UMBELLULABIA, 
(Nees ab Esenb.) 
Natural Order , Laurine^e. Linnxan Classification , Enne- 
ANDRIA, MONOGYNIA. 
Flowers hermaphrodite. — The perianth deeply 6-parted and 
shortly companulate, the segments equal and deciduous. Sta- 
mina 12, the 9 exterior fertile, interior sterile, the 3 fertile 
innermost ones each with a pair of large glands covering the 
back of the filament. Jinthers 4-celled, those of the 3d series 
with the two upper cells introrsely opening, the lower ex- 
trorsely and lateral; the sterile filaments thread-shaped. Stig- 
ma peltate, subrepand. Berry 1 -seeded, seated on the cup- 
shaped base of the perianth. 
A tree of Upper California, with alternate pennately nerved 
leaves. The flowers aggregated in axillary umbellated clusters, 
inclosed by the involucrum, the scales of the involucrum broad- 
ish, alternate and approximate, after the opening of the flower, 
caducous. 
CALIFORNIAN UMBELLULARIA. 
UMBELLULARIA Californica, hermaphrodita , foliis pe- 
rennantibus oblongo-lanceolatis vix acutis penninerviis 
reticulata-venosis glabris, pedunculis axillaribus simpli - 
cibus , floribus pluribus , umbella subcapitata , pedunculo 
folio brevioribus. 
Tetranthera? Californica, Hooker, et Arn. in Botan. 
Beech. Voy., p. 159. Hooker. Flor. Bor. Amer., 2. p. 137. 
Laurus regia? Douglas. Journal, in Hook. Compan. Bot. 
Mag., vol. 2. 
This splendid evergreen tree was discovered on the 
