382 LAURACEAE, [Cryptocarya. 
Orper LXXIII. LAURACEAE. 
Perianth herbaceous, with 6 or rarely fewer divisions, imbricate in 
e bud, in 2 series, or rarely wanting. Stamens usually as many or 
twice as many, opposite the perianth-segments, either all fertile or the 
3 innermost reduced to igbeen or abortive. Tater adnate, 2—4-celled, 
the cells opening by persistent valves turned upward. Ovary free, 1-celled, 
with 1 or rarely 2 pendulous ovules. Style simple, with an entire, usually 
disk-shaped, or a shortly 2+-3-lobed stigma. Fruit a 1-seeded berry or 
brs the persistent perianth or part of it often enlarged under or round 
it. Seed without albumen. Cotyledons large. — Trees or shrubs, with 
Altice entire leaves, or, in one genus, leafless twiners. Stipules none. 
owers iyaneensd small, in panicles, umbels or lateral rion 
A larg anwed gen aes Order, to which belong the Avocado or Alligator Pear, Pers 
grati eeima, the € om and Camphor trees, Cinnamomum Zeylanicum pe Cc. Toaned 
cultivated in canine 
A tree eens, analy Bea a) Rey eat 1. Cryptocarya. 
A twining leafless parasite ‘ ‘ ; 2. Cassytha. 
1. CRYPTOCARYA, R. Br. 
Flowers hermaphrodite. Perianth 6-lobed, funnel-shaped, the tube 
persistent and enlarging, with narrowed neck, the lobes deciduous. Fertile 
stamens 9, inserted in the throat with short flat filaments, the 3 inner 
ones with a sessile gland on each side; oe ovoid-oblong, 2-celled, 
not surpassed by the connective, the 3 inner extrorse. Staminodes 3, 
stipitate. Style short, with subcapitate NG Ovary immersed in the 
tube of the perianth. Fruit dry, free but entirely enclosed within the 
fleshy or dry periantheal tube. — Trees with alternate penninerved leaves 
and a axillary panicles 
0 species, scattered over the tropics of all continents. 
tC cola Hillebr. — A small tree with angular branches, the young 
leaves and inflorescence silky with a brownish tomentum. Leaves alternate, 
thick coriaceous, glabrate, oblong, 3—4/ >< 11/4 —15J4 . aes narrowing 
at the base, the broad and flat midrib running out i a flat margined 
petiole of 4—8", the main veins at acute, not eosin angles, the 
veinlets at pare angles to the latter and form a close rectangular 
network. Panicles or racemes axillary, */2>—3/s‘ oi few-flowered, the 
pedunele thick angular, about 4”, the sii very short, articulate at 
the base, 1”, with linear ions of the same length. Flowers herma- 
phrodite. Perianth sericeous outside and ud coriaceous, funnel-shaped, 
—— the angular narrow tube shorter than the lobes. Lobes 6 in 
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