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Staminodes subsessile, 3-angular or very short. Berry ovate, naked 

 (perianth wholly deciduous), on thickened fleshy pedicel (nearly of 

 Alscodaph ),c). — Trees; leaves alternate, often crowded at end of 

 branches, penniveined ; bud-scales few foliaceous ; inflorescences sub- 

 terminal, often few-flowered {India 1 ). 



11. Beilschmiedia Nees. 2 — Flowers of Hufelandia or Nesodaphne; 

 perianth- leaves G, subequal deciduous. Germen imperfectly 2-celled, 

 1 -ovulate. Berry dry, supported on nearly flat persistent base of 

 receptacle. — Trees ; leaves alternate or subopposite, penniveined 

 reticulate ; inflorescences springing from an axillary bud ; bracts 

 deciduous 3 (India*). 



12. Aiouea Aubl. 5 — Flowers elongated; receptacle long obconical 

 infnndibuliform, usually pubescent inside ; perianth-leaves short, con- 

 tinuous with receptacle, finally deciduous with upper part of receptacle 

 by circumscission. Stamens 9-12, inserted in throat of receptacle; 

 6 outer perfect ; anthers apiculate ; cells 2, introrse lateral or 

 extrorse ; 3 inner sterile, opposite outer perianth-leaves antherless, 

 2-glandular at base. Staminodes 3 small (or ?). Germen inserted 

 in bottom of, and closely surrounded by, receptacle. Berry oblong 

 naked, supported on nearly plane persistent base of receptacle and 

 thickened long-obconical or clavate pedicel. — Trees or shrubs ; leaves 

 alternate coriaceous penniveined or more rarely 3-ribbed ; inflores- 

 cences usually crowded into lax, dichotomously branching cymi- 

 ferous corymbs ; pedicels thin 6 (Tropical South America 1 ). 



1 Species about 16. Nees, Syst., 124 (Persea, s Guian., i. 310, t. 120. — J., Gen., 80. — 

 subsect. Corynop/odes) ; in Wall. PL Asiat. Nees, Syst., 354, 362. — Endl., Gen., n. 2050. 

 Bar., ii. 70 (Mackilus). — Bl., in Bumphia, i. — Meissn., Prodr., 82, 509. — Douglasia 

 162 ; Mus. Lugd.-Bat., i. 333 {Dehaasia). — Schreb., Gen., n. 1761. — Ehrliardia Scop. 

 Miq., Fl. Ind.-Bat., i. 928. — Jack., Mai. Misc., (ex Meissn., loc. cit.). 



ii. 7, 33 ? (Laurus). — Wight., Icon., t. 1831. — 6 This genus, ascribed by authors to Crypto- 



Thw., BJnum. PI. Zeyl., 253. caryea on account of its greatly elongated con- 



2 Syst., 192, 197. — Endl., Gen., n. 2034. — cave receptacle — which is indeed anomalous in 

 Meissn., Prodr., 62. Cinnamomece — must yet be classed in the latter 



3 This genus, nearest to Haasia, and (among group because of its wholly free germen, din'er- 

 the Cinnaniomea) analogous to Cryptocarya, ing from Ciimamomum and the neighbouring 

 differs from the former chiefly in the structure genera only in its longer obconical receptacle, 

 of the germen and fruit. The ripe fruit is altogether that of Alseodaphne, 



4 Species 6, 7. Roxb., Jlort. Calc, 30 (Lau. and is not enclosed in the sacciform receptacle. 

 rvs). — Be., Bijdr., 555 {Laurus). — Zoll., 7 Species about 7. Neks, in Linnaa, xxi. 

 Verz., 113 {Haasia).— Wall., Cat., n. 2539 512; in Bat., Zeit., xxii., Beibl., 64.— Roem. & 

 (Tetranthera). — Miq., PL Ind.-Bat., i. 919, Sen., Syst., vii. n. 1300.— Walp., Ann., iii. 

 969 {Daphnidiuni). — Bl., Mus. Lugd.-Bat., i. 311. 



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