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DR. HRER ON THE EOSSIL FLORA OF BOYET TRACEY. 
Order II. PEOTEIN^, 
Fam. I. Laurine^, Vent. 
1. Laurus, Linn. 
17. Laurus primigenia, Ung. (Plate LXV. fig. 6.) 
L. foliis subcoriaceis, late lanceolatis, acuminatis, nervo primario valido, nervis secun- 
dariis tennibus, sparsis, sub angulo acute egredientibus. 
Unger, Fossile Flora von Sotzka, p. 38, pi. 19. figs. 1-4. 
Heer, Flora Tertiaria Helvetise, ii. p. 77, pi. 89. fig. 15 ; iii. p. 184, pi. 153. fig. 3. 
In the 26th bed. 
The leaf represented in Plate LXV. fig. 6 agrees very well with the leaf of the Hohe 
Ehonen, which is represented in pi. 153 in my ‘ Flora.’ It is dark brown, rather hard, 
smooth and entire, and gradually tapered towards the base. The secondary nerves are at 
a distance from each other, strongly curved, and form long arches near the margin. 
The large principal areas are divided into secondary areas by fine nervules. The apex 
of the leaf is not preserved. 
2. CmJSTAMOMUM, Burm. 
18. CiNNAMOMUM Eossmassleri. (Plate LXVII. figs. 17 & 18.) 
C. foliis ellipticis vel oblongo-ellipticis, triplinerviis, nervis lateralibus acrodromis api- 
cem attingentibus, nervatione in areis reticulata. 
Flora Tertiaria Helvetiae, ii. p. 84, pi. 93. figs. 15-17. 
Phyllites dnnamomum, Eossmassler, Versteinerungen von Altsattel, p. 23, taf. 1. 
fig. 4. 
JDajylinogene cinnamomifolia, Unger, Genera et Spec. Plant. Foss. p. 424. 
Bovey Tracey, in the 17th bed. 
The two fragments figured are the only ones which were found ; their apices are 
wanting, the determination therefore cannot be considered as quite sure. The leaf, 
however, agrees in its size, form, and nervation with C. JRossmdssleri. Only a little 
piece is wanting in the leaf represented in fig. 18, as the raised sides show; the two 
lateral nerves run, however, to the end of the preserved part, and are so distinct there 
that undoubtedly they reached to the apex, which forms the principal character of the 
leaf, which is nearly related to C. zeylanicum, Bl., and still more to C. eucalyptoides, 
Nees {C. nitidum^ Hook.). The leaf has a tolerably slender petiole; it is broadest in 
the middle, and equally tapered towards both ends. The two lateral nerves springing 
above the base are pretty strong, and run parallel with the margin. The very delicate 
nervules spring at right or at least not very acute angles. 
