MACHILUS MACRANTHA. (Nat. order Laurinese.) 



MACHILUS. Ruinph.— GEN. CHAR. The same as Cinnamomurn (vide PI. cclxii) except that the perianth segments persist entirely 

 arouudor under the fruit or berry without any enlargement or thickening of the pedicel, and that the glands of the inner fertile stamens are decidedly 

 stipitate, one on each side of the base of the filament. Trees, with alternate leaves, veins pinnate, panicles terminal or becoming lateral by the elongation 

 Of the shoot. 



MACHILUS MACRANTHA. (Nees.) A very large tree, leaves membranaceous when young but coriaceous in age, 

 ovate or oblong to elliptic obtuse or acute at the apex glaucous beneath and finely reticulated, up to 8 inches long and 3 broad, 

 petioles 1-lf inches long channelled on the upper side, panicles terminal hoary with a minute whitish pubescence about as long as the 

 leaves and rather compact, or longer than the leaves and laxly branched, bracts lanceolate 3 lines long very early deciduous, branchlets 

 cymose, flowers yellow hoary outside 4-6 lines in diameter, the calyx segments equal or sub-equal or the outer 3 smaller than the inner, 

 berry depresso-globose 4-7 lines in diameter. Nees in Wall. PI. rar. 2 p. 70, 3 p. 31 ; — DC. Prod, xv. p- 40. M. macrantha and 

 glaucescens, Wight's Icones plates 1824-5. 



This is a very handsome tree when in full blossom ; it is most abundant in allow western moist forests from Canara down to Travancore 

 and Tinnevelly, and in Mysore and Coorg {very abundant), and from elevations of about 1000 feet up to nearly 6000/ it is also found in the 

 Bombay ghats and in Ceylon. On the Nilgiris (Coonoor) it is called KromoX by the Burghers, on the Anamallays Iruli by the Kaders, iiifS. 

 Canara KoormA, and in Ceylon Vllalu ; the timber is often usedfw building purposes ; it is light and even grained, and would answer as a sub- 

 slilutefor deal; the tree flowers in March and April. 



Analysis- 



1. A bud. 



2. A flower, 3 outer segments of the perianth smaller than the 3 inner. 



3. Perianth or calyx opened showing the arrangement of the 9 fertile stamens, the 6 glands and 3 staminodes (exactly the same 



as in Cinnamomum,) 



4. One of the outer row of stamens, inside view, anthers introrse 4-celled. 



5. One of the inner row of stamens with its 2 stipitate glands, inside view, anthers extrorse 4-celled. 



6. Staminodes, front and back view- 



7. Ovary, style and stigma. 



8. Ovary cut vertically, 1 pendulous ovule. 



9. Ripe fruit showiug the persistent unaltered perianth segments below it, no enlargement of the pedicel. 



10. Magnified portion of inflorescence. 



11. A leaf natural size, showing the penniveined venation (very different to that of Cinnamomum.) — (All drawn from living 



specimens.) 



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