Small evergreen trees or shrubs with aromatic leaves.
1Every hut is surrounded with enormous trees of persea,* (* Laurus persea (alligator pear).)
2The chief object of these incursions is the collection of sarsaparilla and the aromatic seeds of the puchery-laurel (Laurus pichurim).
3Indeed one man, named Father Laurus, speaks of this as an observed fact, and gravely gives directions how it is to be accomplished.
4Was this T. B. Laurus Joannes Baptista Laurus or Giovanni Battista Lauro (1581-1621), the poet and writer?
5* (* Is this the Laurus cinnamomoides of Mutis?