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soups, to heighten the flavour and to give a rich agreeable col- 
our. In Jamaica, a liquid preparation is usually kept for culi- 
nary purposes, made, by boiling the pulp, diffused in water, 
with sugar and salt, to the consistence of cream, which, if put 
into well-corked bottles, will keep for several years.* 
The bark ol the tree is well adapted for making cordage : 
and pieces of the wood are employed by the Indians to procure 
fire by friction. 
II. LiETIA. 
Calyx 5 -partite, coloured, marescent. Petals 4-5 
or none. Stamens indefinite in number, hypogynous : 
anthers roundish. Style 1 : stigma capitate. Cap- 
sule fleshy, 3-5 valved, globose, acuminated with the 
style : seeds very many, with an arillated pulpy pelli- 
cle. — De Cand. 
Named in honour of John de Laet of Antwerp. 
1. * Laetia? Guidonia. Terminal-flowered Lcetia. 
Flowers apetalous, peduncles terminal 1-Howered, 
leaves oblong acuminate pubescent. — De Cand. 
Guidonia, Browne, Jam. 240. t. 29. f. 4 L. Guidonia, 
Swartz, Prod. 83. — Samyda icosandra, FI. Lid. Occ. ejusd. 1962. 
HAB. Mountains near the sea, at the west end of the Island. 
— Sw. 
FL. ? 
A tree, 15-20 feet in height. Leaves alternate, towards 
the ends of the branches, oblong, acuminate, serrated, nerved, 
pubescent : petiole terete. Peduncles terminal, several together, 
an inch in length, one-flowered, pubescent. Squamules ovate, 
ferruginous, hirsute, at the base of the peduncles. Flowers 
white. Calycine sepals 5, rarely 4, concave, persistenti-mares- 
cent. Petals 0. The stamens, according to Swartz, are 20 in 
number, and are inserted on a very short cup-shaped nectary, 
with twenty short truncated yellow bodies alternating with 
them. Ovary subrotund, green, slightly villous : style very 
short or 0 : stigma capitate. Capsule size of a nutmeg, fleshy, 
subrotund, umbilicated with the persistent stigma, obtusely 3- 
gonal, 1 -celled, 3-valved, many-seeded, green, pubescent : seeds 
many, oblong, nestling in a pulpy arillus. 
* The average importation of Arnotta into Great Britain, for five years, 
terminating in 1833, was, 1,074 casks, each weighing from three to tour and 
a half cwt .— Vegetable Substances: Materials for Manufactures. Load. 
1833. 
