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This is described as a middle-sized tree : its leaves are from 
1| to 2 inches long, and 14 to 15 lines broad, on a petiole 
3 lines long : the racemes are few-flowered, and scarcely measure 
more than 4 lines in length : the flowers, when ripe, are only 
one-third the size of those of Canella alba ; in the specimen 
above referred to they are in bud, but sufficiently advanced to 
make out the several pai’ts. I found the inner row of petals 
glabrous, not ciliated, as described in the ‘ Nova Acta,^ and equal 
in size to the outer row, not minute and squamiform ; the 
anther-cells also are lineai’, not ovate, in which respects they 
agree with the following species. The tree is called by the 
natives ‘ Hierba moeira do Sertao,^ as mentioned in Spix and 
Martins’s Travels (Reise, i. p. 83, ii. p. 336). 
2. Cinnamodendron corticosum, n. sp. ; — arboreum, biorgyale, 
ramosum, ramulis tenuiculis, flexuosis, lenticellis maculatis; 
foliis elongato-oblongis, utrinque acutiusculis, apice attenuatis, 
glaberrimis, integris, tenuiter anastomoso-nervosis et valde 
reticulatis, supra nitidis, subtus pallidioribus, et glanduloso- 
punctulatis, punctis porosis et minutissime pellucidis, margine 
revoluto, rachi petioloque brevi superne canaliculatis, infra 
carinatis ; racemulis axillaribus, brevibus, 3-4-floris, petiolo 
paullo longioribus, pedicellis striatis, puberulis, flore prse- 
cedentis 2-plo aut 3-plo majori; ovario 1-loculari, ovulis 
numerosissimis in placentis carnosis prominentibus 5 (rarius 
4), biseriatim affixis : stylo tubo sequilongo, stigmatibus 5 
(rarius 4) : bacca ovata, polysperma. — Ins. Jamaica apud 
Bath. — V. s. in hb. Cl. Dom. Hanbury^. 
This is a very distinct species, difiering from the preceding in 
the form and size of its leaves. I am greatly indebted to Daniel 
Hanbury, Esq., F.L.S., who placed his specimens in my hands 
for examination, and who afterwards kindly sent to Jamaica for 
samples of the flower and fruit preserved in alcohol, from which 
I have been enabled to complete the above details. Its bark has 
the same aromatic properties as that of Canella alba, from which 
it is scarcely distinguishable, both being collected and exported 
under the same name. Its leaves are 5-6 inches long, 1^-1 1 
inch broad, the petiole being 3-4 lines in length ; the raceme is 
only 4-6 lines long ; the berry is 6 lines in length, and 5 lines 
in diameter, containing about 10 seeds, which are much smaller 
than those of Canella, more reniform, much compressed, very 
rugose, and 1 line in length. 
From the foregoing details of the structure of the flowers and 
* Analytical details and a drawing of this species are given in plate 
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