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CX. LAURINEiE. 
[Hndiandra. 
14. E. tooram (aboriginal name), Bail. “ Tooram,” Middle Tully River, 
J. F. Bailey. Small tree. Branchlets rather slender, and more of less ferrugin- 
ous-tomentose. Leaves oblong, about 4 to 5iin. long and about l^in. 
broad, tapering to a petiole of 8 to 4 lines, upper side glabrous, underside thinly 
ferruginous tomentose, lateral nerves about 14 on each side of the midrib. No 
flowers seen. Fruit purple, borne on irregular racemose-panicles at the end of 
short branchlets ; pedicels thickened, 2 or 3 lines long, orbicular, flattened, 
almost lens-shaped, 1 to 14in. diameter ; epicarp fleshy, endorcarp thin crusta- 
ceous, cotyledons very thick, plumula hairy. 
Hab.: Middle Tully River, J. F. Bailey. 
Fruit eaten by the natives.— J. F. Bailey. 
4. CINNAMOMUM, Burn. 
(From the Arabic name for Cinnamon.) 
Flowers usually more or less unisexual. Perianth-segments 6, equal or nearly 
so. Stamens of the outer series G, all perfect with introrse anthers, of the inner 
series 3 perfect, with extrorse anthers, alternating with 3 short staminodia ; 
anthers 4-celled or the inner ones rarely 2-celled ; glands 6, at the base of the 
inner perfect stamens. Ovary not immersed. Berry seated on the somewhat 
enlarged truncate or G-lobed perianth-tube, the segments wholly or partially 
deciduous. — Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite or often more or less alternate on 
the same tree, 3-nerved or rarely 5 -nerved. Flowers in axillary panicles, more 
or less unisexual, the females usually rather larger and fewer in the panicle with 
the stamens slightly imperfect, the males smaller and more numerous with a. 
sterile ovary. The numbers of parts of the perianth and of the stamens liable to 
occasional variation, especially in the females. 
The genus extends over tropical and subtropical Asia as far as Japan, one of the Australian. 
species is the same as an E. Indian one, the two others are endemic. 
Leaves lanceolate, attaining 8in., narrow. Panicles long as the leaves. 
Pedicels about 1 line long 1. C. Oliveri. 
Leaves ovate to ovate-lanceolate, attaining 3in. Panicles long as the leaves. 
Perianth sessile 2. C.propinquum - 
Leaves ovate lanceolate, attaining 6 or more inches, triplinerved. Panicles 
long as the leaves. Pedicels long as the perianth 3. C. Tamala. 
1. C. Oliveri (after Prof. D. Oliver), Bail. Bot. Bull. v. 25 ; Proc. Roy 
Soc. Ql. xi. x. 24. Sassafras. A tall tree, glabrous, except the inflorescence* 
trunk erect, bark containing nodules, smoothish, rather thin and fragrant. 
Leaves opposite or nearly so, lanceolate, attaining about 8in. in length, and then 
scarcely over 14in. broad in the widest part, colour pale, the apex blunt or 
minutely emarginate, on petioles of about |in. which are flattened, the upper 
surface glossy, the under surface of lighter colour, midrib flattish, tbe primary 
lateral nerves very oblique, few, the basal pair faint, and very near the margin 
until lost in the reticulation about half-way up the leaf. Inflorescence terminal, 
or in the upper axils, in loose elongated panicles 6 to 8in. long ; flowers in twos 
or threes at the end of the branchlets, the pedicels about a line long. Flower 
velvety, cream coloured, perianth-tube slender, about 2| lines long, the lobes 
equal, scarcely as long as the tube, marked by several longitudinal nerves. 
Stamens 9 ; the six outer ones about as long as the perianth-lobes, filaments- 
flattened and hairy, the 3 inner ones short, with prominent glands upon the 
hairy filaments. Staminodia with sagittate heads and hairy filaments like the 
stamens. Style and ovary nearly or quite glabrous ; stigma dilated. Berry 
about 4 lines long, oval, partially sunk in the slightly enlarged calyx-tube from 
which the lobes have fallen. 
Hab.: Scrubs of North Coast Railway. 
