470 Lauraceae 



7B. Perianth-segments 6; stamens 9(-12); leaves usually penninerved. 



8A. Lower surface of leaves tomentose; perianth-tube developed into a cup enclosing the base of the fruit 8. Litsea 



8B. Lower surface of leaves glabrous or nearly so; perianth-tube not developed into a cup enclosing the base of fruit. 



9. Actinodaphne 



1. CASSYTHA L. Sunazuru Zoku 



Epiphytic twining parasitic herbs; stems filiform, much-branched, adhering to the host by holdfasts; leaves small, scalelike, 

 alternate; inflorescence spicate, racemose, or in heads, in axils of scalelike leaves; flowers sessile or short-pedicelled, bisexual, 

 sometimes dimorphic, the bracteoles 2, minute; perianth-segments 6, persistent, the inner 3 connate below into an ovoid tube; 

 perfect stamens 9, the 6 outer ones introrse, without glands, the inner 3 extrorse, each with a gland on each side; staminodes 

 subsessile or stipitate; fruit enclosed in a fleshy perianth-tube. About 30 species, in the tropics. 



1. Cassytha filiformis L. Sunazuru. Glabrous, slen- perianth-segments elliptic or ovate-deltoid, 1.5-2 mm. long; 



der, herbaceous, much branched; scales, bracts, bracteoles and fruit globose, 6-7 mm. long and as wide, enclosed by the peri- 



3 outer perianth-segments ovate-cordate, about 0.5 mm. long, anth-mbe. Oct.-Nov. Near seashores; Kyushu (Yaku- 



ciliolate; flowers sessile, in rather loose axillary spikes; inner shima) . Widely distributed in the Tropics. 



2. CRYPTOCARYA R. Br. Shina-kusu-modoki Zoku 



Trees or shrubs; leaves alternate or rarely subopposite, 3-nerved or penninerved; inflorescence a panicle; flowers small, bisexual; 

 perianth-segments 6, nearly equal, the tube nearly ovoid, contracted at apex after anthesis; perfect stamens 9, in 3 series, those 

 of outer 2 series not glanduliferous, introrse, the inner with a gland on each side, extrorse; staminodes ovate; ovary sessile; berry 



entirely enclosed in the perianth-tube, globose or ellipsoidal, the perianth-segments deciduous. ^More than 100 species, in the 



Tropics. 



1. Cryptocarya chinensis (Hance) Hemsl. Beilschmie- minal, 2-3 cm. long; flowers 2-3 mm. long; fruit about 10 



dia chinensis Hance Shina-kusu-modoki. Tree; leaves mm. across, 13-15 mm. long. Kyushu (Hyuga Prov. and 



narrowly elliptic, 7-10 cm. long, 3-5 cm. wide, acuminate, 3- Tanegashima) . ^Formosa and s. China. 



nerved, the petioles 7-12 mm. long; panicles axillary and ter- 



3. CINNAMOMUM Bl. Kusu-no-ki Zoku 



Aromatic trees; leaves evergreen, coriaceous, subopposite or alternate, 3-nerved; inflorescence an axillary or terminal panicle, 

 sometimes a raceme or umbel; flowers bisexual, the perianth-segments 6, equal, the tube short; perfect stamens 9 or fewer, in 3 

 series, the outer 2 series without glands, the anthers introrse, 4-locular, the innermost series with 2 glands on each filament, the 



anthers extrorse; staminodes capitellate and stipitate; ovary sessile; berry with a persistent perianth-tube below. About 100 



species, in tropical Asia, few in Australia. 



lA. Leaves with impressed axillary glands beneath 1. C. camphora 



IB. Leaves without axillary glands beneath. 



2A. Leaves obovate-oblong, 3-6 cm. long, rounded to very obtuse, with pale yellowish silky appressed-hairs beneath. . . 2. C. daphnoides 

 2B. Leaves lanceolate to ovate-orbicular, 6-15 cm. long, acute to obtuse, glabrous or scattered -hairy. 



3A. Inflorescence glabrous; leaves acute 3. C. japonicum 



SB. Inflorescence appressed-pubescent; leaves short-caudate 4. C. sieboldii 



1. Cinnamomum camphora (L.) Sieb. Laurus cam- above while young, densely yellowish silky appressed-tomen- 



phora L. Kusu-no-ki. Glabrous evergreen tree with tose beneath, deep green above, the margin slighdy recurved, 



yellow-brown branches; buds many-scaled; leaves subcoria- the midrib 3-parted from the base, the petioles 5-8 mm. long, 



ceous, ovate or broadly so or elliptic, 6-10 cm. long, 3-6 cm. silky-pubescent; inflorescence densely appressed silky-pubes- 



wide, abrupdy acuminate, lustrous above, often glaucescent cent; perianth-segments 3-3.5 mm. long, appressed-pubescent 



beneath, 3-nerved or subpenninerved, with 2 impressed glands on both sides, broadly ovate-elliptic; fruit ellipsoidal, about 10 



in the lower nerve axils beneath, the petioles 15-25 mm. long; mm. long. Kyushu (s. distr.); common near the sea. 



inflorescence axillary, paniculate, glabrous, pedunculate, Ryukyus. 



shorter than the leaves, the bracts caducous, membranous, lin- 3. Cinnamomum japonicum Sieb. ex Nakai. C. pedun- 



ear, soft-pubescent, the perianth-segments about 1.5 mm. long, culatum Nees, excl. syn. Thunb. Yabu-nikkei. Glabrous 



yellow-green, soft-pubescent inside, elliptic; fruit globose, 7-8 evergreen tree; leaves subcoriaceous, narrowly ovate or oblong, 



mm. across, black. ^May-June. Warmer parts; Honshu 6-12 (-15) cm. long, 2-5 cm. wide, obtuse, glaucous beneath, 



(Kanto Distr. and westw.), Shikoku, Kyushu; widely planted, the midrib 3-parted near base, the petioles 8-18 mm. long; in- 

 Ryukyus, Formosa, and China. florescence shorter than the leaves, glabrous; peduncles promi- 



2. Cinnamomum daphnoides Sieb. & Zucc. C. sericeum nent, the pedicels rather short; perianth-segments about 2.5 



Sieb. ex Miq. Kochi-nikkei. Evergreen tree, the young mm. long, broadly ovate, puberulent inside; fruit ellipsoidal, 



branchlets pale yellowish and densely appressed silky-pubes- 10-12 mm. long, black. June. Honshu (Kanto Distr. and 



cent; leaves coriaceous, obovate to oblong, 3-6 cm. long, 1.2-3 westw.), Shikoku, Kyushu. Korea, China, Ryukyus, and 



cm. wide, rounded at apex, obtuse at base, appressed-pubescent Formosa. 



