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new species of the unona*, which has the state- 

 liness of the uvaria zeylanica of Aublet-f-, and 

 which I formerly called uvaria febrifuga. It's 

 branches are straight, and rise in a pyramid, 

 nearly like the poplar of the Mississipi, falsely 

 called the Lombardy poplar. The tree is cele- 

 brated on account of the use made of it's aro- 

 matic fruit, the infusion of which is a powerful 

 febrifuge. The poor missionaries of the Oroo- 

 noko, who are afflicted with tertian fevers dur- 

 ing a great part of the year, seldom travel with- 



ish ducks, and which we found wild on the banks of the 

 Magdalena ? 



* Mr. Dunal, to whom we communicated our plants of 

 the annonaceous family, has described it by the name of unona 

 xylopioides. (Monogr. Anon., p. 117, tab. 21, Decandolle, 

 Regn. veget., vol. 1, p. 498.) See also vol. iii, of the present 

 work, p. 31, note. 



f This species of the Flor. Guy., vol. 2, tab. 243, often er- 

 roneously quoted as the waria zeylanica, is the unona aroma- 

 tica, Dun. (unona concolor, Willd.), the aromatic fruit of 

 which is known by the name of malaguette, or Ethiopian 

 pepper (Dunal, Anon., p. 46 and 112.) We must not con- 

 found the uvaria zeylanica of Aublet, which is said to be a 

 native of the coast of Africa, and which now grows wild in 

 French Guyana, the unona narum (uvaria zeylanica, La- 

 mark), and the uvaria zeylanica of Linneus. The last two 

 species are only shrubs. I am surprised that Gili speaks 

 of the arbol del burro of the Encaramada (the arara of the 

 Tamanacks) only as of timber for building. Saggio, vol. 1, 

 p. 163. 



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