dnnamomum.] oxxvm. LAURINE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) 133 



petioles very robust, terminal buds globose silky, leaves subopposite 3-4 in. 

 thickly coriaceous elliptic broadly ovate or pbloog obtuse glaucous beneath, 

 nerves 3-5 continued to near the 'tip, panicles fulvous-tomentose usually 

 longer than the leaves, peduncle branches and pedicels very stout few- or 

 many-fld., perianth in. lobes deciduous, fruit globose seated on the very 

 thick obconic base of the perianth. C. Bazania, var. parvifolia, Nees in 

 Wall. PL As. Ear. iii. 32, and Syst. Laurin. 36. 



NILGHIEI HILLS, Wight, Perrottet, &c. ; Dindygul, Wight. 



Branches as thick as a goose-quill, apparently soft, shrinking and black when dry, 

 young nearly glabrous. Leaves sometimes almost rounded, finely reticulated beneath, 

 base acute; petiole ^- in., often very broad. Panicles long-peduncled ; pedicels 

 shorter than the perianth. Fruit % in. diam. ; base of perianth about in. diain., 

 obcouic, fleshy. Apparently a very distinct species, but I am not.certain that the 

 fruit is normal, it has a diseased look. 



16. C. ovalifolium, Wight Ic. t. 125 ; branches and petioles very 

 robust, terminal buds very small, leaves subopposite 3-4 in. thickly coria- 

 ceous elliptic orbicular or sublanceolate tip rounded or obtuse, nerves 3 

 vanishing beyond the middle, panicles hoary usually shorter than the leaves 

 long-peduncled few-fld. Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 22. T3. zeylanicum, 

 var. ovalifolium, Thwaites Enum. 252. 



CEYLON ; in the Central Province, alt. 4-8000 ft. 



Very young branchlets and leaves silky. Leaves rarely 5 in. long and elliptic- 

 lanceolate, pale and finely reticulated beneath, with 3 faint or distinct nerves, base 

 sometimes cordate; petiole usually short and very stout, but sometimes in. 

 Panicles solitary or 2-3-nate, often only 3-fld. Perianth about ^ in. long. Thwaites, 

 from a note on his specimens made subsequently to the publication of his Enumeratio, 

 was disposed to regard this as distinct from zeylanicum. The evanescence of the 

 three nerves beyond the middle of the leaf is a very constant but not an absolute 

 character. 



17. C. litsese folium, Thwaites Enum. 253 ; glabrous or nearly so, 

 leaves subopposite 3-5 in. thickly coriaceous ovate or oblong tip obtuse or 

 rounded, nerves 3-5 very indistinct rarely produced to the middle, petiole 

 slender, panicles subterminal longer than the leaves branched laxly many- 

 fld,, perianth small campanulate silky, lobes early caducous. Meissn. in 

 DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 22. 



CEYLON ; Central Province, at Hapotelle, alt. 5000 ft., Thwaites. 



A tree, 50-60 ft. high, branched at the top ; branchlets and small terminal buds 

 subsilky. Leaves hard, flat, pale brown ; nerves almost immersed in the substance ; 

 base acute ; petiole -f in. Panicles on long stout peduncles ; flowers subcorymbose 

 at the ends of the branches ; pedicels longer than the perianth, stout. Perianth 

 about T^J in. long. 



18. C. macrocarpum, Hook. /. ; branches slender, leaves 5-8 in. 

 oblong-lanceolate 3-5-nerved, petiole f-1 in., fruiting perianth f in. diain. 

 broadly funnel-shaped very shortly 6-toothed, fruit 1 in. long globosely 

 oblong. C. iners, Wight Ic. t. 130. Carua, Ham. in Trans. Linn. Soc. i. 57. 

 Rheede Hort. Mai. i. t. 51. 



CANAEA, Dalzell. 



Leaves 1^3 in. broad, rather thinly coriaceous, very faintly reticulate beneath, 

 lateral nerves sometimes f in. above the base ; petiole f-1 in. Panicles shorter than 

 the leaves ; fruiting peduncle long, slender for the size of the fruit, which is much 

 the largest of the genus. Fruiting perianth apparently fleshy, together with the 

 thickened pedicel nearly 1 in. long. 



19. C. gracile, Hook, f.; quite glabrous, branches slender, leaves 



