86 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
to 10 mm. broad when open, in slender few-flowered axillary or 
lateral glabrous panicles up to 8 cm. long; peduncles slender or 
filiform ; branches sub-opposite, subumbellate ; pedicels slender, 5 mm- 
long. Perianth-tube funnel-shaped, short, glabrous within; lobes 
ovate-oblong, obtuse, up to 2 mm. long, white-villous within, deciduous 
after flowering. Stamens very small ; the lower anther cells elliptic, 
the upper usually circular ; those of the Ist and 2nd rows ‘75—1-25 
mm. long, the anthers obtuse, the filaments slender, villous; those of 
the 3rd row similar and with a pair of reniform subsessile glands 
close to the base outside the filaments ; staminodes of the 4th row 
cuneiform, stipitate. Ovary ovoid; style rather thick, curved ; stig- 
ma peltate. Fruit an ovate berry the size of a pea, seated on a 
funnel-shaped cupule (Meissn.). Kurz For. Fl. II. 289 ; Hook. f. FI. 
Br. Ind. V. 135. Camphora inuncta, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. IIT. 
32 and Syst. Laur. 89; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 1.1. 905. Tetranthera cam- 
phoracea, Wall. M.S. 
Matacca (7): Griffith K.D. 4256!; Maingay K.D. 1244!.—Dts- 
TRI8. Burma (Tavoy). 
15, CiInNAMOMUM PARTHENOXYLON, Meissn. in DC. Prodr. 
XV. i. 26 (1864). A very large tree with straight trunk reaching 30 
to 45 m. in height and a diameter of 1 m. and perhaps more; 
branches spreading; branchlets moderately thick, nearly black when 
dry, the uppermost angular, glabrous: leaf-buds lanceolate, inflores- 
cence buds with large silky-pubescent deciduous scales. Leaves very 
variable in shape and texture, young ones thin, red when first open, 
the old ones subcoriaceous, alternate; elliptic or elliptic- ovate or 
-obovate, sometimes lanceolate, acute or acuminate at apex, acute 
or rounded and usually unequal at base ; both surfaces glabrous, the 
upper dull or slightly shining, the lower more or less glaucous ; 
6—12 cm. long, 3—6 cm. broad : midrib slender, not prominent ; main 
nerves very irregular, about 6 to 8 pairs, not prominent, curving 
upwards to joinin rather obscure loops near the margin; no glands in 
the nerve axils; reticulation areolate ; petiole slender, 2--3 cm. long, 
usually channelled above. Flowers small, 10 mm. broad when open, 
light yellow, in lax slender axillary or lateral panicles up to 8 cm. 
long; peduncles and pedicels filiform, glabrous or the latter 
puberulous. Perianth-tube funnel-shaped, glabrous within; lobes 
elliptic-oblong, obtuse, nearly glabrous without, villous within, 
2—2°5 mm. long, deciduous after flowering. Stamens minute, the 
anthers with nearly circular pores; those of the Ist and 2nd rows 
