130 cxxvui. LAURINEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Cinnamomum. 



5. C. javanicum, Blume Bijd. 570, and Rumph. 42, t. 19 ; branches 

 petioles young leaves beneath and panicles fulvous-tomentose at length 

 glabrate, leaves 6-12 in. elliptic or elliptic-oblong acuminate strongly 3- 

 jierved transverse nerves very strong beneath, panicle shorter than the 

 leaves few-fld. Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 10. 



^ SI&GAPOBE, at Madang, Cantley. ? Penang, Walker. DISTEIB. Java, Su- 

 matra, Borneo. 



Branches robust. Leaves firmly coriaceous, shining above ; petiole stout. Pani- 

 cles 3-4 in. long, perianth densely tomentose. Fruit unknown. The Singapore 

 specimens in late flower are certainly the Javan plant, but the Penaug ones, which 

 have neither flower nor fruit, have the leaves more narrowed into the very short thick 

 petiole. 



6. C. Cassia, Blume Bijd. 570 ? ; leaves 3-4 in. glabrous oblong to 

 oblong-lanceolate caudate-acuminate 3-nerved, petiole slender, panicles 

 cymose silky terminal and axillary, flowers small, fruit the size of a pea 

 with the perianth-lobes persistent or truncate. 



AVA ; on the Kakhyen Hills, Kurz. DISTBIB. China. 



I have refrained from quoting synonyms for Kurz's plant, of which I have seen 

 no specimens ; it is remarkable 'for the small size of the fruit, in which respect it 

 agrees with the plant that yields the Cassia bark of China, but differs iu the perianth - 

 lobes being sometimes persistent, these being wholly deciduous in the China plant, 

 leaving a perfectly entire mouth of the fruiting perianth. In Bentley and Trimen's 

 Med. PI. (iii. t. 233) they are represented as minute and persistent. 



7. C. iners, Reinw. in Blume Bijd. 570 ; leaves glabrous 3-8 in. 

 lanceolate oblong or linear-oblong 3-nerved, base acute or obtuse, panicles 

 slender long-peduncled often exceeding the leaves silkily pubescent, flowers 

 small, perianth -} in. long lobes persistent, fruit oblong in. long base sunk in 

 the perianth. Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 19 (excl.var.y.) ; Nees in Wall. 

 PI. As. liar. ii. 73 ; Wight Ic. t. 122 ; ? Kurz For. Fl. ii. 287. C. mala- 

 bathrum, Batka in Nov. Act. Nat. Cur. xvii. 2. 618, t. 45; Nees Syst. Laur. 

 38, 663. C. Grifnthii, Meissn. I c. 19. C. gracile, Miguel Ann. 'Mus. Bot. 

 Lugd. Bat. i. 259. Lauras malabathrum, Wall. Cat. 2583 A in part (not 

 of Roxb.). L. nitida, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 300 ; Wall. Cat. 2582, excl. B. 



TENASSEEIM, Kurz; at Mergui, Griffith. MALACCA, Griffith, Maingay (Kew 

 Distrib. 1242, 1243). PENANG, Wallich, Phillips. DISTEIB. Sumatra, Java. 



A tree, branchlets nearly glabrous. Leaves very variable in breadth, rarely ovate 

 and rounded at the base, shining above, nerves continued to the tip. Panicles very 

 lax-fld., with spreading branches and pedicels; flowers about -^ in. long. Fruiting 

 perianth rather spreading when dry, ^ in. diam. Kurz describes the fruiting perianth 

 as truncately 6-lobed, implying that the lobes are partially deciduous, and the fruib 

 as | in. long, which makes me donbt the identity of his plant with that described 

 above. Wallich's L. malabathrum is, I think, this, and is not Roxburgh's, who 

 takes the name, following Solauder, for Rheede's Malabar plant. There is in the Kew 

 Herbarium a Canara specimen of what resembles this, but it is not in fruit. 



8. P C. nitidum, Blume Rumph. i. 35, t. 13, f. 2, and t. 16, f. 1, 2 ; 

 leaves 3-9 in. glabrous elliptic oblong or linear-oblong obtuse 3-nerved, 

 panicles slender long-peduncled often longer than the leaves silkily 

 ptfbescent, perianth in. long lobes rounded and persistent in fruit. 

 C. iners, y. subvenosum, in part, Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 21. C. 

 eucalyptoides, F. Nees PI. Off. Suppl. fasc. iv. t. 9 ; Nees Syst. Laur. 41. 

 C. iners, Wall. Cat. 2583 E, and in Wall. PI. As. Ear. ii. 73. ? L. Culit- 

 laban, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 299 ; Wight Ic. t. 137 ; Wall. Cat. 2583 C. Laurus 

 malabathrum, L. ?, Wall. Cat. 2583 in part (not of Roxb.}. 



