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LXIV. LAURTNEAL 
Order LXIY. LAURINE^3. 
Trees or shrubs, often aromatic ; one genus is of climbing leafless herbs. 
Leaves alternate, rarely opposite, quite entire, exstipulate. Flowers usually 
hermaphrodite, small, green, fascicled panicled or umbelled. — Perianth of 4-8 
(often 6), herbaceous, imbricate segments, rarely 0. Stamens usually 12-15, 
in 2 or 3 series, all fertile or the inner sterile, filaments naked or glandular at 
the base ; anther-cells 2-4, opening in front or behind by upturned valves. 
Ovary free, 1-celled ; style short, stigma simple or 3-lobed ; ovule 1, pendu- 
lous, rarely 2. Drupe or berry free or enclosed in the perianth, 1-seeded. Seed 
with membranous testa, large plano-convex cotyledons, and no albumen. 
A very large tropical Order, to which the Bay Laurel, Camphor, and Cinnamon belong. 
Leafy shrub or tree. Flowers in a 4- or 5-leaved involucre .... 1. Tetranthera. 
Leafy trees. Flowers pauicled 2. Nesodaphne. 
Leafless, twining, string-like herb 3. Cassytha. 
1. TETRANTHERA, Jacquin. 
Shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, rarely opposite. — Flowers usually axil- 
lary, dioecious, umbelled within a 4- or 5 -leaved, deciduous involucre. Peri- 
anth 0 or 4-8-parted. Male fl. : Stamens 6-15 ; all or the inner filaments 
glandular at the base ; anthers 4-celled. Ovary rudimentary. Female fl. : 
Stamens rudimentary. Ovary oblong, with a dilated stigma. Berry ovoid. 
A very large genus in the tropics of the Old World. 
1. T. calicaris, Hook. f. Fl. N. Z. i. 216. A small, evergreen, glabrous, 
umbrageous tree. Leaves petioled, 3-4 in. long, ovate or oblong, obtuse, 
quite entire, sometimes glaucous below. Involucral leaves 4 or 5, concave, 
A-i in. long, 4- or 5 -flowered. Pedicels silky, as long as the involucral leaves. 
Perianth of 5-8 oblong segments. Stamens about 12 ; filaments slender, 
all 2-glandular ; anthers dilated, 4-valved, bursting inwards. Berry ovoid, 
f in. long ; peduncle thickened at the top. — Laurus calicaris , A. Cunn. 
Northern Island : from the Bay of Islands to the east coast, Banks and Solander, etc. 
2. NESODAPHNE, Hook. f. 
Forest trees, with evergreen, alternate leaves and axillary or terminal pani- 
cles. — Flowers hermaphrodite, panicled. Perianth 6-partite, deciduous. Sta- 
mens 1 2, in 2 series ; 6 outer fertile opposite the perianth lobes, with eglan- 
dular filaments and introrse anthers ; of the 6 inner, 3 are antheriferous with ex- 
trorse anthers, and glands opposite the bases of their filaments ; the 3 others 
have imperfect anthers. Style short, stigma simple. Berry ovoid, top of the 
fruiting peduncle swollen. 
A genus confined to New Zealand, as far as at present known. 
Branches stout and petioles and panicles tomentose 1. N. Tarairi. 
Branches slender, and petioles and panicles nearly glabrous 2. N. Tawa. 
1. N. Tarairi, Hook. f. Fl. N. Z. i. 217. A lofty forest tree, 60-80 
ft. high. Branches stout, petioles panicles and costa of leaf below densely 
