LAURACEJE. 473 



Stamens 12, fertile 9, connate into a ring at very base; outer 6 in- 

 trorse ; inner 3 extrorse, 2-glandular at base ; anthers of all with 4 

 locelli in two superposed pairs ; 3 innermost ligulate staminodes. 

 Germen inserted in bottom of receptacle (sometimes sterile ?) ; style 

 cylindrical, apex stigmatiferous obtuse. Berry supported on clavate 

 thickened receptacle. — Trees ; leaves alternate penniveined ; inflores- 

 cences axillary lax {Tropical America?). 



34? Symphysodaphne A. Rich. 2 — "Flowers hermaphrodite. 

 Perianth 6-partite, lobes erect, ovate-acute. Stamens 3, fertile 

 connate into a tube including pistil and topping perianth, with its 

 apex extrorsely antheriferous. Staminodes and glands (?). Germen 

 ovate, tapering into slender style ; stigma obtuse convex. Fruit 

 .... ? — A tree ; leaves alternate veined ; inflorescences solitary in 

 upper axils" 3 {Cuba*). 



35. Sassafras Bauh. — Flowers dioecious ; receptacle subconcave 

 thin ; perianth-leaves 0, membranous subpetaloid, deciduous above 

 base. Stamens 9, subperigynous (in female sterile and glandular at 

 apex, with some often wanting), 3-seriate, filaments elongated 

 slender ; innermost 3 bearing two lateral stipitate glands at base ; 

 anthers fertile, all introrse 4-locellate ; locelli superposed in pairs ; 

 upper pair smaller. Germen (in male flower wholly wanting) sessile ; 

 style slender, more or less bowed ; apex capitate subdiscoid stigma- 

 tiferous. Berry obovate or subglobose, at base shortly tapering 

 supported on subclavate top of pedicel and surrounded by cupuliform 

 6-crenate or 6-dentate base of perianth. — Trees; buds perulate ; 

 leaves alternate tripliveined, entire or lobed deciduous ; flowers 

 racemose long-pedicellate, bursting out of an involucre of silky scales 

 {North America). See p. 435. 



3G. Sassafridium Meissn. — " Flowers hermaphrodite : perianth 

 subcorolline rotate ; lobes deciduous. Fertile stamens 9, inserted 

 at base of perianth-leaves, all introrse and 4-locellate ; innermost 3 

 2-glandular. Staminodes 3, interior to stamens, small capitate. 



1 Species 2, 3. Guiseb., M.Brit. W. Ind., 3 An unpublished description ; diameters taken 

 i. 282 (Nectaiidra). from a plate. 



2 In Ram. Sagr. Fl. Cub., t. 67.— MEIBSN., * Species 1. S. cubensis A. Rich., he. at. 

 Prodr., 175. 



