462 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



GENERA. 



I. CINNAMOME^l. 



1. Cinnamomum Burm. — Flowers hermaphrodite, or more rarely 

 polygamous; receptacle infundibuliform ; perianth perigynous ; 

 perianth-leaves 6, valvate 2-seriate subpetaloid, finally deciduous by 

 transverse rupture at or above base. Stamens 1 2, 4-seriate ; fertile 

 9, anthers superposed-4-locellate ; in 6 outer fertile stamens anthers 

 introrse ; in 3 inner anthers extrorse, filaments bearing 2 lateral 

 glands above base. Sterile stamens (staminodes) 3, oppositipetalous, 

 ovate or oblong. Germen inserted in bottom of receptacle ; ovule 

 1, attached near apex, descending anatropous ; micropyle introrse 

 superior. Fruit a berry ; pericarp thin ; fruit adhering to thickened 

 cupuliform evenly truncated base of receptacle, and 6-merous more 

 or less hardened base of perianth. Seed exalbuminous ; embryo 

 fleshy thick ; cotyledons ensheathing straight short superior radicle 

 at base. — Trees or shrubs, evergreen, nearly all aromatic ; leaves 

 opposite or alternate, exstipulate, penniveined or at base 3-5-veined, 

 more rarely triple or quintuplivcined ; leaf-buds bare, scales obsolete 

 (Malabathrmn) or perulate ; flowers in racemes ; racemes axillary or 

 terminal, simple or bearing 3- cc-flowered cymes {Tropical and sub- 

 tropical Asia). See p. 426. 



2. Phoebe Nees. 1 — Flowers almost those of Cinnamomum ; recep- 

 tacle shortly infundibuliform, entirely persistent erect with indurated 

 perianth round fruit, base often becoming subligneous. Berry on a 

 pedicel of variable thickness. Other characters of Cinnamomum. — 

 Trees or shrubs, leaves alternate or sub verticil late penniveined or 

 tripliveined ; gemmse with few leafy scales ; flowers in axillary and 



1 Syst., 98.— Endl., Gen., n. 2026.— Meissn., Trodr., 29, 501. 



