Gordonia. CANELLACE.E. - TERNSTRCEMIACE.E. 



CANELLACEjE. 



12. Canella alba, Murr. 



White-wood. Cinnamon Bark. Wild Cinnamon. 



Southern keys of semi-tropical Florida ; in the West Indies. 



A small tree, often 10 metres in height, with a trunk 0.22 metre ii. 

 diameter; not rare. 



Wood very heavy, exceedingly hard, strong, close-grained, compact ; 

 medullary rays numerous, thin ; color dark reddish-brown, the sap-wood 

 light brown or yellow. 



The pale inner bark furnishes an aromatic stimulant and tonic, occa- 

 sionally employed in cases of debility of the digestive organs. 



GUTTIFER^. 



13. Clusia flava, L. 



West Indies; Key West prior to 1840. Not rediscovered by the 

 later explorers of the botany of semi-tropical Florida, and probably not 

 now growing spontaneously within the limits of the United States. 



Wood not examined. 



TERNSTRCEMIACE^. 



14. Gordonia Lasianthus, L. 

 Loblolly Bay. Tan Bay. 



Southern Virginia, south, near the coast, to Cape Malabar, and Cape 

 Romano, Florida, and along the Gulf coast to the valley of the Mississippi 

 River. 



A tree 15 to 24 metres in height, with a trunk often 0.45 to 0.50 

 metre in diameter ; low, sandy swamps. 



Wood light, soft, not strong, close-grained, compact, not durable; 

 medullary rays numerous, thin ; color light red, the sap-wood lighter ; 

 specific gravity, 0.4728; ash, 0.76; somewhat employed in cabinet- 

 making. 



15. Gordonia pubescens, L'Her. 



Franklinia. 



Near Fort Barrington, on the Altamaha River, Georgia. 

 A small tree, not rediscovered during the present century, and now 

 only known through cultivated specimens. 

 Wood not examined. 



