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1. CANELLA, P. B. 



Staminal tube without exterior scales : anthers 10, contiguous on the outside of the tube, 

 and each dehiscent by two longitudinal fissures. Ovary with 2 (-3) parietal placentas, each 

 puuctiform, situated below the middle of the wall, and provided with two collateral, campy- 

 lotropous ovules, which ascend from a pendulous funiculus ; style short, terminated with 

 2 (-3) globular, contiguous stigmas. Berry filled up by a gelatinous pulp, including a few 

 seeds : testa crustaceous ; inner integument adhering to the fleshy endosperm ; embryo half 

 its length: radicle short, inferior. — A tree; leaves glabrous; corymbs terminal: flowers 

 numerous, violet, with yellow anthers. 



1. C. alba, Murr. Leaves spathulate, tapering towards the short petiole, rounded at 

 the top, paler beneath; •pedicels exceeding much the size of the flower. — SI. t. 191./. 2; 

 P. Br. Jam. t. 27. /. 3 ; Sw. in Linn. Transact. 1. t. 8 ; Hayne, Arzn. 9. t. 5.— Wiu- 

 terana Canella, L. C. laurifolia, Lodd.—A tree, 50'-10' high ; leaves evergreen, 2"-3"long, 

 1 broad ; sepals 1'" long, broadly rounded, minutely ciliate, half the length of the erect, 

 obovate-oblong petals ; staminal tube equalling the included style, a little shorter than the 

 odorous corolla : anthers reaching from its top to the middle ; berry black, globose, 4'" diam. 

 (immature ovoid) ; seeds black, shining, orbicular, impressed at the micropyle, 2'" diam., 

 convex on both sides. — Hab. Jamaica!, Dist., Wils., March, common in the woods of the 

 lowlands and lower hills; Bahamas!, Barbadoes! [Cuba!, S. Croix, Guadeloupe!, Mar- 

 tinique]. 



2. CINNAMODENDRON, Endl. 



Staminal tube encircled by five exterior, hypogynous, petaline scales, alternating with the 

 petals : anthers 10-20, contiguous on the outside of the tube, and each dehiscent by two 

 longitudinal fissures. Ovary with 4 (-5) parietal placentas, each longitudinal : ovules inde- 

 finite, horizontal, campylotropous, provided with two integuments ; style short, terminated 

 with 4 (-5) globular, contiguous stigmas. Berry filled up by the growth of the placentas, at 

 length wholly involving the numerous seeds : testa crustaceous ; endosperm fleshy and oUy : 

 embryo one-third its length. — Trees ; corymbs axillary, or at length lateral, contracted. 



2. C. corticosum, Miers! Leaves elliptical-oblong, rounded at the base, shortly pe- 

 tioled, pointleted or bluntish, green beneath ; pedicels as long as the flower ; petals ovate, 

 rounded at the top, red ; petaline scales elliptical-lanceolate, blunt, not ciliate ; anthers 

 16 (-20).— C. rubrum, Gr. in lit. Canella alba, Ns. Eberm.—A low, shrubby tree, 10'-15' 

 high ; leaves 2"-3" long, l"-2" broad : petiole enlarged at the top, not much exceeded by the 

 corymb, or equalling it ; sepals and petals resembling those of Canella alba, their propor- 

 tions and those of the staminal tube being the same : petaline scales half the length of the 

 staminal tube, erect, a little imbricated, reaching to the base of the anthers, and closely ap- 

 pressed to the filamental part ; ovules numerous : fasciculi rather long, pluriserial on each 

 placenta; berry globose-ovoid, 3 "'-6'" long, 4"'-6'" diam., supported by the spreading 

 calyx, minutely apiculate by the persistent stigmas : seeds ovoid, brown, shining, V" long 

 (not yet ripe in our specimens). — Hab. Jamaica!, Wils., March, in the higher mountain- 

 woods, S. Thomas in the V., S. John. 



XXXVI. MARCGRAAVIACE.E. 



Sepals imbricative, in several 2-3-leaved whorls. Stamens indefinite (-5) : anthers in- 

 trorse. Pistil paracarpous, with incomplete dissepiments : placentas multiovnlate ; stigma 

 sessile, radiate : the single rays prominent or decurrent. Pericarp fleshy, dehiscent. Seeds 

 minute : embryo exalbuminoos, straight, cylindrical ; radicle short. — Woody plants, usually 

 climbing ; leaves alternate, simple, leathery, articulated at the base, exstipulate ; flowers 

 centripetal ■. bracts cucullate or clavate. 



An obsolete drug is prepared from the watery juice of Marcgraavia, which exudes copi- 

 ously from the cut stem. 



1. NORANTEA, Aubl. 



Sepals 1, two exterior smaller. Petals 5. Stamens °o-12 (-7): anthers lim-ar, erect, 



