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N. Ord. CANELLACEJE. 



Genus Cmnamodendron,f Endliclier. B. & H., Gen., i, p. 121 ; 

 Baill., Hist. PL, i, p. 186; Miers, Contrib. Bot., i, p. 118. 

 Species 2, one Brazilian, the other West Indian. 



27. Cinnamodendron cortieosum, Miers in Ann. Nat. Hist. 

 ser. 3, i,p. 350 (1858). 



Red Canella, Mountain Cinnamon (Jamaica). 



Figures. Miers, Contrib. Bot., i, t. 24 b ; Schnitzlein, Iconographia, 

 t. 216*; Bot. Mag., t. 6120 (Sept., 1874); Fl. Brasil, fasc. 55, t. 105 



(fruit). 



Description. A small tree 10 15 feet high, but growing 

 sometimes to a far greater size (even it is said to 90 feet in 

 height),, with slender flexuose terete branches, and a smooth 

 brownish-grey bark, marked with small orange lenticels. Leaves 

 alternate, very shortly stalked, without stipules, oblong-lanceolate, 

 4 or 5 inches long by 1J If wide, acute at the base which is 

 often unequal-sided, rather attenuate at the apex, entire, the 

 margins somewhat reflexed, thick, smooth and shining on both 

 sides, paler and very minutely pellucid-punctate beneath. Flowers 

 about J inch long, in small clusters of 1 4 in the axils of the 

 leaves and scarcely exceeding the petioles, on short, slender, 

 slightly pubescent pedicels. Sepals 3, imbricate, rounded, fleshy, 

 slightly ciliate, yellowish-green, persistent. Petals in two rows, 

 outer row 5, erect, concave, imbricate, oblong, blunt, fleshy, 

 bright scarlet externally, orange and viscous within, the 2 outer- 

 most broader; inner row (corona, Eichler) 5 alternating with 

 those of the outer row and somewhat shorter than them, narrowly 

 spathulate-oblong, blunt, imbricate, thin, dotted with small trans- 

 parent immersed glands. Stamens completely combined into a 

 hypogynous, smooth, fleshy, cylindrical, pellucid-punctate tube 

 about as long as the inner petals, anthers as in Canella, but some 



f Cinnamodendron, Cinnamon-tree, in allusion to the qualities of the bark. 



