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the North-side of the Ishitul. It there grows to a great height, 

 with a straight thick stem. It is of some value as a timber 

 tree; being employed for making shingles, and for staves for 

 rum puncheons, and for boards for inside work. Tiie punclieons 

 made of this wood, require to be charred, previous to the rum 

 being placed in them. The stems were employed by Dampier, 

 for the masts of ships ; and the phinks have been, but not on 

 very certain authority, recommended in ship-building, as equal 

 in durability to oak. 



Jacquin states that an oil may be expressed from the fruit, 

 which is employed, according to his observation, by the natives 

 for their lamps. 



The name Santa Maria, was given, according to Barhani, to 

 this tree, from the juice which exudes from the stem, branches, 

 and even the leaves, constituting a valuable balsam, useful in 

 dressing wounds, known by the names of Green balsam, Marys 

 balsam, Calaba balsam, S)-c. The specific designation Calaba, 

 was the name by which the tree was known among the Caribs. 



IV. Canella. Canella. 



Calycine sepals 3, Petals 5, subcoriaceoiis glauco- 

 caerulous, during aestivation contorted. Stamens 

 united into a tube ; anthers 15. Stigmata 3. Berry 

 3-locuIar (sometimes from abortion 1-locular); locules 

 1-2 seeded. 



The name Canella was given to this tree, on account of the 

 resemblance of the pungent taste of its bark to the aromatic 

 flavour , of that of the Canella Cinnamon. 



1. Canella alba. PVinter^s Bark, or Laurel-leaved 



Canella. 



Arbor baccifera laurifolia aromatica, Sloane, II. 87. t. 191. 

 f. 2. — Canella foiiis oblongis obtusis nitidis, Browne, 275. t. 27. 

 f. 3. — C. alba, Swartz, Linn. Trans. I. 96. t. 8 — Gcertn. de 

 Fruct. I. 373. t. 77. 



HAB. Common in the lower woods, and on hills where the 

 white limestone prevails. In the neighbourhood of Drummond 

 Castle, Port- Royal. 



FL. August, September. 



A lofty tree, the stem straight, branching at the top : bran- 

 ches dichotomously dividing. The outer bark brownish, ash- 

 coloured ; inner thicker of a light colour. Leaves situated 

 towards the ends of the branchlets, sparse, petiolated, obovate, 

 slightly emarginate, entire, glabrous, obscurely nerved, 2 inches 

 long, and 1 broad : petiole short, plane above. Raceme ter- 

 minal, shorter than the leaf, compound, cymose ; peduncle 3- 

 gonal ; pedicel 3-gonal, \ of an incii in letigth, 1 -flowered ; 



