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acumen. The nearest relation, however, is C. pauctflorum, Nees, from which it 
differs in the thinner more oblong leaves and the side ribs reaching to the very 
base of the acumen. 
2. CINNAMOMUM ZEYLANICUM, Blume Bijdr. 568 (1825). A 
moderate-sized evergreen tree with rather thick aromatic bark, smooth 
when young ; branchlets terete, dark brown, the uppermost subquad- 
rangular ; leaf-buds ovoid, finely silky. Zeaves coriaceous, opposite or 
subopposite ; ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute or obtusely acuminate 
at apex, acute or rounded at base; both surfaces glabrous ; 8—16cm. 
long, 4—8 cm. broad; midrib stout, slightly raised above, more so 
beneath ; side ribs 1 orsometimes 2 pairs, when 2 pairs the outer pair 
slender short close to the margin, the main pair strong at first along- 
side the midrib for 5—10 mm. then curved to about three-fourths 
of the length of the leaf when they disappear in faint loops; trans- 
verse nervules irrecular, rather distant, arched, hardly visible ; 
reticulation under the lens minutely areolate: petiole broad, dark, 
1—2 cm. long. flowers numerous, in silky-pubescent lax axillary 
panicles up to 17 cm. long ; peduncles slender, quadrangular, usually 
glabrous ; branches spreading, trichotomous, ending in 3-flowered 
dichasia; pedicels slender, grey-puberulous; bracts ovate acute, 
caducous ; buds subglobose, grey-puberulous. Perianih-tube short, 
continuing the pedicel, 1—2 mm. Jong, glabrous within; lobes 
oblong or ovoid-oblong, the outer rather longer and sometimes 
spathulate 3—5 mm. long, densely silky within. Stamens slender, 
those of Ist and 2nd rows spathulate, 2—3 mm. long, the 
filaments slightly pubescent, the anther-cells large slightly overlap- 
ping, those of 3rd row with small anthers and a pair of large reniform 
or oblong glabrous sessile glands about half-way up the slightly 
puberulous filaments ; staminodes of 4th row slender, heads small, 
cordate-sagittate, filaments nearly glabrous, 1—2 mm. long. Ovary 
ovoid, glabrous; style slender; stigma large, peltate. Fruit an 
oblong or ovoid-oblong berry 15—17 mm. long, 7—8 mm. in diameter 
seated on and partly immersed in the cupular enlarged perianth and its 
persistent lobes, the cupule 7—8 mm. in diam., often strongly ribbed ; 
pericarp smooth, brown and shining whendry, purple when fresh. 
Nees Syst. Laur. 45 and in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. II. 74 and III. 32; 
Meissn. in DC. Prodr. XV.i. 13; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I. i, 898; Wight 
Ie. tt. 123, 129, 184; Wall. Cat. 2573; Kurz For. Fl. II. 287 ; Hook. 
f. Fl. Br. Ind. V. 131; Trimen Fl. Ceyl. IIT. 440 ; Cooke Bomb. FI. II. 
535; Prain Beng. Plants 898 ; Brandis Ind. Trees 533; Baillon Hist. 
des Pl. IT. 429. t. 240; Engl. & Prantl Naturl. Pflanzenfam. ITI. 1. 
