LAURACEA. 465 
Staminodes subsessile, 3-angular or very short. Berry ovate, naked 
(perianth wholly deciduous), on thickened fleshy pedicel (nearly of 
Alseodaphne).—Trees; leaves alternate, often crowded at end of 
branches, penniveined ; bud-scales few foliaceous ; inflorescences sub- 
terminal, often few-flowered (India’). 
11. Beilschmiedia Nexs.’—Flowers of Hufelandia or Nesodaphue; 
perianth-leaves 6, subequal deciduous. Germen imperfectly 2-celled, 
l-ovulate. Berry dry, supported on nearly flat persistent base of 
receptacle.—Trees; leaves alternate or subopposite, penniveined 
reticulate; inflorescences sprmging from an axillary bud; bracts 
deciduous’ (Jzdia‘). 
12, Aiouea Avst.'—Flowers elongated; receptacle long obconical 
infundibuliform, usually pubescent inside ; perianth-leaves short, con- 
tinuous with receptacle, finally deciduous with upper part of receptacle 
by circumscission. Stamens 9-12, inserted in throat of receptacle ; 
6 outer perfect ; anthers apiculate; cells 2, introrse lateral or 
extrorse ; 3 inner sterile, opposite outer Lr ae antherless, 
2-glandular at base. Staminodes 3 small (or 0 ?). Germen inserted 
in bottom of, and closely surrounded by, Dede Berry oblong 
naked, supported. on nearly plane persistent base of receptacle and 
thickened long-obconical or clavate pedicel.—Trees or shrubs ; leaves 
alternate coriaceous penniveined or more rarely 3-ribbed; inflores- 
cences usually crowded into lax, . dichotomously branching cymi- 
ferous corymbs; pedicels thin’ (Tropical South America’). 
1 Species about 16. Nuns, Syst., 124 (Persea, 
subsect. Corynopodes); in Wail. Pl. Asiat. 
Rar, ii. 70 (Machilus).—B.., in Rumphia, i. 
162; Mus. Lugd.-Bat., i. 333 (Dehaasia).— 
Mie, Fl. Ind.-Bat., i. 928. —Jacx., Mal, Mise., 
ii. 7, 33 ?. (Laurus). —_Wienr., Teon., t. 1831.— 
Taw., Enum, Pl. Zeyl., 253. 
2 Syst., 192, 197.—EnpL., Gen., n. 2034.— 
Metssn.,.Prodr., 62. 
3 This genus, nearest to Eaatio, and (among 
the Cinnamomee) analogous to Cryptocarya, 
differs from the former chiefly in the structure 
of the germen and fruit. 
4 Species 6,7. Roxs., Hort. Cale., 30 (Lau- 
yus).— Bu, Bijdr., B55 (Laurus), — Zout., 
Verz, 113 (Haasia)—Wat.., Cat., n, 2539 
(etranthera). —Miq., Fl. Tod. -Bat., 1. 919, 
969 (Daphnidium).—Bu., Mus. Lugd.-Bat., i. 
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5 Quian., i. 810, t. 120.—J., Gen:, 80.— 
Nes, Syst., 354, 362,—ENDL., Gen., n. 2050. 
— Mrissn., Prodr, 82, 509, — Douglasia 
Scnzes., Gen. n. 1761. —- Ehrhardia Scor., 
(ex Mzissn., loc. cit.). 
6 This genus, ascribed by duthors to Crypto- 
caryee on account of its greatly elongated con- 
cave receptacle—which is indeed anomalous in 
Cinnamomeea—uust yet be classed in the latter 
group because of its wholly free germen, differ- 
ing from Cinnamomum and the neighbouring 
genera only in its longer obconical receptacle. 
The ripe fruit is altogether that. of Alseodaphne, 
and is not enclosed in the sacciform receptacle. 
7 Species about 7. NEES, in Linnea, xxi. 
512; in Bot., Zeit., xxii., Beibl., 64.—Rem. & 
Scu., Syst., vii. n. 1300,_WaALP., Ann., iii. 
—8il. 
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