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N. Ord. CANELLACE.E. Lindl., Veg. K, p. 442; Baill., Hist. PI. i 



(under Magnoliaceai) ; Le Maout & Dec., p. 243. 

 Genus Canella * P. Browne. B. & H. Gen., i, p. 121 ; Baill., 

 I.e.. p. 185; Miers, Contrib. Bob., i, p. 112. Species 2, 

 natives of the W. Indies, Florida, and Columbia. 



26. Canella alba, Murray, Linn. Syst. Veg., ed. 14, iv, p. 443 



(1784). 



White Wood. Wild Cinnamon (Jamaica). 



Syn. Winter an ia Canella, Linn. Canella Winterana, Gaertn. 



Figures. Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., i, t. 8, cop. in Woodv., t. 237, 

 Hayne, ix, t. 51, and Steph. & Ch., t. 66 ; Nees, t. 418 ; Baill., 1. c., figs. 

 211-215; Miers, 1. c., t. 23 A (seed). 



Description. An evergreen tree, reaching 30 or 40 feet in 

 height, and much branched above, with a silver-grey bark on the 

 young branches. Leaves numerous, alternate, without stipules, 

 shortly stalked, 2 5 inches long, oblong-ovate, blunt at the apex, 

 tapering at the base, quite entire, thick, smooth, shining above, 

 paler below, the younger ones with immersed pellucid glands. 

 Inflorescence consisting of small, much branched, terminal corymbs, 

 shorter than the leaves, the pedicels about as long as the flowers, 

 J inch, or a little more. Sepals 3, rounded, coriaceous, short, 

 persistent, strongly imbricated. Petals 5, two or three times as 

 long as the sepals, oblong, erect, fleshy, blunt, imbricated, the 2 

 innermost narrower, pale violet-coloured. Stamens hypogynous, 

 monadelphous, combined into a rather fleshy tube a little shorter 

 than the petals, anthers apparently 1 0, forming a ring of 20 closely 

 placed equal linear cells adnate to the outer surface of the tube, 

 extrorse, tube prolonged a little beyond the anther- cells, margin 

 entire. Pistil flask-shaped, sessile, smooth, pellucid-punctate 

 with immersed glands ; style short, thick ; stigma faintly bilobed 

 at about the level of the top of the staminal tube; ovary 1 -celled, 

 with 4 reniform ovules attached in pairs to 2 opposite parietal 



* Canella, from canela, the Spanish word for cinnamon. 



