ON TWO NEW SPECIES OF LAURINEZE. 631 
semi-immersus, Semen forme fructus; testa coriaceo-char- 
tacea ; hilo lato orbiculato. 
Species ab Acrodiclidiis descriptis, preter inflorescentiam 
laxam et perigonium latius subcampanulatum, differt imprimis 
fructu maximo. In A. Brasiliensi dicitur magnitudine semi- 
nis Brassice, in A. Jamaicensi pisi majoris volumine, in 4. 
Guianensi et Kunthiano ignotum. 
The Camara tree is from 35 to 40 feet high, the trunk 
grey, almost smooth, and from 8 to 10 feet in circumference 
near the base, It possesses a tendency to throw out flat or 
tabular projections near the lower part of the trunk, similar 
to Mora excelsa and Aspidospermum excelsum. The wood is 
yellow, splintery, and of a bitter aromatic taste; the branches 
divaricate, and are grey. The flowers cream-coloured. The 
globose and depressed fruit resembles much the Greenheart 
(Nectandra Rodiei), but it is perfectly smooth, of a 
whitish-green colour, and about half its size, immersed in 
the brownish cupula ; while in the former it merely adheres 
to the short cupula. 
Most of the flowers of the thyrsus prove abortive, and 
8enerally only one fruit or, at the most, two come to matu- 
rity. 
It appears this tree is restricted to the sandstone 
regions north and south of Roraima, under the fifth parallel 
of latitude. The Indians generally collect the fruits when 
they drop from the trees, and dividing them in halves or 
quarters, according to their size, string them to a thread and 
hang them up in the sun to dry. The Waccawais, Arecunas, 
and Sarakong Indians, make them an article of traffic, and ex- 
change them for other goods with the Indians of the coast 
regions, and sell them for money to the Creoles, who (as 
artsinck has already observed) place great confidence in 
their virtue. Dr. Hancock mentions the large aromatic and 
astringent fruit as one of the most efficacious remedies, in 
diarrhoea, dysentery, colic and spasmodic pains. 
