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slipitate cordate or sagittate staminodes. Ovary sessile, free from the 

 perianth, narrowed into the style ; stigma discoid or obscurely 3-lobed. 

 Fruit a berry, resting on the spreading more or le-<s enlarged perianth, 

 the segments of which are wholly or partly deciduous, less often per- 

 sistent. Seed with thin testa. — Disthib. Tropical and Subtropical 

 Eastern Asia, Australia and the Pacific Islands ; species perhaps 130. 



Fruiting perianth | in. in diam. ; fruit ^-f in. long 1. C. zeylanicum. 



Fruiting perianth f in. in diam. ; fruit 1 in. long 2. C. macrocarpuin. 



1. Cinnamomum zeylanicum, Blume, Bijdr. (1825) p. 5fi8. 

 A moderate-sized evergreen tree ; bark rather thick, smooth, pale ; 

 twigs often compressed ; young parts glabrous except the buds which are 

 finely silky. Leaves opposito or subopposite (rarely alternate), hard 

 and coriaceous, 3-8 by 1^-3 in., ovate or ovate-lanceolate, subacute or 

 shortly acuminate, glabrous and shining above, slightly paler beneath, 

 base acute or rounded ; main nerves 3-5 from the base or nearly so, 

 strong, with' fine reticulate venation between ; petioles ^-1 in. long, 

 flattened above. Flowers numerous, in silky-pubescent lax panicles 

 usually longer than the leaves ; peduncles long, often clustered, glabrous 

 or pubescent ; pedicels long. Perianth -1— | in. long ; tube -^^j in. long ; 

 segments pubescent on both sides, oblong or somewhat obovate, usually 

 obtuse. Fruit ^-| in. long, oblong or ovoid-oblong, minutely apiculate, 

 dry or slightly fleshy, dark purple, surrounded by the enlarged campanu- 

 late perianth whicli is ^ in. in diam. Fl. B. I. v. 5, p. 131 ; Wight, Icon. 

 tt. 123, 134 ; Bedd. For. Man. in Flor. Sylvat. p. clxxxiv ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. 

 V. 3, p. 440 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 283 ; Wocdr. in Journ. Bomb. 

 Nat. V. 12 (1899) p. 367 ; Prain, Beng. PI. p. 898 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. 

 Prod. V. 2, p. 324. Cinnamomum zeylanicum var. Wighiii, Bedd. Flor. 

 Sylvat. t. 262. C. aromaticwn, Grab. Cat. p. 173 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Suppl. 

 p. 74. C. iiiers, Grab. Cat. p. 173. — Flowers : Nov.-Mar. A^ern. 

 Ddlchini. 



Balzell without locality in Herb. Kew. ! Konkan : Goa territory, Cooke ! ; Ainboli 

 GAvkt, Kanitkar \ Deccan : ravines about Khandaja, not common, Graham. Kanau\: 

 Stocks ! ; common in all evergreen forests of N. Kanara, very abundant in the Kumpta 

 and Siddapiirtalukas, Talhot ; Kala naddi, Bitchie, 967 ! ; Supa, Talhot,4:0 ! — Distrib. 

 India (Birraa, W. Peninsula) ; Ceylon ; cultivated in the Malay Islands and elsewhere 

 iu the tropics. 



The bai-k which furnishes the Cinnamon of commerce is largely exported from 

 Kanara. The tree is cultivated in Ceylon. 



2. Cinnamomum macrocarpum, ffoolc. f. Fl. B. I. v. 5 (1886) 

 p. 133. A moderate-sized evergreen tree ; branches slender. Leaves 

 4|-7 by 1|-2| in., thinly coriaceous, elliptic-lanceolate or oblong- 

 lanceolate, 3-5-nerved, the lateral nerves sometimes starting | iu. 

 above the base ; petioles |-1 in. long. Flowers in panicles shorter 

 than the leaves. Fruiting perianth apparently fleshy, broadly iufundibuli- 

 form, I in. in diam., shortly 6-toothed. Fruit 1 by | in., globosely 

 oblong. Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 283 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. 

 Nat. V. 12 (1899) p. 367. Cinnamomum iners, Wight, Icon. t. 130. 



Kanaka : evergreen forests of N. Kanara, Talbot ; Supa (N. Kanara), Woodrow. — 

 Distrib. India (W. Peninsula). 



Talbot (Trees, Bomb. 1. c.) is doubtful as to whetlier this should not be considered a 

 variety of C. zeylanicum with large fruit. The difference in the perianth would liow- 

 •ver seem to be a constant character, but the material in Herb. Kew. is very meagra. 



