Nectandra Rottb.

Evergreen trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, or occasionally subopposite, the blades. penninerved. Inflorescence axillary and/or subterminal, usually paniculate. Flowers perfect, pedicellate. Perianth-tube-conspicuous or lacking. Perianth-lobes usually fleshy and reflexed or spreading at anthesis, usually deciduous. Stamens of the two outer series fleshy, petaloid, papillose and ovate, or quadrate or orbicular with conspicuous connective tissue, or reniform or subreniform, fre-quently emarginate, with no apparent connective tissue, the cells occupying the entire anther. Anthers sessile or borne on filaments, with four introrse cells usually arranged in an arc-like formation, which only rarely is obscure. Stamens of inner or third series usually quadrate; in flowers bearing petaloid outer series, the inner also sometimes fleshy and papillose with truncate connectives; in other cases, the inner not fleshy nor papillose and the connectives inconspicuous. Four cells ar-ranged in two horizontal planes; those of the upper plane lateral or laterally extrorse; those of the lower plane usually extrorse. Staminodia when present, for the most part, stipe-like. Gynaecium completely glabrous except in N. reticulata; ovary subglobose or ovoid, rarely ellipsoid; style usually short; stigma conspicuous, discoid or subcapitate, triangular or occasionally triangular-peltate, often decur-rent. Fruit usually ellipsoid or subglobose, occasionally oblong or obovoid, borne in a cupule with simple margin occasionally bearing remnants of the perianth-lobes, uniformly subtended by enlarged pedicel.