304 ENNEANDRIA MONOGYNIA. LaurUS, 



above the middle, smooth, deep green on both sides ; 

 about four or five inches long, and from one to one and 

 a half broad ; when young coloured like those of the Cin- 

 namon tree. Panicles terminal, or opposite near the ex- 

 tremities of last year's shoots, or the base of the present ; 

 when so, the coloured leafy shoot from the centre, gives to 

 the whole the appearance of a large tufted panicle. Bractes 

 minute, caducous. Flowers small, of a pale yellowish 

 colour, on pretty long, slender, diverging pedicels. Calyx 

 none. Carol as in L. Cinnamomum. Nectarial glands 

 cordate, dark purple, on short, thick, yellow filaments. 

 Stamens exactly as in L. Cinnamomum. Germ ovate. 

 Style crooked, the length of the stamens. Stigma pretty 

 large, and glandular. T 



From tho sweet aromatic taste, and smell of the leaved 

 and bark of this pretty tree, I am inclined to think it is 

 this which yields the thin, small, quilled cinnamon like 

 Cassia, and Cassia-buds carried from China to Europe 

 and elsewhere. 



It is readily distinguished from L. cinnamomum by 

 its long narrow leaves in which the nerves vanish a little 

 above the middle, and by its cordate nectarial glands. 

 From Laurus Cassia it is readily distinguished by its 

 leaves ; there the nerves are triple, (that is they meet the 

 main or middle one considerably above the base of the 

 leaves) and continue distinct to near the apex, as in Ca- 

 rua Rheed. Mai. vol. 1. /. 57. 



SECT. 2. Leaves alternate. 



10. L. camphorifera. Willd. 2. 478. 



Leaves alternate, ovate-lanceolate, taper-pointed, three- 

 nerved. Panicles axillary, with alternate corymbiform 

 ramifications. Nectarial glands clavate, hairy. 



The trees from which my description, and drawing of 

 this famous plant are taken, grow at Hottentos Holland 

 near Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope. 



