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Cinnamomum ; they never approaeh an orbieular, and rarely an 
oval form, but are usually long and narrow, very thick and 
coriaceous, both sides being subpolished, owing to the immer- 
sion of the nerves and more especially of the veins ; they present 
a peculiar appearance from the manner in which their long and 
strong petioles (much thickened at their apex and articulated at 
the base) are inserted at an oblique angle into the plane of the 
leaf. The male inflorescence consists of several extremely slen- 
der branching panicles, fasciculated and issuing from a point 
above the insertion of the petioles, the rachis and its short 
branches being almost capillary, black, and glabrous : these 
branches are also charged, at regular intervals, with 3-4 fasci- 
culated ramifications, that again bear several pedicellated minute 
flowers, which are glabrous, and black when dried. This is very 
different iromAbuta. The female inflorescence is shorter, seldom 
exceeding the length of the petiole, and consists of one or two 
simple racemes, with a single flower upon each lengthened and 
spreading pedicel, bracteated at its origin, all quite glabrous. 
Anelasma, nob. — Flores dioici. Masc, Sepala 6 vel 9, in ordine 
ternario alterna, oblonga, carnosa, glabra, 3 interiora majora, 
obovata, concava, intus striis 2 notata, sestivatione subimbricata. 
Petala nulla. Stamina 6, sepalis opposita, subseriata, erecta, 
conniventia, 3 interiora paulo longiora et latiora : filamenta 
carnosa, subincurva, sursum incrassata ; antherae subglobosa?, 
apicales, filamento subintrorsum semi-immersse, rima transver- 
sali obliqua 2-valvatim hiantes, saepius septo valvis parallelo et 
rarius e septulo cruciformi, 3-4-locellatae. — Fcem. Sepala ina- 
rium. Stamina sterilia 6, brevia, circa gynsecium hypogyna, 
compressa, carnosa, apice 2-glandulosa. Ovaria 3, libera, 
gibboso-globosa, gynaecio brevi centrali insita, glabra, lucida, 
carnosa, 1-locularia, 1-ovulata: stylus brevissimus; stigma 
acute et breviter bifidum aut obsoletum. Drupes 3, vel abortu 
2-1, sicese, oblongse, subgibbse, glaberrimae, subnitidse, imo 
excentrice stipitatae, styli vestigio a basi baud distaute notatae ; 
putamen et semen iis Abutes conformia. 
Frutices vel arbusculae Americes inter tropica, erecta, ramosa ; 
ramuli substricti, glabri ; folia alterna, oblonga, crasso-coriacea, 
utrinque glaberrima, nitida, ^-^-nei-via [baud penninervia), 
nervis venisque transversis sapius immersis, hinc inter dum fere 
evenia ; petiolo summo basique valde tumido : paniculae (S race- 
mosa, plurima (3-5), fasciculata, supra-asuillares, graciles, 
glabra ; flores numerosi, minuti, glabri : racemi $ 1-2, sim- 
plices, pauciflori. 
1. Anelasma Gardnerianum, nob., Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 2. vii. 
