298 ENNEANDRIA MONOGYNIA. LauruS, 



Trunk straight. Bark smooth, oi" a greenish ash-colour. 

 Branches numerous, forming an elegant, tall, oblong 

 head. Xmi/essubopposite, drooping, short-petioled, lan- 

 ceolar, triple nerved, smooth and polished on both 

 sides ; about five inches long, and one and a half broad. 

 Panicles axillary, or terminal, on small axillary branch- 

 lets, as long as the leaves. Ramifications opposite, sim- 

 ple, each bearing three short-pedicelled, small, whitish 

 flowers. Bractes minute, caducous. Calyx as in the ge- 

 nus. Segments villous. Nectarial glands sagittate, and 

 yellow. Filaments nine, six in the exterior series, 

 without glands ; and three in the inner, with glands. Stig- 

 ma clavate, three-lobed. Berry oval, the size of a black 

 currant, smooth, succulent, when ripe black, one-celled. 

 Seed conform to the berry. Embryo inverse, w itbout pe- 

 risperm. 



This differs from all the other species hitherto describ- 

 ed by me, not only in the narrowness of the leaves, but 

 in the lateral nerves thereof issuing from the middle nerve 

 considerably above the base. The panicles also differ 

 greatly ; for here the ramifications are simple, and bear 

 three flowers ; there they are compound, and umbellifer- 

 ous. In both this, and multiflora (which is the species it 

 comes nearest to,) the nectarial glands are sagittate, but 

 there the stigma is peltate, here three-lobed. 



4. L. multiflora. R. 



Leaves opposite, three-nerved, ovate-lanceolar, the 

 nerves vanishing towards the top. Panicles terminal, 

 and axillary, with compound umbelliferous ramifications. 

 Nectarial glands sagittate. Stigma peltate. 



Cinnamomum perpetuo florens. Burm. zeyl p. 63. t, 

 28. appears to be this plant, and is the only figure known 

 to me that I can well refer to. 



This small elegant tree, as far as I know, is only 

 found in Ceylon, and approaches the true Cinnamon ; 



