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CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOTANY. 
globosum, reticulatum. Ovarium superum, cylindricum, gla- 
brum, 1-loculare; ovula plurima, reuiformia, horizontalia, e 
sinu ventrali ad placentas lineares parietales ssepius 5 (rarius 
4) deinum incrassatas et carnosas appensa. Stylus crassus, 
ovario continuus et vix angustior, tubum stamineum attin- 
gens, vel paullulo ultra exsertus, brevissimus, obtusus : stig- 
mata seepius 5 (rarius 4) peltato-glaudulseforinia, margine 
fiuibriata, sunimo styli extus adnata. Bacca ovata, carnosa, 
calyce immutato suffulta, stylo breviter apiculata, 1-locularis, 
placentis parietalibus 5 carnosis prominulis axin non attin- 
gentibus seminifcris munita. Semina (circiter 10) in inucila- 
gineni condita, ad placentam per paria funiculo brevi borizon- 
taliter appensa, cum plurimis senii-abortivis mixta, clavato- 
reniformia, tuberculata, compressa, subnitida, granulata, hilo 
ventrali minusculo sub apicem notata : tunica externa [arillus) 
crystallino-crustacea, fragilis, fuscaj tunica intermedia {testa 
arillina) lievis, sub apicem apiculatum, versus hilum appensa, 
bine per sinum ventralem raphide loriformi percursa, crasso- 
membranacea : integumentum internum [tegmen) membra- 
naceum, subadhserente, chalaza majuscula ventrali notatum. 
Embryo in albumen carnosum copiosum 3-plo longius sum- 
mo versus faciem dorsalem excentrice reconditus, radicula 
summo attingens et bilo proxima, tereti, cotyledonibus vix 
latioribus acutis dorso parallebs cbalaza remotis 3-plo longiori. 
Arbores vel arbusculae Brasibenses et Antillame virescentes, ra- 
mosissimee ; folia ovata vel oblonga, coriacea, nitentia, pellucido- 
punctata, breviter petiolata, vernatione involutiva. Inflorescentia 
axillaris, racemosa, paueijiora, petiolo parum longior, floribus 
3 ad 6 pedicellatis, pedicelbs alternis, imo bractea obtusa ad- 
pressa donatis. 
1. Cinnamodendron axillare, Endl. Canella axillaris, Nees et 
Mart. Nov. Act. Acad. Cces. xii. 18. tab. 3 ; — arboreum, cortice 
glabro, albicante, transversim crebre rimoso et calloso ; fobis 
alternis, ovato-elbpticis, obtusiusculis, glabris, margine integro 
crenulatim undulato revoluto, supra nitidis, subtus palbdiori- 
bus, reticulato-venosis, crassis, coriaceis, petiolo brevi inferne 
carinato; racemis axillaribus petiolum paullo superantibus, 
saepius 3-floris, floribus parvis, pedicelbs puberubs, calyce 
:equilongis, imo 2-bracteatis, petabs exterioribus caimosis, 
interioribus tenuioribus fere aequabbus, pellucido-puuctatis, 
stylo paullo exserto, truncato. — Brasilia, ad San Pedro dos 
Indios, circa Cabo Frio, in Prov. Rio de Janeiro. — r. s. in hb. 
Hooker (Martins)*. 
* A representation of this plant will be seen in plate 24 a. 
