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carinato; racemis axillaribus petiolum paullo superantibus, 

 ssepius 3-floris, floribus parvis, pedicellis puberulis, calyce 

 sequilongis, imo 2-bracteatis, petalis exterioribus carnosis, 

 interioribus tenuioribus fere sequalibus, pellucido-punctatis, 

 stylo paullo exserto, truncato. — Brasilia, ad San Pedro dos 

 Indios, circa Cabo Frio, in Prov. Rio de Janeiro. — v. s. in hb. 

 Hooker (Martins)*. 



This is described as a middle-sized tree : its leaves are from 

 If to 2 inches long, and 14 to 15 lines broad, on a petiole 

 3 lines long : the racemes are few-flowered, and scarcely measure 

 more than 4 lines in length : the flowers, when ripe, are only 

 one-third the size of those of Canella alba; in the specimen 

 above referred to they are in bud, but sufficiently advanced to 

 make out the several parts, I found the inner row of petals 

 glabrous, not ciliated, as described in the * Nova Acta,^ and equal 

 in size to the outer row, not minute and squamiform; the 

 anther-cells also are linear, not ovate, in which respects they 

 agree with the following species. The tree is called by the 

 natives ' Hierba moeira do Sertao/ as mentioned in Spix and 

 Martius's Travels (Reise, i. p. 83, ii. p. 336). 



2. CinriMmodendron corticosum, n. sp. ; — arboreum, biorgyale, 

 ramosum, ramulis tenuiculis, flexuosis, lenticellis maculatis; 

 foliis elongato-oblongis, utrinque acutiusculis, apice attenuatis, 

 glaberrimis, integris, tenuiter anastomoso-nervosis et valde 

 reticulatis, supra nitidis, subtus pallidioribus, et glanduloso- 

 punctulatis, punctis porosis et minutissime pellucidis, margine 

 revoluto, rachi petioloque brevi superne canaliculatis, infra 

 carinatis; racemulis axillaribus, brevibus, 3-4-floris, petiolo 

 paullo longioribus, pedicellis striatis, puberulis, flore prse- 

 cedentis 2-plo aut 3-plo majori; ovario 1-loculari, ovulis 

 numerosissimis in placentis carnosis prominentibus 5 (rarius 

 4), biseriatim affixis : stylo tubo sequilongo, stigmatibus 5 

 (rarius 4) : bacca ovata, polysperma. — Ins. Jamaica apud 

 Bath. — V, s. in hb. CI. Dom, Hanburyf. 



This is a very distinct species, differing from the preceding in 

 the form and size of its leaves. I am greatly indebted to Daniel 

 Hanbury, Esq., F.L.S., who placed his specimens in my hands 

 for examination, and who afterwards kindly sent to Jamaica for 

 samples of the flower and fruit preserved in alcohol, from which 

 I have been enabled to complete the above details. Its bark has 

 the same aromatic properties as that of Canella alba, from which 



* A representation of this plant will be seen in plate 24 a. of the ' Con- 

 tributions to Botany.' 



t Analytical details and a drawing of this species will be given in plate 

 24 B, of the same work. 



