3. Machilus.] 115. LAURACEJS. 



obtuse or broadly cuneate, apex slightly tapering or shortly suddenly 

 acuminate, beautifully white-glaucous beneath with 6-12 sec. n. often 

 forked and always becoming fainter and looped with one another 

 towards the margin, tertiaries reticulate and enclosing still finer 

 minute reticulations. Petiole rather slender -7-1 -3" long. Inflores- 

 cence tomentose 3-7-5" in flower, up to 1" in fruit. Tepals oblong or 

 elliptic-oblong •1--13" reflexed in fruit. Berries globose -6" diam. 



Rare. Everg-veen forests near ravines, ascending to Neterhat 3000 ft., Palamau ! 

 Bonai (Cooper)] Fl. (in Southern India and Neilgherries, our specimens not in 

 flower) Jan. -April. Fr. Jan. Evergreen. 



Trunk smooth, about 3 ft. girth in our province. Buds short ovoid, glabrous. 

 L. aromatic, microscopically dotted. 



4. PHOEBE, Nees. 



Characters of Machilus but perianth-tube more developed and 

 tepals erect hardened and clasping the base of the fruit. 



I. P. lanceolata, Nees. 



A small tree. with lanceolate caudate leaves 4-9" with a very tapering 

 base, glabrous or thinly pubescent beneath. Panicles axillary at 

 base of the new shoots racemiform corymbose 2-5" with very long 

 slender peduncles. Perianth -15" long, hardening and clasping the 

 base of the narrowly ellipsoid black fruit. 



Mayurbhnaj, above 2000 ft. ! Bettiah and Ramnagar Forests ! Fl. April -May. 

 Fr. May- June. 



Bark grey, nearly smooth. Blaze thick brownish or earneous. Twigs brown 

 with persistent leaf scars and lenticels, glabrous except when very young. L. 

 with 6-11 fine distinct sec. n. but rather irregular and some intermediate nearlj' as 

 strong, tertiaries close reticulate and sub-scalariform, the mid-rib and sec. n. 

 brownish. Peti. -i-S". 



5. CINNAMOMUM, Blujne. 



Evergreen trees or shrubs with opp. or alt. usually 3-basal-nerved 

 leaves. Fls. in axillary and terminal panicles , often polygamous 

 with females larger. Hypanthium short. Tepals 6 subequal. 

 Stamens 9, or sometimes fewer, in three whorls, 4th whorl of 3 stami- 

 nodes. Fruit seated on the enlarged hypanthium. 



Cultivated species only in B. & 0. 



1. L. opp, or subopposite with 3-nerved base. Buds scarcely 



perulate : — 



L, reticulate beneath. Panicles exceeding the leaves . . 1. multiflorum. 



L. not reticulate. Panicles scarcely larger than the leaves . 2. tamida. 



2. L. alternate, penninerved, or 3-nerved considerably above the 



base. Buds very perulate . .3. camphora. 



1. C. multiflorum, Wight. Cinnamon Tree. 



A small or medium sized tree with ovate, ovate-ell. or ovate-lane, 

 glabrous leaves 2-4" and panicles 3-7" long of small flowers -15" long. 

 Easily recognised by the marked cinnamon flavour of the bark on 

 the twigs. 



Occasionally cultivated in gai-dens towards the Ganges, e.g. Pirpainti ! Fl. 

 Jan. -Feb. Native of Ceylon, 



L. obtuse or acute scarcely acuminate, old glabrous. Panicles much branched. 

 Pedicels, tepals both sides, filaments and stalks of glands and staminodes shortly 

 silky. Ovary glabrous. 



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