434 
have only the 
trorse. 
masses, in the 
Endiandra virens. 
(fae 
Fig. 249. 
Diagram. 
cn 
ey, 
: 
NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
three stamens of the third row; their anthers are ex- 
The outer stamens are found as scales, or little gland-like 
second of these genera. 
In Misanteca, too, these. three stamens are 
alone fertile; but they are monadelphous. The 
outer stamens are sterile and ill-developed, and 
the flowers form capitula. 
The Bornean genus Bihania has nine petal- 
loid sterile stamens, and the three stamens of 
the third row fertile and extrorse ; the anthers 
are said to have four cells instead of two. 
The anthers are also four-celled in Mespilo- 
daphne ; but the whole nine outer stamens are 
fertile, as in Oreodaphne, and the woody sac, varying in its depth 
and in the height to which it surrounds the fruit, has a thick, single 
or double, truncate rim. 
Mespilodaphne may then be considered’ as 
Cryptocarya, with anthers that open by four valves. 
Ocotea fetens. 
Fie. 250. 
Fruit. 
importance in themselves in any other order. 
III. OCOTEA SERIES. 
Ocotea' (fig. 250) has nearly the floral organization 
of Cinnamomum, and is only distinguished therefrom 
by a set of characters that would appear of slight 
But 
these characters, taken together, may be made to 
suffice for the foundation of an artificial series such 
as is especially useful in the study of so homogeneous 
a family as this. The concave receptacle, the perianth 
androceum and gynzceum, are in some species analo- 
gous to the same parts in Cimnamomum. But the 
staminodes (of the fourth whorl) are quite absent in 
certain species, or when not quite absent are reduced to 
little sessile scales. The flowers are sometimes herma- 
phrodite, but are more frequently, nay, nearly always, 
lAurn, Guian., ii. 780.—J., Gen, 80.— 
Ness, Syst, 354, 371 (part.).—ENpr., Gen., 
n. 2054.—Oreodaphne Nezs, in Linnea, viii. 
39; xxi. 515; Syst., 350, 380 (part.).—Enpt., 
Gen, n 2052.—Mutssn., Prodr., ii. 510,— 
Petalanthera Nezs, Syst. 342, 347.—ENDL., 
Gen,, u. 2046,—Teleiandra Negs, in Linnea, 
viii. 46; Syst., 355.—Enpu., Gen., n. 2048.— 
Evonymodaphne Nuxs, Syst., 244, 263.—Enp1., 
Gen., n. 2041.—Leptodaphne Neus, Syst., 354, 
359 (part.).—ENDL., Gen. n. 2049.—Adeno- 
trachelima, Agriodaph 5 Aner en hecae ie Cera- 
mocarpium, Ceramophora Nezs (ex MEtssy., 
loc, cit.). 
