_CANELLA ALBA. ORD. XL. Oleracece. 695 
obtuse, entire, of a dark shining green hue, and thick like those of 
‘the laurel: the flowers are small, seldom opening, of a violet 
colour, and grow in clusters at the tops of the branches upon 
divided footstalks: the calyx is monophyllus, divided nearly to its 
base into three lobes, which are roundish, concave, incumbent, 
green, smooth, membranous, and persistent: the corolla is com- 
posed of five petals, which are much longer than the calyx, 
sessile, oblong, concave, erect, and two of them are somewhat 
narrower than the other three: the nectary is pitcher-shaped, of 
the length of the petals, and supports the anthere instead of 
filaments, which are wanting: the anthera: are twenty-one, linear, 
parallel, distinct, single valved, and fixed longitudinally to’ the 
nectary: the germen is ovate, placed above the insertion of the 
corolla, and supports a cylindrical style, furnished with two obttse 
rough convex stigmata: the fruit is an oblong berry, ro haat 
four $idiveyithaped seeds of unequal size.* 
It appears a little surprising, that the Canella, which is a native 
of the West Indies, and of which figures have been given by 
Plukenet, Sloane, Catesby, Browne,* and others, should have been 
generally confounded with the tree which piri the eg 
winteranus: even: the younge 12 0 -deseribes this tr 
ia, ciel: a epeckesh in the atueee of 
ieestee has wekiowhedgéd that he could not discover how far it 
differed from the Drimys, or Wintera of Murray.” The present 
* “The whole tree (according to Dr. Swartz) is very aromatic, and when in 
blossom perfumes the whole neighbourhood. The flowers dried, and softened 
again in warm water, have a fragrant odour, nearly approaching to that of musk. 
The leaves have a strong smell of laurel. The berrics, after having been some 
time green, turn bluey and become at last of a black glossy colour, and haye a 
faint aromatic taste and smell. They are, when ripe, as well as the fruit of several 
kinds of laurel, very agreeable to the WWhite-bellicd and Bald-paie Pigeons, 
(Columba Jamaicensts & leucocephala) which feeding greedily upon them acquire 
that peculiar flavour so much admired in the places where they are found.” I. c. 
* Swartz observes, that the only tolerable figure among these is that of Browne, I. c. 
> <6 Quantum differat a genere Drimys nondum bene scie.” Supp. p. 247. 
