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CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOTANY. 
Cnnella alba ; but its leaves are narrower, more lanceolate, con- 
siderably longer, and of a much paler green colour. The plant 
cultivated at Kew under the name of C. alba quite corresponds 
with that described by Don ; its leaves are 3|-4^ inches long, 
1-1^ inch broad, upon a much stouter petiole 4 lines in length ; 
the)'^ are tapering at both ends. 
2. Canella obtusifolia, n. sp. ; — ramulis teretibus, rugosis, cor- 
tice aromatico tectis ; foliis obovatis, apice rotundis, e medio 
versus petiolum cuneatis, integerrimis, supra nitidis, subtus 
pallidis, crassiusculis tenuiter anastomosanti-nervosis, pellu- 
cido-punctatis, margine revoluto, petiolo sub-brevi, tenui, 
semitereti, superne piano : corymbo paucifloro terminal!, folio 
multo breviori ; bacca minor!, ovata, stylo apiculata et calyce 
suffulta. — Maracaibo. — v. s. in hb. Mus. Paris (Flee, 720)*. 
, The specimen upon which the above species is founded has 
no flowers ; but there can be no doubt that it is really a Canella, 
because of its terminal flowers, while in the two species of Cin- 
namodendron the flowers are constantly axillary. The berry and 
seeds are also quite those of Canella, and differ in shape, size, 
and appearance from those of the genus just mentioned. The 
leaves are 2 to 2| inches long, including a petiole of 3 lines, and 
are 12-14 lines broad. The inflorescence is very much smaller 
fhan in the preceding species, w'here it forms a broad spreading 
])anicle, partly terminal, and partly axillary at the two ultimate 
leaves, rather more than an inch long, and 2 inches broad ; 
this panicle is ternarily branched in three or four subdivisions ; 
the first or main peduncle is 4 to 6 lines long ; the secondary 
pedicels are 3 lines, and the tertiary pedicels, each supporting a 
flower, are 4 lines in length. On the other hand, in C. obtusi- 
folia, the raceme is quite terminal, simple, few-flowered, and 
only 4 lines in length, the main peduncle being 2 lines, and' 
each pedicel line long, the berry being less in size than 
that in the preceding species ; it is 4 lines in length and 3 lines 
in diameter : the one I examined contained only two seeds, lying 
horizontally and superimposed, one apparently from each pla- 
centa, and filling the whole space of the cell, where they are 
surrounded by a small quantity of thin glutinous mucilage. 
The seeds are black and shining, and are constituted precisely 
as in the species before described. 
2. CiNNAMODENDRON. 
This genus was proposed by Eudlicherf for a Brazilian plant 
first described by Nees and Martins, under the name of Canella 
* This species, with analysis of its fruit and seed, will be shown in 
plate 23 b. t Gen. Plant. 5458. 
