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LAURACEAE. 



Key to genera. 



1. Tree or shrub ... 

 Leafless parasite 



2. Flowers in close fascicles or umbels ... 

 Flowers separate in loose inflorescences 



3. Anthers 2-celled 

 Anthers 4-celled 



4. Leaves 3-nerved 

 Leaves penninerved 



5. Fruit completely enclosed in the 



perianth tube ; anthers 2-celled . . . 



Fruit free or nearly so, anthers 4-ceUed 



G. Anthers 2-ceIled ; perianth segments 



deciduous from the oval fruit, or 



perianth tube enclosing the fruit ... 

 Anthers 4-celled ; perianth segments 



deciduous from the globose fruit or 



reflexed, persistent 



7. Perianth deciduous 

 Perianth enveloping the fruit ... 



8. Perianth partly deciduous, leaving a 



cup or disc ... 

 Perianth persistent, reflexed or entirely 

 deciduous ... 



7. Cassytha. 



3. 



4. 

 6. Lindera. 

 5. Lit sea. 



5. 



6. 



1. Cryptocarya. 

 3. Cinaamomum. 



8. 



2. Beilschmeidia. 

 1. Cryptocarya. 



3. Cinnamomum. 



4. Muchilus. 



1. -CRYPTOCARYA. 



Key to species. 



Leaves 3-nerved 

 Leaves penninerved 



1. chinensis. 



2. concinna. 



1. C. 



2. C. 



chinensis, Hemsl. ; Beilschmeidia chinensis, Hance in Journ. 



Bot. 1882, 79. Mountain east of Wongneichong, Mt. 



Parker and on hiU above Taitam reservoir, Hongkong ; 



Maonshan, Hongkong New Territory ; Lienchow Eiver. 



Fl. greenish, ]\Iay. 

 concinna, Hance 1. c. 79. Happy Valley woods, and Mt. 



Gough, Hongkong; Lienchow River. Fl. greenish, aVugust. 



2.— BEILSCHMEIDIA. 

 Key to species. 

 Buds and inflorescence glabrous ; fruit 



inflorescence silky ; fruit 



I inch 

 Buds and 

 ^ inch 



1. Fordii. 



2. fagifolia. 



B. Fordii, Dunn in Journ. Bot. 1907, 404. In the Happy 



Valley woods, Hongkong. Fl. greenish, August. 

 B. fagifolia, Nees ■ Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 122. Between 



Tytam and Stanley, 

 greenish, November. 



Victoria Peak, 



Hong'kone. 



Fl. 



