perfect, stalked, capitate, glanduliform, sometimes imperfect 

 or obsoletely sessile, scali- or dentiform, sometimes deficient : 

 glands globose or ovoid or compressed, stalked or sessile^ 

 affixed to the third row of stamens, sometimes free between 

 the stamens : pistils 2 — 3, connate into 1 : ovary free, 

 1-celled, 1-ovuled : style filiform : stigma obtuse or discoid, 

 often obsoletely 2 — 3-lobed: fruit fieshy, globose or ellip- 

 soid, naked : seed exalbuminous. — Trees or shrubs, unarmed, 

 very rarely climbing : leaves scattered, or seldom opposite, or 

 subverticilled by intervals, exstipulate, simple, undivided or 

 very rarely lobed, always quite entire : cymes racemose or 

 panicled, often dichotomous, and with the shortened pedicels 

 forming a capitulum or false umbel, supported at the base by 

 a bract, or more rarely a 4 — 6-leaved involucre : flowers 

 usually small, white, yellow, or greenish, usually fragrant : 

 bark aromatic : leafy parts more or less dotted with bladders 

 filled with ethereal oil. 



GENUS I. OINNAMOMUM. 

 Enneandria llonogynia. Sex: Syst : 



Deriv. Prom the Arabic word Kinamon. 



GrBir. Ohae. Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamous, panicled, 

 naked : calyx funnel-shaped, 6-cleft, coriaceous, lobes breaking 

 transversely at or near the base and deciduous from a cup-shaped 

 tube, seldom persistent : stamens perfect, outer 6 eglandulose, 

 inner 3 furnished above the base with 2 stalked or sessile 

 glands : anthers with a slender filament of nearly equal length, 

 ovate or oblong, superposedly 4-celled, upper cells smaller : 

 staminodes 3, ovate or oblong, stalk short, naked or rarely 

 bearing 2 glands : style equalling the ovary, slender : stigma 

 obtuse or discoid, sometimes slightly 3-toothed: berry supported 

 by the thickened base of the calyx. — ^Evergreen trees or shrubs : 

 leaves opposite or nearly so, or here and there alternate, 8- or 

 3-fold-nerved : panicles axillary, usually collected into a terminal 

 corymb, the branches cymosely 3 — many -flowered : flowers white or 

 yellow, bisexual. 



(1) C. WiGHTii. {Meissn.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. XV. s. 1. p. 11. 



Spec. Chae. Small tree : branchlets acutely tetragonal at the 



