210 84. LAURACEAE 



Fruit completely i-celled. Pericarp easily separable from the receptacle, 

 but adnate to the seed. — Species 10. Madagascar, South and East 

 Africa Cryptocarya R. Br. 



6. Perianth 4-parted. Fertile stamens 4. Shrubs. Leaves linear-lanceolate. 



— Species 2. Madagascar Potameia Thouars 



Perianth 6-parted or 6-cleft. Fertile stamens 6 — 9 7 



7. Fertile stamens 6, each with 2 glands. Flowers in racemes. — Species i. 



Madagascar Berniera Baill. 



Fertile stamens 9, rarely 6, all or the outer ones without glands. Flowers 

 in panicles 8 



8. Stamirodes within the fertile stamens none. Filaments oblong or obovatci 



the inner ones each with 2 oblong, wholly adnate glands. — Species 3. 

 Equatorial West Africa (Cameroons). They yield timber. 



Tylostemon Engl. 



Staminodes within the fertile stamens present. Inner fertile stamens 



with 2 roundish glands at their base 9 



9. Perianth persistent. Leaves herbaceous. — Species i. Canary Islands 



and Madeira. Yields timber. ... ... ApoUonias Nees 



Perianth deciduous. Leaves leathery. ■ — Species 20. Tropics. Some 

 species yield timber or edible seeds. {Afrodaphne Stapl, Hiifelandia 

 Nees, Nesodaphne Hook., under Tylostemon Engl.) Beilschmiedia Nees 

 10. (i.) Anthers 9 — 14 (usually 12), all turned inwards. Flowers dioecious, in 

 umbels. — Species 2. Naturalized in the Mascarenes and Seychelles. 

 They 5deld timber, a fat, and medicaments. {Tetranthera Ja-qu.) [Tribe 



LITSEEAE.] Litsea Lam. 



Anthers 9, the outer turned inwards, the inner outwards. Flowers her- 

 maphrodite or polygamous, usually in panicles. [Tribe CINNA- 



MOMEAE.] II 



ii. Staminodes very small and awl-shaped or wanting. Receptacle accrescent- 



Flowers usually polygamous 12 



Staminodes well developed, thickened at the apex. Receptacle scarcely 

 or not accrescent. Flowers usually hermaphrodite 13 



12. Anther-valves side by side. Ovary inferior. — Species i. West Africa 



(Cameroons). (Under Ocotea Aubl.) .... Hypodaphnis Stapf 

 Anther -valves in superposed pairs. Ovary superior. — Species 15. Tropical 

 and South Africa, Canary Islands, Azores. They yield timber, fat, 

 CO idiments, and medicaments. (Including Mespilodaphne and Oreo- 

 daphne Nees). (Plate 51.) Ocotea Aubl. 



13. Leaves trinerved. Perianth-segments falling singly after the time of 



flowering. — Species 2 (C. zeylanicum Breyn, cinnamon, and C. cam- 

 phora Nees & Eberm., camphor). Cultivated in the tropics. They 

 yield timber, spices, and drugs for industrial and medicinal uses. 



Cinnamomum Blume 

 Leaves penninervedi Perianth persisting or falling off as a whole. . 14 



