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than the inner. Stamens co, inserted generally on a 
globose receptacle. Carpels 2-15, shortly stipitate, 
compressed, 1 -celled, 1-2-seeded, in some dehiscent, 
in others subbaccate. Seeds obovate, shining, some- 
times arillated. — De Cand. 
Trees or shrubs, with the hark and fruit aromatic, natives of 
the West Indies, and of the warmer regions of America Name , 
abbreviated by Linnaeus, from Xvlopicron, a name given by 
Browne, and derived from the two Greek words %vXov wood, 
and <v/xgos, bitter. 
* 1 . Xylopia muricata. Muricated Bitter -wood. 
Leaves lanceolate acuminate strigose beneath, 
bearded at the apex, peduncles many-flowered, car- 
pels muricated. 
Xylopicron, Browne, 250. t. 5. f. 2. — Xylopia frntescens, 
Gcertn. Fruct. I. 339. t. 69. f. 7. — X. muricata, De Cand. Sxjst. 
I. 499. 
HAB. Mountains in Sixteen-mile Walk. 
FL. ? 
A shrub : branches glabrous, virgate, subtortuose. Leaves 
shortly petiolate, nervose beneath, 3 inches and upwards long, 
and about an inch broad. Peduncles short, branched, many- 
flowered. Calyx 3 — 5-lobed. Petals lanceolate. Capsules 
shortly stipitate, ovato-globose, punetato-muricated, coriaceous, 
2-valved, bilocular, 2-seeded. — De Cand. 
Browne calls this the smaller Bitter-wood, and states that he 
found it at the foot of the mountains in Sixteen-mile Walk. It 
does not appear to have been observed by any other Botanist. 
* 2. Xylopia glabra. Glabrous Bitter-wood. 
Leaves oblongo-ovate glabrous, peduncles 1 -flow- 
ered solitary or two together, carpels smooth. 
Xylopicron foliis amplioribus nitidis, Broivne, Jam. 251. — 
X. arbor Barbadensis, Pink. Atm. 295. t. 238. f. 4. — Dunal, 
Monogr. 121. t. 19. — De Cand. Sgst. I. 501. — Prod. I. 92. 
HAB. Mountains behind Bull-bay. 
FL. ? 
A tree ; branches terete, glabrous, slightly punctulated. 
Leaves very shortly petiolate, oval, acuminate with the apex 
obtuse, glabrous, 2 inches long, and 1 broad. Peduncles brac- 
teated. Calyx 3-fid, with the lobes very obtuse, glabrous. 
Alabastra oblong, externally appresso-pubescent, 4-lines long. 
