LAXJKACE-aE. 



SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. 



9 



OCOTEA. 



Flowers polygamo-dioecious or rarely perfect ; calyx 6-lobed, the lobes in two series, 

 imbricated in aestivation, usually deciduous ; corolla ; stamens 12, in four series, those 

 of the inner series sterile; disk 0; ovary superior, 1 -celled ; ovule solitary, suspended. 



Leaves alternate or rarely subopposite, destitute of stipules, persistent. 



Fruit baccate. 



Ocotea, Aubletj PL Guian. ii. 780 (1775), —A. L. de Jus- Leptodaphne, C G. Nees ab Esenbeck, PL Laur. Expos 



sieu, Gen. 80. 



326. 



Gen. iii. 157. 

 pt. ii. 116. 



Endlicher, Gen. 321. — Melsner, Gen. 



Hist 



Bentham & Hooker, 

 \ntl Pflanzenfam. iii. 



Senneberia, Necker, Elem. BoL ii.l20 (1790). 

 Gymnobalanus, C- G. Nees ab Esenbeck, Lm 



(1833). 



Endlicher, Gen. 322. — Meisner, Gen. 326 



BaiUon, Hist. PL ii. 477. 

 Oreodaphne, C. G. Nees ab Esenbeek, Linncea^ viii. 39 



(1833). — Endlicher, Gen. 321. — Meisner, Gen. 326. 

 Mespilodaphne, C. G. Nees ab Esenbeek, Linncea. viii. 45 



(1833). 



Endlicher, Gen. 319. — Meisner, Gen. 325. 



BaiUon, Hist. PL ii. 476. 



16 (1833). — Endlicher, Gen. 320. — Meisner, Gen. 

 326. 



Camphoromoea; C. G. Nees ab Esenbeek, PL Laur. Expos. 



16 (1833). — Endlicher, Gen. 321. — Meisner, Gen. 

 326. 



Strychnodaphne, C. G. Nees ab Esenbeek, PL Laur. Expos. 



17 (1833). — BaiUon, Hist. PL ii. 476. 

 Petalanthera, C. G. Nees ab Esenbeek, Syst. Laur. 346 



(1836). — Endlicher, Gen. 320. — Meisner, Gen. 326. 

 Agathophyllum, Blume, Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. i. 338 (in 



part) (not A. L. de Jussieu) (1851). 

 ? Dendrodaphne, Beurling, Kongl. Svenska Akad. 1854, 

 145 {Prim. FL Portoh.) (1856). 



Teleiandra, C. G. Nees ab Esenbeek, Linncea^ viii. 46 Nemodaphne, Meisner, De Candolle Prodr. xv. pt. i. 109 



(1833). — Endlicher, Gen. 320. — Meisner, Gen. 326. 



(1864). 



Aromatic 



shrubs. Leaves scattered, alternate 



xely subopposite^ penniveined 



gid; glabrous or more or less covered with pubescence. Flowers usually small^ yellowish white 



glabrous or tomentose 



cymose clusters arranged 



Uary or subterminal pedunculate panicles 



Pedicels slender, developed from the 



of lanceolate-acute minute bracts and furnished with 



deciduous bractlets. Calyx-tube campanulate or nearly obsolete, the six lobes of the Hmb nearly equal, 

 deciduous or rarely persistent under the fruit. Stamens twelve, in four series, those of the inner series 

 reduced to staminodia ; filaments inserted on the tube of the calyx, those of the outer series opposite 

 its exterior lobes, flattened, shorter or sometimes rather longer than the anthers, glabrous or hirsute, 

 furnished in the third series, or, in one species, in the three outer series, near the base, with two con- 

 spicuous sessile or stipitate glands ; anthers oblong, flattened, four-celled, the cells superposed in pairs, 

 opening from below upward by persistent lids, introrse in the two outer series, extrorse, subextrorse or 

 very rarely introrse in the third series ; in the pistillate flower rudimentary and sterile. Ovary one- 

 celled, ovoid, obovoid, or subglobose, glabrous or rarely pilose, more or less immersed in the tube of the 

 calyx, gradually narrowed into an erect short or elongated style dilated at the apex into a capitate 

 obscurely lobed stigma ; in the staminate flower linear-lanceolate, effete, or minute, or sometimes 

 wanting ; ovule sohtary, suspended from the apex of the cell, anatropous ; raphe ventral j micropyle 

 superior. Fruit baccate, ellipsoidal or subglobose, nearly inclosed while young in the thickened tube of 

 the calyx, exserted at maturity and surrounded at the base only by the cup-like truncate or slightly 

 lobed calyx or rarely by its persistent limb; pericarp thin and fleshy. Seed ovate or subglobose, 

 pendulous, destitute of albumen ; testa thin, membranaceous. Embryo erect, filHng the cavity of the 

 seed ; cotyledons thick and fleshy, inclosing the minute superior radicle turned toward the hilum.^ 



1 By Mez, Jahrb. Konig. Bot, Gart. v. 221 (Lauracece Americance Hemiocotea. Flowers perfect ; filaments of the three outer 



Monog,) the American species of Ocotea are arranged under the series of stamens biglandular at the base. 

 following subgenera : — Dendrodaphne. Flowers perfect ; filaments of only the third 



