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1. CANELLA, P. B. 



Siamlnal tuie ■without exterior scales : antliers 10, contiguous on the outside of the tube,' 

 and each dehiscent by two longitudinal fissures. Ovary with 2 (-3) parietal placentas, each 

 punctiform, situated below the middle of the wall, and provided with two collateral, campy- 

 iotropous ovules, which ascend from a pendulous funiculus ; style short, terminated with 

 3 (-3) globular, contiguous stigmas. Berry filled up by a gelatinous pulp, including a few 

 seeds : testa crustaceous j inner integument adhering to the fleshy endosperm ; embryo half 

 its length : radicle short, inferior. — ^A tree ; leaves glabrous ; corymbs terminal : flowers 

 numerous, violet, with yellow anthers. 

 / 1. C. alba, Murr. Leaves spathnlate, tapering towards the short petiole, rounded at 

 the top, paler beneath ; pedicels exceeding much the size of the flomer. — SI. t. 191. /. 2 ; < 

 P. Br. Jam. t. 27. f. 3 ; Sw. in Linn. Transact. 1. <. 8 ; Hayne, Ann. 9. t. 5. — Win- 

 terana CaneUa, L. C. laurifolia, Lodd. — A tree, 50-10' high ; leaves evergreen, 2"-3" long, 

 1" broad ; sepals 1'" long, broadly rounded, minutely ciliate, half the length of the erect, 

 obovate-oblong petals ; staminal tube equalling the included style, a little shorter than the 

 odorous corolla : anthers reaching from its top to the middle ; berry black, globose, 4'" diam. 

 (immature ovoid) ; seeds black, shining, orbieulax, impressed at the micropyle, 2'" diam., 

 convex on both sides. — Hab. Jamaica!, Hist., Wils., March, common in the woods of the 

 lowlands and lower hi11a ; Bahamas !, Barbadoes ! [Cuba I, S. Croix, Guadeloupe I, Mar- 

 tinique]. 



2. CINNAMODENDKON, Endk 



Staminal tuie encircled by five exterior, hypogynous, petaline scales, alternating with the 

 petals :' anthers 10-20, contiguous on the outside of the tube, and each dehiscent by two 

 longitudinal fissures. Ovary with 4 (-5) parietal placentas, each longitudinal : ovules inde- 

 finite, horizontal, campylotropous, provided with two iuteguments ; style short, terminated 

 with 4 (-5) globular, contiguous stigmas. Berry filled up by the growth of the placentas, at 

 length whoUy involving the numerous seeds : testa crustaceous ; ■ endosperm fleshy and oily : 

 embryo one-third its length. — ^Trees ; corymbs axillary, or at length lateral, contracted, 



2. C. corticosnm, Miersl Leaves eUiptical-oblong, rounded at the base, shortly pe- 

 tioled, pointleted or bluntish, green beneath ; pedicels as long as the flower ; petals ovate, 

 rounded at the top, red; petaline scales ellvptical-lanceolate. Hunt, not ciliate; anthers 

 16 (-20). — C. rubrum. Or. in lit. CaneUa alba, Ns. Bberm. — Alow, shrubby tree, 10'-15' 

 high ; leaves 2"-3" long, l"-2" broad : petiole enlarged at the top, not much exceeded by the 

 corymb, or equalling it j sepals and petals resembling those of Canella alia, their propor- 

 tions and those Of the staminal tube being the same : petaline scales half the length of the 

 staminal tube, erect, a little imbricated, reaching to the base of the anthers, and closely ap- 

 pressed to the filamental part ; ovules munerous : fascicuK rather long, pluriserial on each 

 pkcenta; berry globose-ovoid, 3"'-6"' long, 4"'-6"' diam., supported by the spreading 

 calyx, minutely apiculate by the persisteut stigmas : seeds ovoid, brown, shining, 1'" long 

 (not yet ripe in our specimens). — Hab. Jamaica!, Wils., March, in the higher mountain- 

 woods, S. Thomas in tiie V., S. John. 



XXXVI. MARCGRAAVlACEiE. 



Sepals imbricative, in several 2-3-leaved whorls. Stamens indefinite (-5) : anthers in- 

 trorse. Pistil paracarpous, with incomplete dissepiments : placentas multiovulate ; stigma 

 sessile, radiate : the single rays prominent or decurrent. Pericarp fleshy, dehiscent. Seeds 

 minute : embryo exalbuminons, straight, cylindrical ; radicle short. — ^Woody plants, usually 

 climling ; leaves alternate, simple, leathery, articulated at the iase, exstipulate ; flowers 

 centripetal: bracts cucullate.or clavate. 



An obsolete drug is prepared from the watery juice of Marcgraavia, which exudes copi- 

 ously from the out stem, 



1. NORANTEA, Auil. 

 's 7, two exterior smallerw Petals 6. Stamens ao-12 (-7): anthers linear, erect. 



