132 cxxviu. LAURINE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Cinnamomum. 



t. 123, 129, 134; Wall. Cat. 2573 ; Beddome For. Fl. t. 262, and For. Man. 

 184, and Flor. Sylv. t. 242; Bentl. Sf Trim. Med. TL iii. t. 224; Tktvaites 

 Enum. 252 (eoccl. some vars.) Kurz For. Fl. ii. 287 ; Miquel FL Ind. Bat. 

 i. 898. C. aromaticum, Grab. Cat. Bomb. PI. 173 ; Dalz. <$f Gibs. Bomb. 

 Fl. Suppl. 71. ? C. iners, Wight Ic. t. 122 bis. Lauras cinnamomum, Roxl. 

 Fl. Ind. ii. 295. L. nitida, Watt. Cat. 2582 P B. L. Cassia, Burm. Fl. Ind. 

 91 ; Ham. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. 555 ; Spreng. Syst. ii. 567 ; Bot. Mag. 

 t. 1636, copied in Wight Ic. t. 128. 



TENASSERIM, BURMA and the MALAY PENINSULA,- DECCAN PENINSULA and 

 CEYLON, indigenous or cultivated. DISTRIB. Cultivated in the Malay Islands and 

 elsewhere in the tropics. 



I am unable to unravel the synonymy of the varieties attributed to this species by 

 Nees and others. Thwaites suspects that it passes into C. nitidum and iners. This 

 is possible if the fruiting calyces prove the same, though not into C. obtusifolium, 

 which, besides its characters of leaf and panicle, appears to have a different range. I 

 have also kept C. muUiftorum and ovalifolium (which Thwaites unites with zeylanicum) 

 as distinct, though with hesitation. Kurz (For. Fl.) describes the fruiting perianth of 

 zeylanicum as truncately 5-cleft, but I find the lobes in fruit all perfect and rounded 

 in what I take to be typical specimens. Meissuer's var,, fceniculaceum (Ceylon, 

 Thwaites 2284) seems to have no recognizable character, and Thwaites does not dis- 

 tinguish it. Vars. inodorum and Cassia of Nees I suppose to be the same thing, and 

 re the faintly aromatic wild forms, passing probably into nitidum, the fruiting 

 ' riauth of which is unknown. Beddome's figure of zeylanicum is of a very coarse - 

 ved var. from the Nilghiris, which he calls Var. Wi.qhtii ; his fig. 11 on the same 

 plate representing what he supposes to be fruit of iners is perhaps referable to 

 C. macrocarpum. 



13. C. multiflorum, Wight Ic. t. 126 and 131 ; branches slender, 

 branchlets and young leaves beneath clothed with fine white pubescence, 

 leaves opposite 2-4 in. thinly coriaceous usually ovate-lanceolate acuminate 

 3-nerved, panicles slender much branched many-fld., flowers small subcorym- 

 bose, pedicels slender, perianth \ in. long. Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 15. 

 C. zeylanicum, var. /3., Thwaites Enum. 252. C. villosum & dubium, Wight 

 Ic. t. 127, 135. C. perpetuo-florens, Burm. Fl. Zeyl. 63 ; Wight Ic. t. 141. 

 C. iners, var. 6\ ? dubium, Meissn. I. c. 20. Laurus dubia, Wall. Gat. 2571. 



CEYLON ; common in the Central Province, ascending to 3000 ft. 



This, which Thwaites^finds it difficult to distinguish from zeylanicum, is a more 

 slender plant, with much smaller and less coriaceous leaves, and very much smaller 

 flowers. Wallich's L. dubia received from Wight as L. Cassia seems the same thing, 

 and probably came from Ceylon. 



14. C. sulplmratum, Nees in Wall. PI. As. Rar. ii. 74, and Syst. 

 Laur. 55 ; branches petioles young leaves beneath or on both surfaces and 

 panicles densely fulvous-tomentose, leaves thickly coriaceous elliptic oblong 

 or ovate-lanceolate obtuse or acute 3-5-nerved, panicles shorter than the 

 leaves long-peduncled, flowers few corymbose, perianth in. long lobes per- 

 sistent, fruit j\-| in. ellipsoid fleshy. Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 18 

 (eycl. vars. and syn. villosum). Laurus malabathrum, Wall. Cat. 2583 D. 



NILGHIRI HILLS, Heyne, &c. 



Leaves very variable in breadth, base acute, nerves very strong and often pubes- 

 cent on the upper surface, old perfectly glabrous and very rigidly coriaceous, in 

 mountain ? specimens often short broad and convex with recurved margins; petiole 

 usually short, J in., and stout. Panicles stout, 2-4 in. Fruiting perianth J in. diam., 

 lobes rounded. Frmt minutely apiculate. Very closely allied to C. Tavoyanum, if 

 not conspecitic. 



15. C. Wig-htii, Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 11; branches and 



