442 DICOTYLEDONES 



CCCXCVIII. LAURUS 



Laurus Tourn. Inst. tab. 867. Lmck. III. tab. 32i. ic. i. Endlich. Gcn. n." 2061. 

 Meisn. Gen. 1. p. 327. ct 2. p. 2^9. Nees Gen. Fl. gei'm. fasc. 7. ic. 



Flores dioici. Calix 4-paititus: lobis aequalibus, deciduis. 31asc. 

 Stamina 8-20, in scries quaternarias disposita, omnia fertilia : inte- 

 riorum, raro omnium, fdamcnta glandula brcviter stipitata aut ses- 

 sili, medietatem versus, utrinque, praedita: antherae elliptico-oblongae, 

 aut oblongo-lanceolatae , introx'sac, biloculares: locidis valva oblonga, 

 a basi ad apicem revoliila, dehiscentibus. Ovarii rudimentum nidlum. 

 Foem. Stamina sterilia, staminodia, ovarium ambientia, 2-6, biglan- 

 dulosa, hastaeformia. Fructus bacca elliptica, monospcrma, sumrno 

 pedicello imposita. — Arbores aut frutices , foliorum elegantia , 

 perpetua viredine et aromate insignes. Folia oblonga lanceolatave , 

 petiolata, coriacea, penninervia venosoque-reticulata, margine carti- 

 laginea, facie nitida, subtus pallentia. Flores cymoso-iunbellati : um- 

 bellis axillaribiis, subsessilibus breviterve pedunculatis, simplicibus 

 compositisve, bracteis squamaeformibus , cito deciduis, involncratis 

 invohicellatisque. Pedicelli fructiferi incrassati apiceque in aream 

 ampliati. 



10G7. LAURUS NOBILIS 



L. ramis foliisque, ipsis junioribus, glabris; floribus masculis octo- 

 dodecandris; anthcris oblongo-ellipticisj florum foemineorum stami- 

 nodiis 2-4. 



Laurus nobilis Linn. Sp. p. 5 29. Schousb. Jagttag. Maiok p. ig3. Desf, F1. atl. 

 r. p. 334- Viv. Fl. lib. Spec. p. 22. C. Koch Beitr. Fl. oricnt. in Linn. journ. 

 (1849) ^^- P- ^'^- Clement. Sert. oricnt. p. 85. Sibth. etSsi. Fl. graec. Prod. 

 I. p. 2G8. et Fl. graec. 4- p- S^. 



Ir — SicTH. Fl. graec. 4- lab. 365. Chaum. Chamb. etPom. Fl. mcd. 4- tab. 21 5. 



Reich. Icon. Fi. germ. 12. tab. 673. ic. i345. Iconogr. taurin. 22. tab. 62. 

 Lam-us Trag. Hist. p. io63. ic. Matth. Yalgr. Comm. p. i3i.ic. Camer. Epit. 



p. 60. ic. J. Bauh. Ilist. I. (lib. 4) P- 4<^9- i^. a Chabr. Sciagr. p. 3i. ic i.a 



DoD. Peinpt. p. 849. ic. 



Arbor, in sylvis, inter S. Angelo et Flumini major, 20-3o pedum altitutlinem 



