ss 3 ORD. XL. Holeracex. LAURUS CASSIA. 
LAURUS CASSIA. CASSIA. TREE. 
SYNONYMA. Laurus Cassia. Linn. Sp. Pl.p. 528. Wild. Sp. Pl. p. 477. 
- Burm, Ind. p. 91. Lam. Encyel. 8. p. 441. Illustr. t. 821. f.2. Bot. Mag. 
t. 1636. Laurus Canella, Mill. Dict. n. 12. Cinnamonum perpetuo florens, 
s tenuiore acuto. Burm. Zeyl. p. 63. t: 28. Cassia lignea. Blackw. Herb. 
391, Cinnamonium, seu Canella Malabarica, seu J avanensis. Bauh. 
oe 409. Carua. Hort. Mal. v. 1. p. 107. t. 59. Persea Cassia. Spreng. 
Syst. Veg. v. 2. p. 267. 
Class, Haivenhdri Ord. Monogynia. 
Nat. Ord. Holeracee, Linn. Lauri, Juss. 
Gen. Char. Calyx, O. Corolla, resembling a calyx, six parted. Nectary of 
three two-bristled glands, surrounding the germen. Interior filaments, 
glanduliferous. Drupe, one-seeded. 
' Spec. Char. Leaves, ovato-lanceolate, three-nerved, acute, the younger ones 
coloured ; peduncles trichotomously panicled and very spreading. 
THIS species of Laurus is a native of Malabar, Sumatra, Java, and Ceylon: 
it is a lofty éree, rising to the height of fifty feet, and gives out numerous 
large branches, which spread horizontally ; the trunk and branches are covered _ 
with a greyish brown bark; the leaves are ovate lanceolate or elliptical, 
entire, smooth, from four to six inches long, longitudinally nerved, of a 
bright green colour on the upper surface, paler beneath ; when young of a 
delicate red colour; the flowers are produced in axillary clusters, six together, 
on slender flower-stalks; the corolla is monopetalous, small, white, and 
divided into six stellated teeth; the fruit is an ovate, oblong, black berry, 
with a mucronate apex, it contains a somewhat bitter pulp, and when dried 
is insipid and without smell. 
