LAURACE. : 473 
Stamens 12, fertile 9, connate into a ring at very base; outer 6 in- 
trorse; inner 3 extrorse, 2-glandular at base; anthers of all with 4 
locelli in two superposed pairs; 3 innermost ligulate staminodes. 
Germen inserted in bottom of receptacle (sometimes sterile?) ; style 
cylindrical, apex stigmatiferous obtuse. Berry supported on clavate 
thickened receptacle.—Trees ; leaves alternate penniveined ; inflores- 
cences axillary lax (Zropical America’). 
34? Symphysodaphne A. Ricu.?— “Flowers hermaphrodite. 
‘Perianth 6-partite, lobes erect, ovate-acute. Stamens 3, fertile 
connate into a tube including pistil and topping perianth, with its 
apex extrorsely antheriferous. Staminodes and glands 0 (?). Germen 
‘ovate, tapering into slender style; stigma obtuse convex. Fruit 
. .. .P—A tree; leaves alternate veined; inflorescences solitary in 
upper axils’’® (Cuba’). 
35. Sassafras Bavy.—Flowers dicecious ; receptacle subconcave 
thin ; perianth-leaves 6, membranous subpetaloid, deciduous above 
base. Stamens 9, subperigynous (in female sterile and glandular at 
apex, with some often wanting), 3-seriate, filaments elongated 
slender ; innermost 3 bearing two lateral stipitate glands at base ; 
anthers fertile, all introrse 4-locellate ; locelli superposed in pairs; 
upper pair smaller. Germen (in male flower wholly wanting) sessile ; 
style slender, more or less bowed; apex capitate subdiscoid stigma- 
tiferous. Berry obovate or subglobose, at base shortly tapering 
supported on subclavate top of pedicel and surrounded by cupuliform 
6-crenate or 6-dentate base of perianth.—Trees; buds perulate; 
leaves alternate tripliveined, entire or lobed deciduous; flowers 
racemose long-pedicellate, bursting out of an involucre of silky scales 
(North America). See p. 435. 
36. Sassafridium Murssn.—‘ Flowers hermaphrodite: perianth 
subcorolline rotate; lobes deciduous. Fertile stamens 9, inserted 
at base of perianth-leaves, all introrse and 4-locellate; innermost 3 
2-glandular. Staminodes 3, interior to stamens, small capitate. 
1 Species 2, 3. GriseB., Fl. Brit. W. Ind., 3 An unpublished description ; characters taken 
i. 282 (Nectandra). from a plate. ; 
2In Ram, Sagr. Fl. Cub., t. 67.—MEIsSN., 4 Species 1. 8. cubensis A. Ricu., loc. cit. 
Prodr., 175, 
