74 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
nerves; filaments as long as or were than an- 
thers, lower cells elliptic 14. C. tinunctum. 
Leaves glaucous beneath, not itbedll in the Sails 
of the nerves; filaments scarcely as long as 
anthers, lower cells circular ws .. 15. C. Parthenoxylon. 
1. CINNAMOMUM GRACILIFLORUM, Gamble in Kew Bull. 218 
(1910). An evergreen tree (?) ; branchlets slender, terete, brown, the 
younger slightly puberulous ; leaf-buds lanceolate, grey-pubescent. 
Leaves chartaceous. opposite or subopposite ; elliptic, elliptic-ovate or 
-lanceolate, the apex with a long (1—2-5 cm.) caudate acumen obtuse 
at tip, base acute or slightly rounded ; both surfaces glabrous, grey 
when dry, the upper shining, the lower dull and glaucescent ; 7—13 
cm. long, 3—6 cm. broad; ribs 3, slightly raised on the upper, more 
so on the lower surface, usually with a small extra pair starting along 
or close to the margin and finally forming a slender looped intramargi- 
nal ring, the midrib produced to the tip of the acumen, the next pair 
curved to the base of the acumen and continued in small loops; side 
nerves outside the pair many joining the sinuses of the intramarginal 
loops ; transverse nervules irregular, arched ; reticulation areolate ; 
petiole slender, black, 5—10 mm. long. Flowers in very slender few- 
flowered axillary or lateral racemes up to 4cm. long ; peduncles capil- 
lary, glabrous ; pedicel scapillary, clavate at tip ; flowers 3—5, glabrous 
without. Perianth-tube campanulate, 1 mm. long, glabrous within ; 
lobes ovate-oblong, grey-pubescent within, 2mm.long. Stamens very 
slender, glabrous except a few scattered bristles and a small tuft at 
base, 2 mm. long ; anthers 4-celled with the upper pair of cells minute, 
or 2-celled only ; those of Ist and 2nd rows with small ovate anthers ; 
those of 3rd row similar and with a pair of reniform or oblong gla- 
brous sessile glands towards the top of the fllament ; staminodes of 4th 
row cordate acute. Ovary ovoid with a tooth near the top, glabrous ; 
style slender ; stigma small, capitate. Fruit an ovoid drupe 10 mm. 
long and about 8mm. in diameter seated on a glabrous cupule 
formed of the enlarged perianth-tube bordered by the semi-deciduous 
lobes, the cupule about 6 mm. in diameter ; pedicel also obconically 
thickened ; pericarp yellowish, shining, crustaceous. 
Perak: at Gunong Ijuk, Scortechiné 1228!; in upper Perak, 
Wray 3664!. 
Thisspeciesresembles in leaf a small-sized var. of C. rhyncophyllum; but the 
flowers are completely different. Itseems to come near to C. Burmanni, BL; 
but the leaves of that species are thicker and have not the long caudate 
