base, 3- or shortly triple- 

 nerved, transversely netted ; the nerves confluent at the apex, on the 

 under side densely downy, as well as the petioles, branches, and spread- 

 ing terminal panicle. Blume. — Bark a deep cinnamon brown, more 

 bitter than Culilawan bark ; and the leaves when rubbed have a very 

 sharp aromatic odour. Blume says the bark deserves the serious 

 attention of medical men, on account of its powerful effects in spas- 

 modic colic, and the after-pains attending parturition. 



CAMPHORA. 



Flowers hermaphrodite, panicled, naked. Calyx 6-cleft, pa- 

 pery, with a deciduous limb. Fertile stamens 9, in 3 rows ; the 

 inner with 2, stalked compressed glands at the base; anthers 

 4-celled ; the outer turned inwards, the inner outwards. Three 

 sterile stamens shaped like the first, placed in a whorl alternat- 

 ing with the stamens of the second row ; 3 others stalked, with 

 an ovate glandular head. Fruit placed on the obconical base of 

 the calyx. — - Leaves triple-nerved, glandular in the axils of the 

 principal veins. Leaf buds scaly. 



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