Cmnamomum.] cxxvm. LAURINEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) 131 



TENASSERIM; at Mergui, Griffith. PENANG and BUEMA, Wallich. CANABA?, 

 Herb. Stocks <$ Dalzell. D'ISTEIB. Malay Islands and Moluccas. 



Very like C. iners, and perhaps only a variety, but the flowers are longer and 

 almost twice as large. Roxburgh's L. Culitlaban, for which he cites Willdenow, 

 and which he identifies with Humph. Amb. ii. t. 14, is from Amboyna, and described 

 as a slender Cypress-like tree with short appressed branches, and panicles stouter than 

 the leaves; his figure (Wight Ic. t. 137) represents the leaves as much more acute 

 than in the specimen in Herb. Wallich. 



9. C. Tavoyanum, Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 20; branchlets 

 young leaves beneath and panicles tomentosely pubescent, leaves 4-6 in. 

 elliptic- or oblong-lanceolate obtusely acuminate 3-nerved, panicles slender 

 long-peduncled few-fld., flowers long-pedicelled in. long. C. sulphuratum, 

 Kurz For. Fl. ii. 288, not of Nees. C. sulphuratum y merguense, Meissn. 

 I. c. 18. C. lucens, Miquel Ann. Mus. Sot. Lugd. Bat. i. 261. C. obtusi- 

 foliura, var., Wall. Cat. 2569 G. 



TENASSERIM ; at Tavoy, Gomez-, Mergui, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 4241), Heifer 

 (Kew Distrib. 4245, C. iners ?) ; Moulmein, Parish. 



This again is very near C. iners, from which the copious fulvous tomentum, 

 narrower leaves, usually slender and longer petiole, longer pedicels and larger flowers 

 distinguish it. It is also very near if not identical with C. sulphur a turn, but in the 

 absence of fruit I do not venture to unite it. 



10. C. vimineum, Nees Syst. Laur. 82, and in Wall. PL As. Rar. ii. 



76 ; quite glabrous, branches very slender, leaves 3-4 in. subopposite lan- 

 ceolate obtuse 3-nerved shining above, margins waved. Jbfeissn. in DC. 

 Prodr. xv. 1.19. Laurus viminea, Wall. Cat. 2578. 



PENANG; Porter. 



The Blender habit and small shining leaves with waved margins distinguish this 

 species. There are no flowers in Wallich's specimens, and two flowers distributed 

 with it to Herb. Hook, are detached, and perhaps do not belong to the leaf-bearing 

 ones ; they are very small and nearly glabrous. Kurz informs me that boiled leaves 

 smell of fennel. 



11. C. xnollissixnum, HooTc.f. ; branches petioles and leaves beneath 

 densely villous with soft white hairs, leaves elliptic acuminate .3-nerved, 

 peduncles very slender strict few-fld. shorter than th^leaves, flowers minute 

 shortly pedicelled. 



PJENANG; Curtis. 



Branches slender, but thickened by the long soft spreading hairs. Leaves 5-6 in., 

 pale greyish white beneath when dry, above pale green and finely softly hairy, at 

 length glabrate; nerves strong beneath, reaching the tip; petiole stout, g \ in. 

 Peduncle 2 in., trichotomously branched at the tip only. Flowers ^ in. long, 

 tomentose, pedicels hardly as long. Perianth-lobes short, rounded. A very remark- 

 able and singularly fragrant species. 



r. Species of the Deccan Peninsula and Ceylon. (See C. iners Sf 

 nitidum in b.) 



12. C. zeylanicum, Breyn in Ephem. Nat. Cur. dec. i. ann. 4, 139; 

 leaves 4-7 in. glabrous very coriaceous ovate or ovate-lanceolate 3-5-nerved 

 obtuse or subacute reticulate beneath, panicle often longer than the leaves 

 subsilkily pubescent, perianth in. long, fruiting peduncle campanulate in. 

 diam. crowned with the rouncfea perianth-lobes, fruit oblong f in. long 

 apiculate dry. Nees Syst. Laur in. 95, and in Wall. PL As, Rar. ii. 74, and 

 iii. 32; Meissn* in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 13; Blume ijd. 588; Wight Ic. 



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