Laurelia. | MONIMIACEZ:. 601 
Carpels numerous; styles long, silky. Fruiting-perianth much 
enlarged and elongated, often quite Lin. long, narrow-urceolate, 
splitting irregularly into 3-5 valves. Achenes 6--12, narrowed into 
long plumose styles.—Raoul, Choix, 42; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 
218; Kirk, Forest Fl. t. 71.  Atherosperma nove-zealandie, 
Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 240. 
Norra Isuanp: Abundant in swampy forests. SourH IstanD: Various 
localities in Marlborough, Nelson, and Westland, rare and local, Sea-level to 
2000 ft. Pukatea. October-November. 
The wood is pale-brown, often prettily clouded with darker brown. It is 
strong and tough, and does not readily split, so that it is occasionally used for 
boat-building, «nd more rarely for cabinetwork. The leaves aud young branches 
are aromatic when bruised. 
Orper LXIX. LAURINEA. 
Trees or shrubs, often aromatic. (Cassytha is a leafless parasitic 
climber.) Leaves alternate, rarely opposite, usually simple and 
entire, often gland-dotted; stipules wanting. Flowers regular, 
hermaphrodite or unisexual, generally small, usually in axillary 
cymes or panicles or clusters. Perianth inferior, herbaceous or 
coloured, deeply cut into 4-8 (usually 6) imbricate segments. 
Stamens usually twice the number of the perianth-segments, in- 
serted in 2-3 series on the perianth-tube, all fertile or some reduced 
to staminodia; filaments flattened, naked or provided with 2 glands 
at the base; anther-cells 2-4, opening by upturned valves. Ovary 
free, 1-celled; style simple, terminal; stigma capitate, entire or 
lobed; ovule solitary, pendulous, anatropous. Fruit a drupe or 
berry, rarely dry, free or enclosed in the perianth. Seed solitary, 
pendulous; albumen wanting; embryo with large plano-convex 
cotyledons, radicle minute, superior. 
An important order, having its headquarters in tropical America and Asia, 
less common in tropical Africa or in Australia and the Pacific islands, while few 
species penetrate into either the north or south temperate zones. Genera 35 ; 
species approaching 900. Tue order inciudes many useful plants, the chief 
of which are the camphor laurel, cinnamon, alligator pear, sassafras, &c. 
The timber of not a few species is highly valued on account of its toughness 
and fine and solid grain. The three New Zealand genera are all widely 
diffused in tropical regions. 
Trees. Flowers hermaphrodite, panicled. Three inner 
anthers extrorse .. ts a2 .. 1. BEILSCHMIEDIA. 
Trees. Flowers dicecious, umbellate; umbels involucrate. 
Anthers all introrse A af ae BS ee 4o gl Uneasy: o7 NG 
Leafless parasitic twining herbs of 0 .. 3. CASSYTHA. 
1. BEILSCHMIEDIA, Nees. 
Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate or opposite, penninerved. 
Flowers small, hermaphrodite, panicled or fascicled. Perianth-tube 
short; limb with 6 subequal segments. Perfect stamens 9 in 3 
