76 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
113, t. 73. Laurus Cinnamomum, Linn. Sp. Pl. 369; Roxb. FI. 
Ind. 11. 295. 
Matacca: Griffith K.D. 4246—1!; Chin Singh’s Plantation 
(cult), Maingay K.D. 4241!. Stneaporz: Ridley 8099 (cult.) !, garden 
jungle 12595!; Hullett 7!; Cantley 148!, 207!. The Cinnamon 
tree.—Distris. South India and Ceylon, elsewhere cultivated 
only. 
This species does not seem to be indigenous in the Malay Peninsula, but 
it has been cultivated and seems to have run wild. I have quite failed to 
identify the available specimens with the published varieties. 
3. CINNAMOMUM INERS, Reinw. in Blume Bijdr. 570 (1825). A 
tree, reaching 15 to 20 m. in height and up to 40 cm. in diam. of stem ; 
branchlets terete, dark grey-brown, prominently lenticellate, upper- 
most appressed-puberulous; leai-buds conical, grey-silky, 5 mm. 
long, with small scales ; innovations grey-pubescent. Leaves charia- 
ceous to coriaceous, opposite or alternate, very variable in size and 
often sphacelate at apex; elliptic or elliptic-oblong or -lanceolate, 
sometimes linear-lanceolate or linear-oblong, obtuse or acute at apex, 
rounded or acute at base, 3-ribbed; both surfaces glabrous when old, 
slightly puberulous beneath when young, when very young usually 
ashy-grey-pubescent ; upper surface shining, Jower dull and pale or 
almost glaucous ; margins usually reflexed, cartilaginous ; 6-—-25 cm. 
long (sometimes to 40 cm. in young trees and coppice shoots), 2 to 12 
em. broad; midrib stout, raised, straight to the apex, side ribs from 
the base or leaving the midrib a little above it, uniformly curved to 
meet it and each other again at the apex; transverse nervules between 
the mid and side ribs subparallel, horizontal or slightly arched; 
nerves between the side ribs and margin looped; reticulation under 
the lens minutely areolate, in old large leaves scarcely seen; petiole 
1—2 cm. long, stout, sometimes twisted. Flowers yellowish in 
grey-silky pedunculate subterminal or axillary spreading panicles 
of variable length from 5 to 25 cm.; branches lax, dichotomous, 
ending in 3- or 7-flowered dichasia ; bracts and bracteoles very small, 
caducous; pedicels 3—6 mm. long; buds globose. Perianth-tube 
funnel-shaped, 1:5 to 2 mm. long, glabrous within; lobes ovate, 
acute, 2°5—3°5mm. long, subequal, sericeous within as without, prom- 
inently nerved and dotted, spreading during flowering, then closing 
up vertically. Stamens 2 to 25 mm. long, those of the Ist and 2nd 
rows with ovate anthers with large slightly overlapping cells and 
slightly villous filaments and connective ; those of the 3rd row with 
