470 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



25. Mespilodaphne Nees. 1 — Flowers hermaphrodite or dioecious ; 

 receptacle infundibuliform subcamparmlate or obconical ; perianth- 

 leaves 6 equal, deciduous or more or less persistent. Stamens 9, 

 fertile, 3 innermost extrorse 2-celled; anthers with 2 superposed 

 pairs of locelli ; sterile stamens or minute. Germen closely in- 

 volved in receptacle. Berry included in perianth, more or less con- 

 stricted at apex or half-exserted ; rim of cupule simple or rarely 

 double {Nemodaph n(f). — Trees or shrubs; leaves alternate or sub- 

 verticillate, coriaceous penniveined, sometimes reticulate ; inflores- 

 cences axillary or terminal 3 {Tropical America, Mascarene Islands*). 



III. OCOTEEiE. 



26. Ocotea Aubl. — Flowers dioecious, more rarely hermaphrodite ; 

 receptacle shortly infundibuliform or cupuliform ; perianth-leaves 6, 

 equal or subequal, deciduous. Fertile stamens 9 ; outer 6 introrse, 

 with 2 pairs of superposed locelli ; inner 3 extrorse 2 -glandular. 

 Staminodes 0, or more rarely small tooth-like subulate or obsolete. 

 Germen free, scarcely immersed in receptacle. Berry immersed in 

 truncate entire cupuliform receptacle ; pedicel thickened slightly or 

 not at all. — Trees or shrubs ; leaves alternate, usually coriaceous, 

 penniveined or very rarely pseudo-tripliveined ; flowers cj'mose, 

 arranged in simple or branched axillary or terminal racemes {Tropical 

 and subtropical America, Continent and Islands E. and IV. of Tropical 

 Africa). See p. 434. 



27. Strychnodaphne Nees. 5 — Flowers of Ocotea; perianth all 

 persistent ; berry supported on nearly flat or slightly concave 

 receptacle and surrounded at base by short 0-lobed spreading 

 perianth. Other parts of Ocotea. — Trees or shrubs ; leaves alternate 

 penniveined ; inflorescences axillary or terminal {Tropical America 1 "). 



1 Syst., 192, 235.— Endl., Gen., n. 2039 — PI. Wright, 188 (Xeciandra).— Metss>.\, in 

 Meissx., Prodr., 96, 510. Mart. Fl. Bras., Laurac, 186, t. 67-75. 



2 Meissx., Prodr., 109. •' Progr., 17; in Linncea, viii. 39.— Meissx., 

 8 This genus conies very near Ocotea. Prodr., 1 12. 



4 Species about 50. Xees, in Linixra, viii. • Species 3 or 4. Poir., Diet., Suppl., ill . 



45. — Speexg., Syst., ii. 496 (Myginda). — 323 (Laurus).— Nees, Syst., 354, 471 (part., 



H. B. K., Nov. Gen. et Spec, vii. 192, t. 645 Ocotea); in Linnaa, xxi. 52 L— S\v., Fl. Ind. 



(Cryptocarya).—BL., Mus. Lugd.-Bat., i. 338 Occ, ii. 721 (Laurtis).— Mei^x., in Mart. Fl. 



(Agathophyllv.m, ex part.). — Lame., Diet., iii. Brat., Laurac, 244, t. 86. 

 447 } III., t. 331, tig. 2 (Laurus). — Geiseb., 



