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the North-side of the Island. It there grows to a great height, 
with a straight thick stem. It is of some value as a timber 
tree; being employed for making shingles, and for staves for 
rum puncheons, and for boards for inside work. The puncheons 
made of this wood, require to be charred, previous to the rum 
being placed in them. 'I he stems were employed by Dampier, 
for the masts of ships; and the planks have been, but not on 
very certain authority, recommended in ship-building, as equal 
in durability to oak. 
Jacquin states that an oil may be expressed from the fruit, 
which is employed, according to his observation, by the natives 
for their lamps. 
The name Sa?ita Maria , was given, according to Barham, to 
this tree, from the juice which exudes from the stem, branches, 
and even the leaves, constituting a valuable balsam, useful in 
dressing wounds, known by the names of Green balsam, Marys 
balsam, Calaba balsam, fyc. The specific designation Calada, 
was the name by which the tree was known among the Caribs. 
IV. Canella. Canella. 
Calycine sepals 3. Petals 5, subcoriaceous glauco- 
caerulous, during aestivation contorted. Stamens 
united into a tube ; anthers 15. Stigmata 3. Berry 
3-locular (sometimes from abortion 1 -locular); locules 
1-2 seeded. 
The name Canella was given to this tree, on account of the 
resemblance of the pungent taste of its bark to the aromatic 
flavour of that of the Canella Cinnamon. 
1 . Canella alba. T Vinter’s Bark , or Laurel-leaved 
Canella. 
Arbor baccifera laurifolia aromatiea, Sloane, II. 87. t. 191. 
f. 2 Canella foliis oblongis obtusis nitidis, Browne, 275. t. 27. 
f. 3. — C. alba, Swartz, Linn. Trans. I. 96. t. 8 — Gcertn. de 
Fruct. I. 373. t. 77. 
HAB. Common in the lower woods, and on hills where the 
white limestone prevails. In the neighbourhood of Drummond 
Castle, Port- Royal. 
FL. August, September. 
A lofty tree, the stem straight, branching at the top : bran- 
ches dichotomously dividing. The outer bark brownish, asli- 
coloured ; inner thicker of a light colour. Leaves situated 
towards the ends of the branchlets, sparse, petiolated, obovate, 
slightly emarginate, entire, glabrous, obscurely nerved, 2 inches 
long, and 1 broad : petiole short, plane above. Raceme ter- 
minal, shorter than the leaf, compound, cymose ; peduncle 3- 
gonal ; pedicel 3-gonal, ^ of an inch in length, l-flowered ; 
