346 LAtJRINE^. 



three each, but the innermost A/^horl sometimes reduced 

 to staminodes: some or all of the filaments with a pair of 

 large yellow excrescences (glands) near the base : anthers 

 oblong, opening not by slits or pores but by lateral holes 

 closed by flaps ('trap-doors') opening upwards. Ovary 

 superior in the base of the perianth tube, with one 

 anatropous ovule suspended from the top, its micropyle 

 upwards. Fruit fleshy or dry, seated often in the cup-like 

 enlarged perianth. Embryo with plano-convex fleshy 

 cotyledons and minute radicle. 

 Species 900, mostly in the tropics. 



{Leaves in whorls of four or five, separated by 3 to 6 inches. 

 ACTINODAPHNE. 

 Leaves all scattered (alternate) b 



, (Flowers small clustered inside an involucre of bracts . c 

 (Flowers in open racemes or panicles . . cinnamomum. 



{Leaves three-nerved from the base, fruit J^ inch on a shallow 

 cup NEOLITS^A. 

 Leaves penninerved, fruit on a cup as deep as wide . 

 LITS.EA. 



CINNAMOMUM. f.b.l 128 vn. 



Cinnamon- 

 Trees and shrubs with aromatic bark and firm, oppo- 

 site or alternate, three-nerved leaves. Flowers in axillary 

 or subterminal panicles with short perianth tube and 

 six equal lobes, nine perfect stamens, those of the two 

 outer whorls without glands and with anthers opening 

 inwards, those of the inner whorl with a gland on each 

 side and extrorse anthers ; and inside these again a 

 fourth whorl of capitate or shortly sagittate staminodes. 

 Ovary sessile, narrowed upwards to the style. Stigma 

 discoid. Berry seated on the enlaiged perianth tube. 



Species about 54, in tropical and sub-tropical Asia, Japan, 

 tropical Australia. 



Cinnamon is now obtained from the bark of C. zeylanica Nees, a native 

 of Ceylon. Camphor is obtained from C. camphora, mainlj in Formosa. 



