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than the inner. Stamens oo, inserted generally on a 

 globose receptacle. Carpels 2-15, shortly stipitate, 

 compressed, 1 -celled, 1-2-seeded, in some dehiscent, 

 in others subbaccate. Seeds obovate, shining, some- 

 times arillated. De Cand. 



Trees or shrubs, with the bark and fruit aromatic, natives of 

 the West Indies, and of the warmer regions of America Name, 

 abbreviated by Linnaeus, from XYLOPICRON, a name given by 

 Browne, and derived from the two Greek words uXoi/ mood, 

 and T/xgo;, bitter. 



* 1. Xylopia muricata. Muricated Bitter-wood. 



Leaves lanceolate acuminate strigose beneath, 

 bearded at the apex, peduncles many-flowered, car- 

 pels muricated. 



Xylopicron, Browne, 250. t. 5. f. 2. Xylopia frutescens, 

 Gartn. Fruct. I. 339. t. 69. f. 7. X. muricata, De Cand. Syst. 

 I. 499. 



H \B . Mountains in Sixteen-mile Walk. 



FL. ? 



A shrub : branches glabrous, virgate, stibtortuose. Leaves 

 shortly petiolate, nervose beneath, 3 inches and upwards long, 

 and about an inch broad. Peduncles short, branched, many- 

 flowered. Calyx 3 5-lobed. Petals lanceolate. Capsules 

 shortly stipitate, ovato-globose, punctato-muricated, coriaceous, 

 2-valved, bilocular, 2-seeded. De Cand. 



Browne calls this the smaller Bitter-wood, and states that he 

 found it at the foot of the mountains in Sixteen-mile Walk. It 

 does not appear to have been observed by any other Botanist. 



* 2. Xylopia glabra. Glabrous Bitter-wood. 



Leaves oblongo-ovate glabrous, peduncles 1 -flow- 

 ered solitary or two together, carpels smooth. 



Xylopicron foliis amplioribus nitidis, Browne, Jam. 251. 

 X. a'rbor Barbadensis, Pluk. Aim. 295. t. 238. f. 4,,Dunal, 

 Monogr. 121. t. 19. De Cand. Syst. I. 501. Prod. I. 92. 



HAB. Mountains behind Bull- bay. 



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A tree ; branches terete, glabrous; slightly punctulated. 

 Leaves very shortly petiolate, oval, acuminate with the apex 

 obtuse, glabrous, 2 inches long, and 1 broad. Peduncles brac- 

 teated. Calyx 3-fid, with the lobes very obtuse, glabrous. 

 Alabastra oblong, externally appresso-pubescent, 4-lines long. 



