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Natural Order , Laurine^:. (Ventenat.) Linncean Classi- 
fication, Enneandria, Monogynia. 
Flowers hermaphrodite. — Perigonium 6-cleft, subcampanu- 
late, the segments spathulate-linear, equal, deciduous, the base 
persistent. Stamina 9, in 3 series, all fertile, filaments short, 
the 3 of the inner series with a pair of roundish large sessile 
glands, near the base of each. Anthers elliptic-ovate and 
similar, all opening on the inner side, 4-celled, the cells equal 
and parallel, with all the valves ascending. Ovarium 1- 
celled, with one ovule. Style short; stigma somewhat de- 
pressed, capitate. Berry 1 seeded 
A sempervirent, small tree of Upper California, with alternate, 
lanceolate, minutely reticulated, pungently aromatic, smooth 
leaves. Flowers small, yellow, smooth, in small terminal 
naked clusters. (Nearly allied to Ocotea of Aublet, but with 
hermaphrodite flowers, similar and uniformly introrse anthers, 
and a deciduous perianth. The leaves are also naked, without 
pennate nerves, and the inflorescence not in panicles. It is also 
nearly allied to Aperiphracta of Nees, but with flowers of a 
very different habit, and, with those genera, belongs to the tribe 
Oreodaphne^.) 
CALIFORNIAN BAY TREE. 
DRIMOPHYLLUM patjcielorum. 
Ocotea salicifolia? Kunth, Synops. vol. 1. p. 458. 
This is a very elegant evergreen tree of Upper Cali- 
fornia, growing round Sta. Barbara, 20 to 25, or 30 
t From Afi/jve, acrid to the. taste, and a leaf. 
