134 cxxvin. LAURINE^:. ( J. D. Hooker.) [Cinnamomum. 



opposite 3-4 in. thinly coriaceous elliptic ovate or lanceolate obtusely 

 acuminate 3-nerved finely reticulate on both surfaces, panicles axillary very 

 slender shorter than the leaves few-fld., pedicels very long and slender, 

 flowers very small. 



SOUTFT DECCAN; Tinnevelly Hills, alt. 3-4500 ft., Seddome. 



A shrub or tree; branches usually pale. Leaves |-1| in. broad, pale green, sub- 

 caudate, glaucous or not beneath, base acute, nerves not produced to the tip ; petiole 

 slender, |-| in. Pa nicies 6-8-fld. ; pedicels -f in. long ; flowers -^ in., glaucous, 

 quite glabrous, as are the stamens and ovary. Apparently a very distinct and pretty 

 little species, but more specimens are wanted. 



** Leaves mostly alternate, triple-nerved. 



20. C. caudatum, Nees in Wall. PI. As. Ear. ii. 76, and Syst. Laurin. 

 83; leaves alternate 3-4 in. thinly coriaceous orbicular or elliptic obtusely 

 caudate-acuminate 3-5-nerved, flowers minute in very short axillary few-fld. 

 pubescent cymes, fruiting perianth turbinately funnel-shaped fleshy 6-lobed, 

 fruit ellipsoid or globose fleshy. Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 23 ; Kurz 

 For. Fl. ii. 289. Laurus caudata, Wall. Cat. 2603. 



CENTRAL and EASTERN HIMALAYA; Nepal, Wallich; Sikkim, alt. 1-4000 ft., 

 J. D. H. <$ T. T., &c. BURMA, in the Kakhyen Hills, Kurz. DISTHIB. Yunan. 



A large glabrous shrub with slender spreading branches. Leaves rarely opposite, 

 brown when dry, sometimes oblique, base acute, nervules transverse, very slender ; 

 petiole slender, ^ in. Cymes irregular, sometimes reduced to one or two axillary 

 flowers; flowers \ ri in. diam. ; pedicels slender. Fruiting perianth \-\ in. diara., very 

 fleshy. Fruit rarely obovoid. 



21. C. Perrottet ii, Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1.22; densely fulvous- 

 tomentose on branches and both surfaces of young leaves and panicles, 

 leaves mostly alternate long-petioled oblong or ovate-oblong 3-nerved tip 

 obtuse or rounded, panicles shorter or longer than the leaves stout few-fld., 

 flowers large subsessile. 



NILGHIRI HILLS, Perrottet, Wight. 



A shrub ? branches stout. Leaves thickly coriaceous, in age glabrous on both sur- 

 faces and shining above, base acute; petiole f-H i n - Flowers 3-nate, \ in. long, 

 sessile or narrowed into a very short stout pedicel, densely tomentose. Fruit 

 not seen. 



*** Leaves subopposite, penninerved. 



22. C. citriodorum, Thwaites Enum. 253 ; leaves 2-3 in. subopposite 

 quite glabrous densely coriaceous ovate or oblong obtuse penninerved, nerves 

 very faint, panicles longer than the leaves stout branched laxly many-fld. 

 subsilky, flowers stoutly pedicelled. Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 22. 



CEYLON; Saffragam and near Galagama, alt. 1-2000 ft., Thwaites. 



A tree, 20-30 ft. ; branches stout. Leaves very hard, pale brown and shining 

 when dry, base rounded or acute, nerves spreading from the very obscure midrid ; 

 petiole ^-J in. Flowers about ^ in. long, pedicels about as long. I have seen no fruit. 

 Meissner describes the calyx-lobes as deciduous, the fruiting calyx as truncate and 

 quite entire, 2 lines in diameter, and the fruit as ovoid. 



Sect. II. Camphora. Buds enclosed in large orbicular concave 

 silky caducous imbricating scales. Leaves alternate, penninerved ; axils of 

 principal nerves often pitted. Perianth-lobes wholly caducous in age. 



The Camphor tree, C. camphora, F. Nees (Wall. Cat. 6347), belongs to this sec- 

 tion ; it is commonly cultivated in India. 



