|4 THALAMIFLORA. 



According to Browne, the wood, bark, and berries of this 

 tree have a warm bitter taste, resembling that of orange seed, 

 and are described as agreeable to the taste, and grateful to 

 the palate. The wild pigeons are said to feed much upon 

 the berries, and owe to them the delicate bitterish flavour, so 

 peculiar to them when they are in season. 



IV. GUATTERIA. Lancewood. 



Calyx 3-partite ; lobes ovate, subcordate, acute. 

 Petals 6, ovate, or obovate. Anthers cc, subsessile. 

 Carpels oo subbaccate, dry, coriaceous, ovate or sub- 

 globose, stipitate, 1 -seeded. De Cand. 



Trees or shrubs, natives of the warmer regions of both hemi- 

 spheres. 



* 1. Guatteria virgata. Common Lancewood. 



Leaves ovate acuminate very glabrous sub-sessile, 

 peduncles axillary solitary 1 -flowered, berries substi- 

 pitate coriaceous ovoid slightly obtuse. 



Uvaria lanceolata, Swartz, Prod. 87 U. virgata, Fl. Ltd. 



Occ. Q9 Dunal, Monogr. 131. t. 31. Guatteria virgata, De 

 Cand. Syst. I. 506. 



HAB. Native of mountain woods at the west end of the 

 Island. 



FL. ? 



A shrub, or a tree of moderate height : branches horizontally 

 diverging, patulous, terete, glabrous. Leaves alternate, very 

 shortly petiolate, ovato-lanceolate, acuminate with the apex ob- 

 tuse, glabrous, venose, rather stiff, an inch and a half in length. 

 Peduncles axillary, scarcely longer than the petioles, solitary, 

 squamulose, 1 -flowered. Flowers small, whitish, fragrant. 

 Calyx 3-partite ; lobes minute, orbiculate. Petals 6, subro- 

 tund ; the 3 outer larger than the 3 inner. Anthers 16 20, 

 subsessile, incumbent, incurved, white. Ovaries 8, oblong, 

 erect. Berries shortly stipitate, small, ovate. 



* 2. Guatteria laurifolia. Laurel-leaved Lancewood. 



Leaves oblong acuminate at both ends glabrous 

 shortly petiolate, peduncles axillary somewhat crowded 

 together, berries substipitate ovoid mucronate. 



Browne, 370 Uvaria laurifolia, Swartz, Fl. Ind. Occ. II. 

 1001 G. laurifolia, Dunal, Monogr. 132. t. 32. 



