LAUKINE^. 283 



stamens minute, subcylindiical, eglandular ; cupule . . . . — A large tree ; leaves 8"-5" long, 

 S"-li" broad, pale rusty-green, opaque or somewhat sWning ; panicles small : branches 

 distant, pyramidal: pedicels 14'" long; calyx 4'" diam. : segments reflexed-spreading ; 

 stamens 1'" exserted from the calyx-tube ; 6 exterior anthers ovate-oblong : ceHs suprabasilar, 

 superior pair distant from their bluntish top ; 3 interior anthers oblong : cells placed above 

 their 2 large, globose, dorsal-basilar glands, inferior pair extrorse, superior lateral, below 

 their rounded summit i sterile stamens as long as the glands ; ovary globose, tapering into 

 the cylindrical style: stigma minute. — Hab. Jamaica!, Pd., if'iVaS,^^., in the western 

 and northern forests, in the interior districts of Westmoreland and S. Anns. 



7. STKYCHNODAPHNE, Ns. (1833.) 



Flowers dioecious. Cal>/x 6-partite, wholly persistent. Fertile stamens 9 : anthers 4- 

 celled : filaments distinct. Berry supported by the expanded or reflexed calyx. — Trees ; 

 leaves alternate, archnermd ; flower-fascicles paniculate. 



This genus was afterwards named Ocotea by Nees : Ocotea guianensis, Aubl., however, 

 being an Oreodajihne, that name would, if restored, belong to the latter genus, but is better 

 altogether suppressed, as Aublet obscured itby a misplaced fruit, and later authors used this 

 name for various unallied Laurinea. 



18. S. floribunda, Gr. Branchlets glabrous ; leaves chartaceous, elliptical-lanceolate 

 or elliptical, bluntish, glabrous, polished above, retibnlated-veiny beneath; flowers cernuous,- 

 in compound racemes (often monstrous) ; stigma peltate ; berry globose, supported by the 

 reflexed calyx. — Laurus, Sw. I Nectandra, Ns. — A. tree or shrub ; leaves dark-green, 3"-6" 

 long, f"-2'' broad, usually tapering at both ends ; paiiicles equalling the leaves, slightly 

 puberulous : pedicels as long as the flower ; $ -calyx 3'" diam., with all the stamens deve- 

 lop«d,-but devoid of anther-valves: segments broadly ovate, expanded; anthers 9, globose, 

 4-celled, 4-p'orose, as long as the filaments : interior filaments with 2 large, globose, basilar 

 glands : sterile stamens wa,dting ; ovary as long as the oblique style : stigma large ; monstrous 

 flowers larger, connivent : all stamens transformed into senaline scide S; berry 3'" diam. . 

 calyx spreading from its base, enlarged : reflexed lobes !"■ diam., rounded, as long as the 

 tube. — Hab. Jamaica !, Sw., Pd., AL, March, in woods, S. Anns, Manchester. 



8. OKEODAPHNE, Ns. emend. 

 (Ocotea, Aubl.) 



Flowers usually dioecious : stamens in ? , pistil in S less developed. Calyx 6-fid : tube 

 tiffbinate : limb deciduous. Fertile stamens 9 : anthers 4-celled : cells one above the other 

 in paii-s : filaments distinct. Berry supported by a truncate cupule. — ^Leaves alternate, 

 archnerved; flower-fascicles paniculate. 



19. O. Iieucoxjrlon, 6r. Glabrous, pow.dery-puberulons towards the summit ; leaves 

 chartaceous, oblong or elliptical, usually acuminate, bluntish, polished (or slightly reticulated) 

 above, with the primary veins slightly Costate, and a lax, delicate network beneath ; panicles 

 powdery-puberulous, glabrescent, subcontracted, or spreading at the base: pedicels as long 

 as the flower, spreading ; calyx-lobes ovate or oblong, blunt ; anthers quadrate : filaments 

 short, 3 interior biglandnlar : sterile stamens in (? ; stigma large ; cupule scutellate, 

 slightly concave, one-fifth as long as the ovoid-globose, mucronate berry, distinct from the 

 warty, thickened pedicel. — Laurus, Sw. ! Phoebe membranacea, Maqf. I (non Ns.). — A 

 middle-sized tree : branchlets angular, dark- at length pale-colbnred ; leaves variable, usually 

 opaque, 10"-3" long, 3"-l J" broad ; panicles exceeded by the leaves, black in drying ; 

 flowers " yellow, fragrant ;" calyx 2'" diam. ; berry 5'" long, 4'" broad, black and somewhat 

 siihing in drying : cupule 1'" high, 2'" diam. : warts of the pedicel grey. — Hab. Jamaica \, 

 Sw., AL, Bancr., Wils., March, in mountain woods; [Cuba!, Portorico, Guiana !, Brazil], 



20. O. p'arviflora, Ns. (non Gr. PI. Carib.). Glabrous ; leaves chartaceous, oblong, 

 bluntish, polished above, with the primary veins costate, and a lax, delicate network beneath ; 

 paniclss powdery-glabrescent, spreading: pedicels longer thanthe flower, spreading ; calyx- 

 lobes roundish ; anthers quadrate-oblong : filaments short, 3 interior biglandnlar : sterile 

 stamens in (J ; stigma .minutely peltate ; cupule scutellate, slightly concave, tapering 

 into the clavate, rugulose pedicel : warts none : berry . . . . — Allied to the preceding, but 



