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Ihmmg gi-een hue, and thick like thofe of the laurel : the flowers 



are Tmall, feldom opening, of a violet colour, and grow in clufters 

 at the tops of the branches upon divided footftalks : the calyx is 

 monophyllus, divided nearly to its hafe into three lobes, which arc 

 roundilh, concave, incumbent, green, fmooth, membranous, and per- 

 fiftent : the corolla is compofed of five petals, wMch are much longer 

 than the calyx, feffile, oblong, concave, ered, and two of them are 

 fomewhat narrower than the other three : the nedary is pitch.. - 

 ihaped, of the length of the petals, and fupports the antherse inftead 



of tilaments, which are wanting: the anthers are twenty .^ ^, 



parallel, diftind:, fingle valved, and fixed longitudinally to the nedaT) 



the germen is ovate, placed above the infertion of the corolla and 



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fupports a cylindrical ftyle, furnifhed wath two obtufe rough 

 ftigmata: the fruit is an .oblong berry, containing four kidney-iliaped 

 feeds of unequal fize.* 



It appears a little furprifing, that the Canella, which is a native of 

 the Weft Indies, and of which figures have been given by Plukenet^ 

 Sloane, Catefby, Browne," and others, fhould have been generally 

 confounded with the tree w^hich produces the cortex wanteranus: 

 £ven the younger LinnjEus, who defcribes this tree under the genus 

 Winterauia, frx)m a fpecimen in the herbarium of Montin, has acknow- 

 Jedged that he could not difcover how far it differed from the Drimys, 

 or Wintera of Murray."" The prefent figure, which is given on the 

 authoiity of Dr. Swartz, who prefented it to the Linnean Society, 

 accdmpamcd with a botanical hiftory of the tree,|| will, we hope, re- 



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* " The whole tree (according to Dr. Swartz) is very aromatic, and when in bloflbm 

 perfumes the whole neighbourhood. The flowers dried, and foftened again in warnt 



water 



have a fragrant odour, nearly approaching to that of muflc^ The leaves have a 

 itrong fmell of laurel. The berries^, after having been fome time green, turn blue, and 

 become n laft of a black glofly colour, and have a faint aromatic tafte and fmell. They 

 S- ^'P^' ^^ ^^^^ ^^ '^^ ^^"^* ^^ fcveral kinds of laurel, very agreeable to the 



IVhite.beUied and BaU-pate Pigeons, (Columba Jamaicenfis ^ leucocephala) which feeding 



greedily upon^hem acquire that peculiar flavour fo much admired in the places where 

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* Swartz obferves, that the oiily tolerable figure among thefe is that of Browne, I. c. 



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