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axillaris*, since which, nothing has been recorded respecting it. 
I have lately had an opportunity of examining that plant, and 
find the details above referred to sufficiently correct ; but the 
evidence I have now to communicate, regarding a second spe- 
cies, establishes beyond doubt the validity of the genus, and its 
close affinity to Canella. This second species has so mnch 
resemblance to Canella alba in its general characters, especially 
in the similar properties of its bark, that the two have been 
confounded together in commerce. It differs, however, in having 
axillary flowers, while in Canella they are terminal : they agree 
with one another in their odoriferous and aromatic qualities, in 
the number and form of their persistent sepals, in the union of 
their extrorse stamens into a monadelphous tube, in the number 
and shape of their anther-cells, and in the size and shape of their 
ovary and style; but Cinnamodendron differs from Canella in its 
rotate calyx and corolla, in the presence of an inner row of 
])etals,.iu a different stigma, in the number of its parietal pla- 
centations, in the great number of its ovules, and its much 
smaller and more numerous seeds. In the specimen I examined 
of Martins’s plant, I could not determine the number of its 
placentae, as the flowers were in bud, and the ovary consequently 
in a very early stage of development ; but in the J amaica species 
I have found that the placentations are generally 5, sometimes 
reduced to 4, the number of ovules being very considerable : in 
Canella, on the other hand, the placentae are constantly 2, and 
the number of ovules does not exceed 4, all of which, or some- 
times only 2, are matured into seeds. I have remodelled its 
generic characters in the following manner : — 
Cinnamodendron, Endl. (Char, reform.) Sepala 3, orbiculata, 
rotatim expansa, coriacea, margine ciliata, persistentia, aestiva- 
tione imbricata. Petala 10, biseriata; 5 exteriora oblonga, 
sepalis dimidio longiora, carnosa, expansa, sestivatione imbri- 
cata; 5 interiora membranacea, spathulato-oblonga, pellucido- 
punctata, exterioribus alterna et vix aequilonga, iisque erectiora: 
omnia decidua. Stamina in tubum cylindricum petalis aequi- 
longum monadelpha, tubo tenui e disco parvo scutelliformi 
hypogyno producto, longitudinaliter 10-nervio, pellucido- 
punctato, margine ultra antheras brenter porrecto et hinc 
brevissime 10-lobo, sinubus cum nervis alternantibus, lobis vix 
retusis ; antheree extrorsae, tubi dimidio lougitudine, locellis 20 
subaequalibus, dorso omniuo adnatis, linearibus, compresso-an- 
gustis, parallelis, sejunctis, rima media longitudinali 2-valvatim 
dehiscentibus, valvibus tenuibus nigro-punctulatis ; pollen 
* Nov. Act. Acad. Caes. xii. p. 18. tab. 3. 
