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soups, to heighten the flavour and to give a rich agreeable col- 

 our. In Jamaica, a liquid preparation is usually kept for culi- 

 nary purposes, made, by boiling the pulp, diffused in water, 

 with sugar and salt, to the consistence of cream, which, if put 

 into well-corked bottles, will keep for several years.* 



The bark of the tree is well adapted for making cordage : 

 and pieces of the wood are employed by the Indians to procure 

 fire by friction. 



II. L^TIA. 



Calyx 5-partite, coloured, marescent. Petals 4-5 

 or none. Stamens indefinite in number, hypogynous : 

 anthers roundish. Style 1 : stigma capitate. Cap- 

 sule fleshy, 3-5 valved, globose, acuminated with the 

 style : seeds very many, with an arillated pulpy pelli- 

 cle. De Cand. 



Named in honour of John de Laet of Antwerp. 



1 . * LaBtia ? Guidonia. Terminal-flowered Lcetia. 



Flowers apetalous, peduncles terminal 1 -flowered, 

 leaves oblong acuminate pubescent. De Cand. 



Guidonia, Broivne, Jam. 249. t. 29. f. 4. L. Guidonia, 

 Sirartz, Prod. 83. Samyda icosandra, Fl. Ind. Occ. ejusd. 1962. 



IIAB. Mountains near the sea, at the west end of the Island. 

 Sw. 



FL. ? 



A tree, 15-20 feet in height. Leaves alternate, towards 

 the ends of the branches, oblong, acuminate, serrated, nerved, 

 pubescent : petiole terete. Peduncles terminal, several together, 

 an inch in length, one-flowered, pubescent. Squamules ovate, 

 ferruginous, hirsute, at the base of the peduncles. Flowers 

 white. Calycine sepals 5, rarely 4, concave, persistenti-mares- 

 cent. Petals 0. The stamens, according to Swartz, are 20 in 

 number, and are inserted on a very short cup-shaped nectary, 

 with twenty short truncated yellow bodies alternating with 

 them. Ovary subrotund, green, slightly villous : style very 

 short or : stigma capitate. Capsule size of a nutmeg, fleshy, 

 subrotund, umbilicated with the persistent stigma, obtusely 3- 

 gonal, 1 -celled, 3-valved, many-seeded, green, pubescent : seeds 

 many, oblong, nestling in a pulpy arillus. 



* The average importation of Arnotta into Great Britain, for five years, 

 terminating in 1833, was, 1,074 casks, each weighing from three to four and 

 a half cwt. Vegetable Substances: Materials for Manufactures. Lond. 

 1833. 



