soups, to heighten the flavoui* ami to give a rich agreeable col- 

 our. In Jamaica, a liquid preparation is usually kept tor culi- 

 nary purposes, made, by boiling the pulp, diffused in water, 

 with sugar and salt, to tiie consistence of cream, which, if put 

 into well-corked bottles, will keep for several years.* 



The bark of the tree is well adapted for making cordage : 

 and pieces of the wood are employed by the Indians to procure 

 fire by friction. 



II. L.ETIA. 



Calyx 5-partite, coloured, marescent. Petals 4-5 

 or none. Stamens indefinite in number, hypog-ynous : 

 anthers roundish. Style 1 : stigma capitate. Cap- 

 sule fleshy, 3-5 valved, globose, acuminated with the 

 style : seeds very many, with an arillated pulpy pelli- 

 cle.^ — De Cand. 



Named in honour of John de Laet of Antwerp. 



1. * Lastia? Guidonia. Terminal-Jiowered Lcetia. 



Flowers apetalous, peduncles terminal l-flowei"ed, 

 leaves oblong acuminate pubescent. — De Cand. 



Guidonia, Broime, Jam. 249. t. 29. f. 4. — L. Guidonia, 

 Swartz, Prod. 83. — Samyda icosandra, Fl. Ind. Occ. ejusd. 1962. 



HAB. Mountains near the sea, at the west end of the Island. 

 — Sw. 



FL. ? 



A tree, 15-20 feet in height. Leaves alternate, towards 

 the ends of the branches, oblong, acuminate, serrated, nerved, 

 pubescent : petiole terete. Peduncles terminal, several together, 

 an inch in length, one-flowered, pubescent. Squamules ovate, 

 ferruginous, hirsute, at the base of the peduncles. Flowers 

 white. Calycine sepals 5, rarely 4, concave, persistenti-mares- 

 cent. Petals 0. The stamens, according to Swartz, are 20 in 

 number, and are inserted on a very short cup-shaped nectary, 

 with twenty short truncated yellow bodies alternating with 

 them. Ovary subrotund, green, slightly villous : style very 

 short or : stigma capitate. Capsule size of a nutmeg, fleshy, 

 subrotund, umbilicated with the persistent stigma, obtusely 3- 

 gonal, 1-celled, 3-valved, many-seeded, green, pubescent : seeds 

 many, oblong, nestling in a pulpy arilhis. 



* The average importation of Arnotta into Great Britain, for five years, 

 terminating" in 1833, was, 1,074 casks, each weighing from three to fonr and 

 a half cwt.— l'c'ffe/able Sabstances : Materials fur Maraifaciureii, I^ond. 

 1833. 



