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almost acuminate, penninerved, occasionally spuriously triplinerved, 
glossy, one-coloured, beneath or on both sides somewhat promi- 
nently net-veined ; panicles short, few-flowered, axillary and termi- 
nal, about 14 in. long; flowers unknown ; perianth-cup funnel- 
shaped, about a line in diameter ; berry ovate, the size of a pea.— 
(After Meissner.) 
Has.—South Tenasserim. 
Possibly referable to C. cecidodaphne, Meissn. 
ie 3S parthenoxylon, Meissn.—A leaf-shedding (?) large tree, 
all parts glabrous ; leaves from ovate to elliptically oblong, usually 
rounded at the base, on a slender petiole 3-1 in. long, shortly acu- 
minate, thin-coriaceous, glabrous, penninerved and net-veined, 3-4 
in. long, somewhat glaucous beneath; flowers minute, pale yellow, 
on slender nearly 2 lin. long pedicels, forming a long-peduncled, 
slender, glabrous, cymose panicle in the axils of the leaves ; perianth 
slightly pubescent, the segments about 4 lin. long, oblong and 
rather blunt ; berry globular, the size of a small pea, smooth, suc- 
culent, dark purple, the perianth-cup little enlarged and flat, with 
entire margins. 
Hasz.—South Tenasserim. 
ReMarxKs.—This is the so-called Martaban camphor-wood. 
C. caudatum, NE.—An evergreen tree, all parts glabrous ; 
leaves ovate to elliptically ovate, often somewhat oblique, tapering 
at the base, on a slender petiole 3-4 lin. long, more or less caudate- 
acuminate, 2-3 in. long, thin-coriaceous or chartaceous, strongly 
trplinerved, glabrous, turning fuscescent in drying, the veination 
obsolete ; flowers minute, on filiform, 3-4 lin. long, tawny-pubescent 
pedicels solitary or clustered in the axils of the leaves; perianth 3 
lin. long, tawn -pubescent ; drupes obovoid-oblong, 4-1 in. long, 
glossy, black, the perianth-tube and pedicel very fleshy, thickened 
and enlarged, glabrous, up to an inch long, the segments short, rigid, 
persistent. 
Hap.—Ava, Kakhyen hills—Fl. March. 
PHOEBE, NE. 
Flowers almost as in Cinnamomum, the receptacle shortly funnel- 
shaped, persistent, along with the often indurated perianth support- 
ing the fruit. Berry seated on a more or less thickened pedicel. 
other respects agreeing with Cinnamomum.—Trees or shrubs, 
‘ae alternating or almost whorled penninerved or triplinerved 
ves. Flowers in axillary or terminal cymose racemes. 
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