210 A FLORA OF MANILA 
1. CINNAMOMUM Blume 
Trees with opposite, coriaceous, 3-nerved leaves, and very aromatic bark 
and twigs. Flowers small, often unisexual, in axillary or subterminal 
panicles or racemes. Perianth-tube short, cup-shaped or campanulate, the 
segments 6, either deciduous or persistent and enlarging in fruit. Sta- 
mens 9, in 3 rows; anthers 4-celled, of the first two rows introrse, of the 
third row extrorse, a fourth row represented by 3 sagittate staminodes. 
Fruit small, ovoid, surrounded at the base by the enlarged, persistent. 
perianth. (From the Arabic name of cinnamon.) 
Species about 50, 4 to 5 in the Philippines, a single introduced one in 
our area. 
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* 1. C. ZEYLANICUM (L.) Bl. Canela (Sp.); Cinnamon. 
A small tree, glabrous except the finely silky-pubescent buds. Leaves 
coriaceous, shining, 8 to 15 cm long, oval or oval-lanceolate, base acute, 
apex acuminate, strongly 3- or 5-nerved. Panicles usually about as long 
as the leaves, mostly clustered in the upper axils. Flowers numerous, 
pale-yellow, small, pubescent outside with grayish hairs. Fruit about 1 
em long, oblong-ovoid, dry or slightly fleshy, surrounded by the enlarged 
perianth, the perianth-segments persistent. 
Occasionally cultivated in Manila, fl. May—Aug., and probably in other 
months; introduced from India or Ceylon. 
In addition to the above the-camphor tree [C. camphora (L.) Nees], a 
native of China and Formosa, is represented in our area by young speci- 
mens cultivated in Singalon. 
2. LITSEA Lamarck 
Trees with penninerved, alternate leaves and rather small, dioecious 
flowers crowded in small glomerules or umbels, each umbel subtended by 
4 concave imbricate bracts which look like sepals, forming an involucre, 
the glomerules or umbels umbellately or racemosely arranged, axillary. Per- 
ianth-tube long or short. Stamens in several rows, the innermost ones more 
or less imperfect; anthers all introrse, 4-celled. Fruit globose or ovoid, 
often fleshy, seated on the cup-shaped, enlarged perianth-tube. (From the 
Chinese name of one species.) 
Species more than 100, in the Indo-Malayan region, 25 or more in the 
Philippines, two in our area. 
Heads or umbels of flowers solitary or umbellate; leaves very densely and 
softly: pubescent.<.c5--24230.-ab 6 a. 23h ees 1. L. glutinosa 
Heads or umbels racemosely disposed; leaves glabrous or only slightly 
pBbescent,. ..-.---. a: anno mae nonce oe ee a eeepea ceeeiee 2. L. perrottetii 
1. Litsea glutinosa (Lour.) C. B. Rob. Puso-puso (Tag.). 
A tree 10 m high or less, the young parts usually more or less softly 
pubescent. Leaves elliptic to oblong-elliptic, usually softly pubescent, 9 
to 20 cm long. Umbels in the upper axils, solitary or umbellate, 1 to 1.5 
em in diameter, their peduncles about 1 cm long, containing many, small 
crowded, yellowish flowers. Fruit globbose, 8 mm in diameter or less. 
(Fl, Filip. pl. 360, Sebifera glutinosa.) 
Occasional, Malate, Pasay, Masambong etc., fl. Mar—May; widely dis- 
tributed in the Philippines at low altitudes and in the Indo-Malayan region 
generally. 
2. L. perrottetii (Blume) F.-Vill. Bacan (Vis., Tag.); Maguilic, Bati- 
culing (Tag.); Cubilan (Il.). ; 
