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long-lanceolate, acuminate, blnntish or pointed at the top, glabrous or glabrate beneath : 

 veins strong, cosiate and reticulated beneath with a prominulous network ; flowers in short, 

 axillary racemes, strigillose-pubesceut ; calys 6-fid, globose ; anthers roundish, 6 exterior 

 sterile, devoid of valves ; cupule cupuliform, half as long as the ovoid-oblong berry : margin 

 double, exterior spfeading, interior appressed. — Laurus, Sw.l Aydendron microbotryum, 

 Ns. — A middle-sized tree ; leaves 4"- 3" long, 10"'-8"' broad, nsually shining above, pale be- 

 neath: petiole 3"'-4"' long; racemes often little exceeding the petiole j calyx 1™ diam. ; 

 berry 5"'-6"' long. — Hab. Caribbean Islands I, /Sw.; [Guadeloupe !]. 



6. NBCTANDKA, Rottb. 



Calyx 6-partite, rotate : limb deciduous. Fertile stamens 9 : anthers 4-celled, broad, all 

 or exterior subsessile, or with a short filament. Berry supported by a truncate cupule. — 

 Leaves umally alternate, arch-nerved ; flower-fascicles ^»»8CT«Zaie.' 



Sect. 1. EuKEOTANDKA. — AnthtTs roundish : cells arranged in an arch. 



* Leaves shining, reticulated-veiny : network prominulous on both sides. 



'^ 9. W. sanguinea, 'Rottb. Branqhlets purple, paherulous ; leaves chartacebus, lanceo- 

 late-oblong or elhptical-obloug, with a blnntish point, glabrous or glabrescent, shining above : 

 network of veins slightly prominulous on both sides ; panicle spreading, puberulous ; calyx 

 as long as the pedicels ; segments oblong, blunt, pubescent ; anthers equal, sessile, obovate- 

 roundish : 3 interior sterile stamens ckvate ; cupule short, cjathiform, appressed, 5 times 

 shorter than the ovoid or obovate-globose berry. — SI. 1. 166. y. 1. Jdcq. Coll. t. 5./. 2.^ 

 Laurus Borbonia, Sb. Bks., Poit. ! L. martinicensis, Jacq. N. conciima, Ns. l" — A tree, 

 50' high ; leaves 6"-3" long, 2V-1" broad ; calyx 3"'-4"' diam., white, fragrant ; interior 

 fertile stameus biglandnlar on the back; cupule li'" high, turbinate at the base, subdistinet 

 from the pedicel ; berry rounded above, often slightly mucrontdate, 7"'-8"' long, 3"'-4"' 

 diam. — Hab. Bahamas !, Swains. ; Jamaica !, all coll., common in the lowlands ; Antigua !, 

 Wullschl,, Dominica, Imr. ; Trinidad !, Sieb. Tr. 99 ; [Cuba ! and Mexico ! to Brazil I and 

 Peru!]i 



10. IV. exaltata, Or. Branchlets brown, subsericeous ; leaves chartacebus, lanceolate- 

 oblong or elliptical, blnntish, glabrous or bearded beneath iu the inferior vein-axils '. net- 

 work of veins prominulons on both sides ; panicle spreading, subsericeous ; calyx as long as 

 the pedicels : segments ovate-oblong, blunt, subsericeous-pubescent ; anthers equal, roundish : 

 3 interior sterile stamens clavate ; " cupule urceolate, half as long as the ovoid berry." — 

 Laurus, Sw. ! Oreodaphne, Ns. — Nearly allied to the preceding, and, without fruit, only 

 to be distinguished by its appressed, subsericeous down, the brown bark, and smaller flowers. 

 —A high tree ; leaves 3"-4'' long : the vein-axils are bearded in all (except Swartz's) speci- 

 mens ; calyx 2'" diam. — ^Hab. Jamaica !, Sw., Wullschl., in mountain woods of the western 

 districts, Manchester ; Dominica !, Imr. 



11. N. coriacea, Gr. Branchlets purple, glabrous ; leaves leathery, elliptical-oblong, 

 vrith a blnntish point, gjabrous, shining above : network of veins strongly prominulous on 

 both sides ; panicles axiuary, racemiform, cernuous, exceeded by the leaves, pubernlons ; 

 calyx as long as the pedicels : segments oblong, blunt, pubescent chiefly inside : 6 exterior 

 stamens subsessile, roundish,- 3 interior exserted, spathulate, with a biglandular filament : 

 3 interior sterile stamens minute, clavate ; berry . . . .■ — Laurus, Sw. 1 {non Oreodaphne, Ns.). 

 — A tree, 30' high ; leaves 6"-3" long, 2^'-!" broad, larger than in the usual forms of N. 

 sanguinea ; calyx 2'" diam., whitish, fragrant ; 3 interior fertile stamens twice as long as 

 the exterior, its inferior cells extrorse, the superior lateral. — Hab. Jamaica !, Sw., Bancr., 

 in the higher mountains. 



12. W. patens, Or. Branchlets greyish-brown, glabrous; leaves membranaceous, at 

 length chartaceous, ovate-oblong or elliptical-oblong, often repand, with a bluutish point, 

 glabrous, shining above : network of veins slightly prominulous on both sides ; panicles 

 axillary, lax, spreading, puberulous above, usually exceeded by the leaves ; calyx often 

 shorter than the cernuous pedicel : segments ovate, blunt, pubescent chiefly inside ; 6 ex- 

 terior anthers subsessile, roundish : 8 interior spathulate, with a hi^anixisi filament : 

 sterile stamens transformed into glands ; cupule short, scutellate, supported by the length- 



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