109 E Dr. SwanTZ's Botanical Hifory 
Anthere 21 lineares parallele, diftinétæ, longitudinaliter 
nectario extus adnate, univalves: 
3 Pollen luteum. 
p PIST. „Germen, fuperum; intra ne&arium,. ovaturh.. . 
Stylus cylindricus, longitudine : nectarii. 
Stigmata duo, obtufa, convexa, rugofa. ^ 
“Per. Bacca oblonga unilocylaris 2—4, fperma, > 
Semina fi ubrotundo-reniformia, nauco fragili. nitenti tecta. 
. The diftinguifhing marks deduced from. this character are, x 
" . Calyx trilobus? 
Corolla pentapetala. 
oc e MINUTE Da adnatæ neétario urceolato. 
^.. .. Bacca unilocularis, 2—4 fperma. 
This genus, whole name is more properly changed to that of 
Canella, cannot be removed from dodecandria, where it has forme: rly 
been, notwithftanding its flowers bear fome fimilarity to thofe of 
the fixteenth clafs. But on the fame principle, Melia, Trichilia, 
Samyda, Erythroxylon, &c. fhould alfo change their place, which 
feems not very juft, as they cannot be ranged among the Columni- 
ferz, the natural tribe of that clafs. 
There are various figüres given of this plant by feveral authors; 
as by PLUKENET, in the Phytogr. tab. 160, f£. 15 by SLOANE, in the 
Hiftory of Jamaica, vol. ii. tab. 191, f. 2, and in the Pbilofophical 
Tranfait. 1692, No. 1925 by Carsssv, in his Hz7/ory of Carolina, 
vol. ii. p. 50, tab. 50; by Mrs. BLACKWELL, in her Icon. tab. 206; 
and, laftly, by Browne, in his Natural Hiffory of Jamaica, tab. 27, 
f. 2. The laft is the only tolerable one among them all; but it feems 
fo little underftood by Browne himfelf, that he has referred Breynia 
fruticofa, fol. fingularibus oblongo-ovatis fuperne nitidis, &c. Hif. 
of Jam. p. 240, n. 3, to this figure, evidently that of the Canella alba, 
"e of 
