NECTANDRA. 



fennel mixed with cloves according to Nees, of camphor according to 

 Martius ; its taste is aromatic, not hot. 



N. B. Another species, the Nectandra Puchury minor of Nees, 

 is said also to yield seeds having similar qualities ; its bark is de- 

 scribed as resembling Sassafras when fresh, but tasteless and scentless 

 when dry. The cotyledons smell like Balsam of Peru. It yields the 

 Sassafras nuts of the London shops according to Humboldt. 



DICYPELLIUM. 



Dioecious. Calyx deeply 6-parted, spread out, with equal 

 permanent segments. $ unknown. $ ; sterile stamens in 3 

 rows ; the 3 outer perfectly petaloid ; the 3 next petaloideo- 

 unguiculate, inflexed at the point, with 4 pits below the point ; 

 the 3 inner compressed, sessile, truncate, with 2 pits on each 

 side below the point and 2 glandular protuberances at the back. 

 Fruit dry, seated in the enlarged, fleshy, shrivelled calyx, and 

 among the enlarged hardened sterile stamens. — Inflorescence 

 simple few-flowered racemes. 



694. D. caryophyllatum Nees Laur. 344. — Persea caryophyl - 

 lacea Martius in Nees and Eberm. handb. ii. 435. Licaria gui- 

 anensis Anbl. guian. i. 313. t. 121. Bois de Rose French settlers 

 in Cayenne ; Licari Kanali Caribs. — Woods of Brazil, Guiana. 



A tree. Leaves alternate, oblong, tapered to a very fine point 

 which is nevertheless bluntish, acute at base, papery, smooth, netted 

 on the under side. Racemes 1 or 2 together at the base of a terminal 

 bud, from 1 to 1| inch long, their peduncle included, 3-6-flowered. 

 Fruit drupaceous, ovate, depressed at the apex and plaited in a stellate 

 manner. — Bark smelling of cloves, with a hot clove-like peppery taste, 

 and powerful tonic properties. Nees v. Esenbeck inquires whether this 

 may not be the " Linharea aromatica, Canella do Mato, Arrnda in 

 Kostej-'s travels, p. 493 ? " 



OREODAPHNE. 



Hermapnrodite. Dioecious or polygamous. Calyx 6-parted 

 or 6-cleft, nearly equal ; the limb eventually disappearing. Sta- 

 mens 9 ; anthers oblong, with narrow filaments, 4-celled, the 

 3 inner looking outwards. Sterile stamens in a fourth row, none, 

 or subulate, or incomplete. Fruit succulent, more or less im 

 mersed in a deep thick cup, formed out of the altered tube of 

 the calyx. — Flowers panicled or racemose, axillary, occasionally 

 umbellulate. 



695. O. opifera Nees Laurin. 390. — Ocotea opifera Mart, in 

 Buckn. repert. 1830. xxxv. 179. Feruss. bull. 1831. Jan. p. 63. 

 — Woods of Para, and the Rio negro. 



Leaves oblong, cuspidate, tapering into the petiole, silky on the 

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