ME. J. MLEBQ OK" THE SCHOEPFIEJ3. 71 



suspensum; integument um crassiusculum, rugulosuui; cmtera non 



satis nota 1 . 

 Arbnscuhc aut suffrutiees, in America tropica vigentes ; rami pleru.nque 

 glabri; folia alterna, elliptica, petiolata ; pedunculi axillares, pauci 

 usque multiflori ; flores minores, calyculati. 



From these characters it will be seen that Schoepjia differs 

 from most of the genera of the Styracem in having a distinct 

 calycle around a free small calyx, in having isomerous stamens 

 opposite to the segments of the corolla, and differently formed 

 anthers ; it has also much smaller flowers and a dissimilar habit ; 

 but it accords in the main carpological features characteristic of 

 the Styraccce. 



1. Schoepfia. ABBORESCENS, It. Sf tick. Syst. v. p. 100 ; Lam. 



Diet vi. p. 732; DO. Prodr. iv. p. 319, xiv. p. 022 (in nota). 



Ilafn. li. 



p. 206, tab. G ; Symb. fasc. iii. p. 30. — Schopfia Schreberi, Lam. 

 lUust. ii. p. 51. — Schoepfia americana, Wilhl. Sp. PL i. p. 990. 

 In Antillis : v. s. in herb. Hook. Jamaica (Purdic), Antigua 

 (Nicholson 95), Dominica {Imray 201). 



A fragrant shrub 8-10 feet high ; branches terete, glabrous, 

 with axils 4-0 lines apart ; leaves ovate-oblong, suddenly nar- 

 rowed at the base upon the petiole, obtusely acuminate, entire, 

 glabrous, sometimes plicately falcate, pale green above, paler 

 beneath, with proininulent midrib and immersed fine nerves, with 



reticulated veins, 1-2| in. long, 1-1| in. broad, on suleate pe- 

 tioles 3 lines long ; inflorescence very short, solitary or geminate in 

 the axils ; peduncle % line long, bearing 7 flowers on pedicels 1-2 



lines long; calycle and calyx free, unequally 5-cleft, ciliate, 1 line 

 long ; corolla altogether 2i lines long, tube urceolate, adhering at 



its base to the ovary, free above, broadish cylindrical, half-cleft 

 into 5 oblong reflexed segments ; stamens 5, opposite to and 

 shorter than the segments ; style 3-sulcate ; stigma capitately 3- 

 lobed ; disk epigynous, elevated into a large pulvinate body which 

 is fungous and hollow within ; ovary half trilocular at the base, 

 unilocular above, cell extending within the disk ; placenta central, 



1 I met with only one immature seed, covered by a rugose thick integument, 

 where the albumen was not yet developed. Do Candolle (Proclr. iv. 319) 

 describes also a single seed with the albumen and embryo perfected ; but this 

 probablv refers to Wallich's description and figure of the Asiatic species. 



