470 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
25. Mespilodaphne Nrrs.'—Flowers hermaphrodite or dicecious ; 
receptacle infundibuliform subcampanulate or obconical; perianth- 
leaves 6 equal, deciduous or more or less persistent. Stamens 9, 
fertile, 3 innermost extrorse 2-celled; anthers with 2 superposed 
pairs of locelli; sterile stamens 0 or minute. Germen closely in- 
volved in receptacle. Berry included in perianth, more or less con- 
stricted at apex or half-exserted; rim of cupule simple or rarely 
double (emodaphne*)—Trees or shrubs; leaves alternate or sub- 
verticillate, coriaceous penniveined, sometimes reticulate; inflores- 
cences axillary or terminal’ (Zropical America, Mascarene Islands’). 
ITI. OCOTEEA. 
26. Ocotea Ausi.—F lowers dicecious, more rarely hermaphrodite ; 
receptacle shortly infundibuliform or cupuliform ; perianth-leaves 6, 
equal or subequal, deciduous. Fertile stamens 9; outer 6 introrse, 
with 2 pairs of superposed locelli; inner 3 extrorse 2-glandular. 
Staminodes 0, or more rarely small tooth-like subulate or obsolete. 
Germen free, scarcely immersed in receptacle. Berry immersed in 
truncate entire cupuliform receptacle; pedicel thickened slightly or 
not at all—Trees or shrubs; leaves alternate, usually coriaceous, 
penniveined or very rarely pseudo-tripliveined ; flowers cymose, 
arranged in simple or branched axillary or terminal racemes (Zropical 
and subtropical America, Continent and Islands EB. and W. of Tropical 
Africa). See p. 434. 
27. Strychnodaphne Nens.'—Flowers of Ocotea; perianth all 
persistent; berry supported on nearly -flat or slightly concave 
receptacle and surrounded at base by short 6-lobed spreading 
perianth. Other parts of Ocotea.—Trees or shrubs; leaves alternate 
penniveined ; inflorescences axillary or terminal (Zropical America’). 
1 Syst., 192, 235.—ENDL., Gen. n. 2039,— 
Mutssy., Prodr., 96, 510. 
2 Mrissn., Prodr., 109. 
3 This genus comes very near Ocotea, 
4 Species about 50. NxEs, in Linnea, viii. 
45. — Sprena., Syst, ii. 496 (Myginda). — 
H. B. K., Nov. Gen. et Spec., vii. 192, t. 645 
(Cryptocarya).—Bu., Mus. Lugd.-Bat., i. 338 
(Agathophyllum, ex part.)—Lamx., Dict., iii. 
447; Ill, t. 331, fig. 2 (Lawrus).—GaisEs., 
Pl. Wright., 188 (Nectandra).—Mutssn., in 
Mart. Fl. Bras., Laurac., 186, t. 67~75. 
® Progr., 17; in Linnea, viii, 39.——MEIssn., 
Prodr., 142. 
Species 3 or 4, Pork., Dict., Suppl, iii. 
323 (Laurus).—Nzxs, Syst. 354, 471 (part., 
Ocotea); in Linnea, xxi. 524,.—Sw., Fl. Ind. 
Oce., ii. 721 (Laurus).—MeEtssn., in Mart. Fl. 
Bras., Laurac., 244, t. 86, 
