Camphora.] laurine^. 291 



\ in., lengthening to 1 in. when in fruit. Perianth about 1 line long, hairy 

 inside at the base. Staminodia hairy. — Sassafras Farthenoxylon, Nees, Syst. 

 Laur. 491. Parthenoxylon porrectum and P. Pseudosassafras, Blume, Mus. 

 Bot. i. 323. PJuebe latifolia, Champ, in Kew Journ. Bot. v. 197. 



In the Happy Valley woods. Champion aud others : also iQ the Indian Archipelago. The 

 3 inner fertile stamens appear to me always to have their anthers opening outwards, as in 

 the allied genera, not inwai;ds, as stated by Nees. 



3. MACHILXJS, Eumph. 



Characters of Oinnamomum and Campkora, except that the perianth-seg- 

 ments persist entirely around or under the berry without any enlargement or 

 thickening of the pedicel, and that the glands of the inner fertile stamens are 

 decidedly stipitate, one on each side of the base of the filament. — Trees, with 

 alternate pinnately veined leaves. Panicles terminal or becoming lateral by 

 the elongation of the shoot. Outer segments of the perianth usually equd. 

 to or longer than the inner ones. 

 A small tropical Asiatic genus. 



Leaves and branches glabrous. Pauicles loose, pedunculate at the base of 



the young shoots 1. M. rimosa. 



Leaves apd branches softly hairy. Panicles dense, sessile, and terminal . 3. M. velviina. 



1. M. rimosa, Blume ; Mus. Bot. i. 330? A tree, glabrous, except the 

 sUky-hairy scales of the leaf-buds. Leaves from oboyate-oblpng to oblong- 

 lanceolate, shortly acuminate, 3 to 4 in. long, narrowed at the base into a pe- 

 tiole of ^ to 1 in., more or less glaucous underneath. Panicles loosely oblong 

 or pyramidal, longer than the leaves. Pedicels about 8 lines. Perianth-seg- 

 ments 3 lines long when fuUy open, narrow-oblong, slightly hoary. Stamens 

 about as long, on slender filaments. Stigma scarcely dilated. Berries glo- 

 bular. — M. Tkimbergii, Benth. in Kew Jbiim. Bot. v. 198, but probably not 

 of Sieb. and Zucc. 



Hongkong, Champion, . Wright, also in Samtong Island, Wright. This is very near the 

 common Indian M. odoratissima, but has larger and looser panicles and larger flowers, and 

 agrees very well with Blume's character of the Javanese M. rimosa, but I have no specimens 

 to compare. I had formerly referred it to the Japanese M. Thunbergii, but some specimens 

 of WUford's from that country, which are probably the true plant, differ from ours in the 

 shape of the leaves as well as in the perianth. 



3. M. velutma^ Champ, in Kew Journ. Bot. v. 198. Branches, under 

 side of the leaves, and inflorescence clothed with a soft yellowish velvety 

 pubescence. Leaves eUiptical-oblong, obtusely acuminate, 3 to 5 in. long, 

 narrowed into a petiole of 4 to 9 lines, glabrous and shining above. Leaf-buds 

 softly haiiy. Panicles contracted into a dense sessile terminal corymb. Peri- 

 anth velvety, about 3 lines long, persisting round the globular berry. 



At the Buddhist Temple, on Victoria Peak, Mount Parker, etc., Champion, also Wright. 

 Not known out of the island. It is widely removed from Aciinoda/phne angustifolia, to 

 which Seemann has, by some mistake, referred it. 



4. ALSEODAPHNB, Nees. 



Characters of Cmnafnomtm and Gamphora, except that the perianth falls 

 off entirely ; the beny resting on the unchanged or slightly thickened summit 



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