Daiu.nai.es.] 



LAUR \« I.I.. 





Order CCV. LAURACE^.— Laui 



Laud, Just. Oen. 80. (1789).— I.aurine;r, Vent. 5 



As. Ear. 2. 5s ; Laurin. ExposiUo, U833); Endl. (■ 



Diagnosis. — Daphnal Exogens, with antJu 



ami naked fruit. 



Tr« es, often of great size. Leavi - without stipules, alternate, seldom opposite, entire 

 or very rarely lobed. Inflorescence panicled or umbelled. Calyx 1-6-cleft, a • 



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$ $ by abortion, with imbricated aestivation, the limb s< 

 times obsolete. Petals 0. Stamens definite, 

 site tin- segments of the calyx, and usually tv» 

 tlie 3 innermost, which arc opposite the 3 inn< r 

 ih>' calyx, sterile or deficient ; tin- < ; outen 

 abortive : anthers adnate, 2-4-celled ; the cells 

 longitudinal persistent valve from the base t" I 

 outer anthers valved inwards, the inner valved 

 both valved inwards]. Some glands usually j 

 of the inner filaments. Ovary superior, I 

 o ~> '', '■'< valvato earprllary leaves, and ..- many rib-1 

 :> ° tinel at the sutures, all generally imperfect except one, i I.), 

 ith one or two single pendulous 

 'I obtuse, '2- or ."> lobed. Fruil 

 "a covered, often placed upon or within the < 

 flower-stalks. Seed without albumei 

 ledons large, plano-convex, 

 short, superior : plumule conspicuous. 



Laurels are distinguished from ..11 

 tyledons, excepl Plume Nuti 

 oi their anther-, and the} 

 ovule being pendulous, not i r ■• I 

 resemble Nutmegs, which are at once known by their miar 



Fig. < CCLXVI 



Fig. CM i I.W. -Litsaea Baueri. 1. a malt I 

 i. an anther, with the recurred valves ; .'•. a cluster i f fru 

 plumule adhering to the inner f. 



Fig. CCCLXVL- -Dehaasia media. 



