CXIX. LAURINEjE, 
93 
Cinnamomum.] 
sub-acute. Fruit ellipsoid, black, pulpy blunt, *4 to *6 in. long, 
cupule very short. Hab. Common in low-lying damp open country 
all over the peninsula. Distrib. Burma, Sumatra, Java and 
Borneo. Native names: Lelang; Kayu Manis hutan. G $ e. 
The bark is slightly aromatic, and occasionally used by Malays 
in curry, but the whole tree is nearly tasteless. 
var. angustifolium Ridl. A much bigger tree, with narrow 
lanceolate leaves 7 in, long, i *5 in- wide. Perhaps specifically 
distinct, but the flowers seem the same. Hab . River banks, Perak, 
Temengoh. Kelantan River (Ridley). 
(6) C. Ridleyi Gamble, in Kew Bulletin, 1910, p. 218; Journ. 
As. Soc. Beng. l.c. 77. 
A short tree. Leaves chartaceous elliptic-lanceolate, long 
attenuate cuspidate blunt, base acute glabrous shining above, 4 to 
6 in. long, 1 to 2-25 in. wide; petioles-2 in. long. Panicles grey- 
tomentose slender spreading, 2 to 4 in. long. Flowers in small 
cymes on branchlet ends, -i in. long. Perianth villous inside, 
tube short lobes ovate. Fruit ovoid apiculate, *4 in. long, *3 m. 
through; cupule cup-shaped, *2 in. across. Hab . Singapore, a 
single tree on the Changi road near Changi (Ridley). 
(7) C. Deschampsii Gamble, Kew Bulletin, 1910, p. 219; Journ. 
As. Soc. Beng. l.c. 80. 
Bushy tree with short, thick stem about 30 ft. tall (stem about 
4 to 5 ft.) and 1 ft. through. Leaves variable oblong or elliptic- 
ovate, coriaceous or rigid coriaceous, base rounded; nerves 3 Ip 5 
from base, dark green shining; 3 to 6 in. long, 175 to 3 in. wide; 
petioles *2 in. long. Panicles lax spreading slightly puberulous; 
branches distant slender, 1*5 in. long. Flowers *15 in. long, silky. 
Drupes ellipsoid, -5 in. long, blunt, calyx coriaceous, 5-lobed. 
Hab. Cultivated ground in low lands, Singapore, Botanic Gardens. 
Penang, roadsides (Deschamps). 
I very much doubt if this Cinnamon is indigenous, but it does not appear 
to have ever been collected elsewhere. 
(8) C. rhyncophyllum Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. I, i. 185. (Fig. I 44 > 
P ‘ 9 jree up to 50 ft. tall, 12 to 18 in. through; branchlets grey 
puberulous. Leaves chartaceous, stiff, aromatic, elliptic to oblong 
abruptly cuspidate blunt, base narrowed, glaucous beneath and 
minutely silky, 4 to 5 in. long, 2 to 2-25 in. wide; petioles -25 in. 
long. Panicles lax sub-terminal, 5 in. long, branches 2 or p-p 
tomentose, rather thick. Flowers yellow, waxy, *15 m. long (middle 
ones the largest) tomentose. Perianth-tube short; lobes ovate acute. 
Fruit ovoid truncate, -4 in. long, cupule *25 in. long, -4 in. across. 
Hab. Perak, Tapah (Wray); Larut (Kunstler). Distnb. Sumatra. 
var. lampongum Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. Supp. 358; Gamble, l.c. 79. 
Leaves more gradually narrowed to tip. Hab. Perak, Gopmg and 
Larut (Kunstler). 
I am quite unable to separate these two plants. 
