Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part L) Author Jarvis, Charlie Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, UK text 2007 Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum London Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types 610 650 book chapter https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971 978-0-9506207-7-0 291971 Laurus cassia Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 1 : 369. 1753 . "Habitat in Malabaria, Sumatra, Java." RCN: 2911. Type not designated. Original material: Herb. Hermann 5: 120, No. 146 [icon] ( BM ) ; Herb. Hermann 4: 11, No. 146 ( BM ) ; Herb. Hermann 2: 67, No. 146 ( BM ) ; [icon] in Burman, Thes. Zeylan.: 63, t. 28. 1737; [icon] in Rheede, Hort. Malab. 1: 107, t. 57. 1678. Current name: Neolitsea cassia (L.) Kosterm. ( Lauraceae ). Note: See Wight (in Hooker's J. Bot. 2: 340. 1840) for an extensive discussion. Kostermans (in Reinwardtia 4: 246. 1957) says this name is based on Hermann's specimens via Linnaeus' Fl. Zeylanica no. 146, and that they represent a mixture of Litsea zeylanica Nees and "the wild Cinnamomum zeylanicum ". As they are evidently not part of a single gathering, Kostermans' subsequent treatment (in Dassanayake & al., Revised Handb. Fl. Ceylon 9: 164. 1995) of the Hermann material as the type does not comply with Art. 9.15 and cannot be accepted as a formal typification.