x. laueacej:. 



I. CINNAMON SERIES. 

 The study of this order may be commenced by the analysis of the 



Cinnamomum zeylanicum. 



Fig. 240. — Floriferous branch (\). 



Ceylon Cinnamon-tree (figs. 240-243), the type of the genus Cinna- 

 momum. 1 The flowers of C. zeylanicum" are regular and hermaphrodite. 



1 Buem., Fl. Zeyl., 62. — Nees, Laur. Disp. daphne Nees, Malabathrvm Burm., Parthen- 



Progr., 11 ; Systema Laurinarum, 31. — Esdl., orylon Bl.). 



Gen., n. 2023. — Meissn., in DC. Prodr., xv. - Bkeyn., in Eph. Not. Cur., dec. 1, ann. 4, 



sect. i. 9, 503 (incl.: Campliora Nees, Cecido- 139. — Nees, in Wall. PI. Asiat. Rar., ii. 7 k — 



