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top: leaves stiffish-coriaceous, ovate, oval or oblong-elliptic, 

 obtuse, tri- and triplinerved, beneath or on both sides densely 

 and prominently reticulated, afterwards smooth, shining and 

 glabrous above, beneath glaucous whitish, minutely and sparingly 

 puberulous: panicles corymbosely branched above the middle, 

 branches short, 3-cleft, braiichlets 3-flowered: flowers subsessile, 

 hoary or somewhat brownish, slightly tomentose. 



Peninsula. Nejlgherries. Probably identical with O. Zey- 

 lanioum. 



(2) C. OBTUsiFOLirM. (JVees.) 



Ident. Nees in Wall. pi. As. rar. II. p. 73. — Dec. 1. e. p. 12. 

 Syn. Laurus obtusifolia, Rocch. H. B. 



Spec. Chab. Large tree: leaves stiffly coriaceous, oval or 

 ovate-oblong, acuminated, rounded or attenuated at the base, 

 3- or triplinerved, glabrous, shining above, somewhat deeply or 

 obsoletely reticulated, beneath glaucous and densely and promi- 

 nently reticulated : panicle terminal, hoary-tomentose, branches 

 cymosely 2 — 7-cleft, 7— 12-flowered. 



Bengal. Silhet. Assam. 



(3) C. Zetlaniottm. (JBreyn.) 



a. var. COMMUNE. 



Ident. Dec. 1. c. p. 13. 



Syn. Laurus Cinnamomum, Idnn. — L. cassia, £ot. Mag. — C. 

 Zeylanieum, Blume. — Persea Cinnamomum, Spreng. 



Engrav. Burm. Zeyl. t. 27.— Bot. Mag. t. 1686.— "Wight's 

 Icon. t. 123. 



Spec. Chab. Tree : leaves coriaceous, ovate or ovate-oblong 

 from a very shortly narrowed or rounded base, obtuse or acutish, 

 short-acuminated, 3 — 5-nerved : panicle terminal, large, somewhat 

 silky hoary, pedicels equalling the • flowers : capsule truncated, 

 6-cleft. 



Peninsula. 



b. var. iNODOBTJM. — Dec. 1. c. 



Bark inodorous or slightly aromatic: leaves ovate or ovate- 

 oblong, often equalling the panicle. 

 Peninsula. Neilgherries. 



c. var. MiOEOPHYiiLUM. — Dec. 1. c. p. 14. — Bufm. thes. Zeyl. 

 p. 63.— Wight's Icon. 1. 141 ? 



Leaves small, ovate or lanceolate-oblong, from a rounded or 

 acute base, obtuse, 3-nerved, with a pleasant odour of cin- 

 namon. 



Neilgherries. 



