21 



Lauraccw-Persoidece-Cinnamomew Pax in Engler & Prantl, Nat. 

 Pflanzenfam. Ill AM. 2, 112 (1889). 



Arbores vel ai-boreaj. Gemmaj perulatse. Folia alterna vel opposita 

 trinervia vel pemiinervia. Inflorescentise cymoso-pauiculatae in axillis 

 foliorum ramoruin hornotinorum axillares. Plores polygamo-monoeici. 

 Calyx 6-lobatus, lobis aliis supra basin deciduis, aliis ex eupulo deciduis 

 et in fructu inerassatus et basin fructns patellare clausus. Stamina si 

 9 triserialia et si 12 quadriserialia, exteriora cum antheris introrsis et 

 filamentis eglandulosis, 3 interiora cum antheris laterali-extrorsis et 

 filamentis biglandulatis, 3 intima sterilia staminodia formant. 



Genus 1, Cinnamomum hue ducendum est. 



Gn. 1. Cinnamomum [ (Theophratus) Dioscorides, Med. Mat. liber 



I, fol. 14 dextr. (1518) ; Brunfels, Nov. Herb. II 100 & 131 (1536) ; 

 Matthioli, Medic. Sen. Comm. 31 (1554) ; Gerarde, Hist. PI. 1349 

 (1597) ; Sarrasin in Dioscorides, Opera 12 (1598) ; Ray, Hist. II, 1559 

 (1688) ; Burmann, Thes. Zeyl. 62 t. 27-28 (1737) ; Ludwig, Deffin. Gen. 

 PI. ed. 2, 35 (1747)] ; Boehmer, Deffin. Gen. PI. 63 (1760) ; Blackwell, 

 Coll. Stirp. IV, PI. 354(1760) ; Nees & Ebelmaire, Handb. II 420(1831) ; 

 Blume, Bijdr. 11 de stuk 568 (1825) ; Nees in Wallich, PI. Asiat. Ear. 



II, 73 (1832), Annexa 9 (1833), Syst. Laur. 31 (1836) ; Endlicher, Gen. 

 PL I 316 n. 2023 (1836) ; Meissner, Gen. PI. I, 324 (1836) ; Lindlet, 

 PI. Med. 329 (1838) ; Dietrich, Syn. 1331 (1840) ; Spach, Hist. Veg. X 

 474(1841); Meissner in DC, Prodr. XV pars. 1, 4 & 9 (1864), in 

 Martius, PI. Brasil. V pars 1, 142 & 146 (1866) ; Bentham, PI. Austr. 

 V 303 (1870) ; Bentham & Hooker, Gen. PI. Ill, 154 (1880) ; Baillox, 

 Hist. PL III, 468 (1870) ; Pax in Engler & Prantl, Nat, Pfl. Ill Abt. 2. 

 113 (1889) ; Liou, Laurac. 21 (1934). 



Syn. Capliura Ruell, Nat. Stirp. 102 (1537) ; Matthioli, 1. c, 73. 



Cinnamomum Bauhinus, Pinax 408 (1623) ; Blackwell, Cur. 

 Herb. II, PL 354 (1737). 



Camphora [Ruell, Nat. Stirp. 102 in nota sub Caphu ra (1537) ; 

 Bauhinus, I.e. 500; Morison, Hist, Oxon. Ill, 614 (1699): 

 Boerhaave, Ind. PL II 261 (1720) ; Blackwell, 1. c. PL 347 



