DE. HEEE THE FOSSIL ELOEA OF BOVEY TEACEY. 
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19. CixxAMOMUM ScHEUCHZERi. (Plates LXVII. figs. 9-16; LV. fig. i e; LXVIII. 
fig. 12.) 
C. foliis petiolatis, ellipticis, ovalibus et oblongis, triplinerviis, nervis lateralibus 
margine parallelis vel subparallelis, apicem non attingentibus ; pedunculis articn- 
latis, pedicellis apice incrassatis, fructibus ovatis. 
Flora Tertiaria Helvetiee, ii. p. 85, pi. 91. figs. 4-24, pi. 92, pi. 93. figs. 1-5. 
Eather frequent in tire ITth and 26 th beds at Bovey. 
These are leathery, entire, and three-nerved leaves, which are broadest in the middle, 
and gradually and equally tapered towards both ends ; they are acuminated at the base 
in the same manner as at the apex, without running into the petiole ; the sides form 
almost regularly curved lines. The two strong lateral nerves are jointed above the 
base of the leaf; they are mostly opposite (Plate LXVII. figs. 11, 13 & 16), the one 
seldom a little higher than the other (Plate LXVII. figs. 10 & 15) ; they run parallel 
with the margin. They do not reach to the apex of the leaf, but they unite above the 
middle of the leaf with a secondary nerve of the midrib (figs. 10 & 11). The areas are 
provided vuth very delicate nervules, which spring at almost right angles. I found the 
two flowers which are represented in Plate LXVIII. figs. 13 & 13 c (magnified 13 5 
and 13 d) in the 26 th bed of Bovey. They very much resemble the flower from Oeningen 
represented in the ‘Flora Tertiaria Helvetiae,’ pi. 91. fig. 23 b, and therefore probably 
belong to Cinnamomum Sclieuclizeri. The leaflets of the perianthium of the flower 
represented in fig. 13 c are indistinct; they are much better preserved in fig. 13 (mag- 
nified 13 h\ There are six leaflets, standing in two whorls around a circular wall. 
The leaflets are hard, shortly oval, obtusely rounded at the apex, and provided with 
longitudinal striae. They are shorter and broader, and more obtusely rounded than in 
Cinnamomum pohjmoy'pbum^ A. Br. (cf. Flora Tertiaria Ilelvetiae, pi. 94. figs. 1-5). We 
have beautiful branches from Oeningen Avith leaves of this species. We lately got a 
branch with the inflorescence, which confirms the systematic position Avhich I assigned 
to the leaves. I therefore represent this branch in Plate LXVII. fig. 12. Numerous 
floAvers, still in the state of buds, but nearly breaking olf, are lying together, and some- 
times one above the other, so that it is not possible to find out their insertion with 
certainty. One sees, hoAA'ever, that the peduncles spring from the axils of the leaves, 
and Ave have therefore an axillary inflorescence. The peduncles are club-shaped above, 
and this part forms with the bud an almost globose body, on Avhich the leaflets of the 
perianthium are indicated at some places. These peduncles lengthen afterwards and 
become more sharply articulated, as the peduncles and fruit-stalks Avhich I have 
represented in my ‘Flora Tertiaria’ (pi. 91. figs. 4-7) show. 
It is A’ei'y like C. pedunculatum, Thb., from Japan. 
20. CixxAMOMUM LANCEOLATUM. (Plates LXVII. figs. 1-8; LXVIII. figs. 14 & 15.) 
C. foliis petiolatis, lanceolatis, basi apiceque acuminatis, triplinerAdis, nervis lateralibus 
margine parallelis, approximate, acrodromis, apicem non attingentibus. 
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