LAURACEA. 427 
The receptacle forms a pretty deep cup, on whose edges are inserted 
a perigynous perianth and androceum, and which contains the 
gyneceum in its cavity. The perianth is double: the three outer 
leaves or sepals are free and equal, coloured, and valvate in the bud. 
The three inner leaves, alternate with these, form a regular verticil, 
Cinnamomum zeylanicum, 
Fria, 242. 
Diagram. 
Fia. 243, 
Long. section of flower. 
Fie. 241. 
Flower (8). 
which must be considered a corolla,’ also of valvate preefloration (fig. 
942). The androceum consists of four verticils also trimerous, 
counting as follows from without inwards: first three oppositisepalous 
stamens, each consisting of a free filament flattened at the base, and 
dilated above into a compressed connective which bears on its inner 
face two pairs of cells, one above the other. ach cell opens by a 
valve that rises to set free the pollen’ (figs. 241, 243). Next come 
three stamens similar to these and alternating with them; then 
three more differing from the preceding, in that their anther-cells are 
extrorse or submarginal, while on either side of the base of the 
filament is a large stipitate gland; and fourthly come three sterile 
Meissn., Prodr., n. 10.—Cinnamomum BuRM., 
Zeyl., 62, t. 27.—C. zeylanicum vulgare Hayne, 
Arzn., 12, t. 20.—C. zeylanicum cordifolium 
Hayne, loc. cit., t. 21.— Cassia cinnamomea 
HeeM., Lugd.-Bat,, 129, t. 655, 656.— Cassia 
lignea Hurm., loc. cit—Laurus Cinnamomum 
L., Spee., 528.—L. Cassia Burm., Fl. Ind., 91. 
—L. Malabathrum Watt, Cat, n. 2583 A 
(part.).—Persea Cinnamomum Sprene., Syst., 
ii, 567. 
1 Because they appear simultaneously in the 
bud, not one after another, like the leaves of the 
outer whorl. Here their consistency and colour 
ean decide nothing. Payrr (Organog. Comp., 
471, t. 96) observes this :—“ Their simultaneous 
appearance on the receptacle shows clearly that 
they are petals, not sepals as A. L. pz Jussi1zv 
thought. Apanson, who so clearly recognised 
(Fam, des Pl., ii. 426) the axile nature of the 
rim of the cup that bears the sepals, also de- 
scribes this inner whorl of the floral envelopes as 
a corolla.” 
? The pollen of the true Lauwracee usually 
consists of large spherical grains free from 
pores and folds. 
