RHAMNE^. XXIX. Carpodetus. XXX. Sch^efferia. XXXT. Olinia, XXXIL DAPHNiniYLLUM, &c. 



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XXIX. CARPODETUS (from Kapiroc^ carpos^ a fruit, and panulate tube, and 5 or 6 blunt teeth. Petals 5, inserted in the 



hro^f detos^ tied ; there is a ring round the middle of the fruit calyx, alternating with the teeth, linear-lanceolate, permanent, 



resembhng a tie). Forst. gen. t. 17. D. C. prod, 2. p. 29. furnished with rather concave scales on the inside at the base. 



Lin. syst. Pentdndria^ Monogynia. Calyx with a turbinate Stamens 5 or 6, very short, inserted in the calyx ; anthers con- 

 tube, adnate to the ovary, and a 5-cleft limb ; lobes deciduous. cealed under the scales. Ovary free ? Style very short. Stigma 

 Petals 5, small, inserted in the calyx. Stamens very short; 

 anthers almost sessile. 



thickened, pentagonal. Fruit crowned by the calyx, 5-angled, 

 Style 1, fihform. Stigma depressed, 5-seeded. — A smooth, much branched shrub. Branches tetra- 

 gonal. Leaves ovate, opposite. Flowers white, in axillary })a- 



capitate. Berry dry, globose, 5-celled, 5-seeded, girded by the 

 tube of the calyx. 



20.) 



1 C. serra'tus (Forst. nov. gen. t. 17. Spreng. pug. I. p, 

 T? . G. Native of New Zealand. Leaves oblong, with 

 glandular serratures, puberulous above, pale, smooth, and netted 

 beneath. Peduncles opposite the leaves. This plant is very 

 little known. 



SerrateAiidisedi Carpodetus. Shrub 12 feet. 



Cult. See Willemetia for culture and propagation, p. S8. 



XXX. SCH.EFFE 



(in honour of James Christian 



Schaeffer, a German botanist, author of Botanica Expeditior in 

 1762). Jacq. amer. 259. D. C. prod. 2. p. 40. 



Lin. syst. Dice'cia, Tetrdndria. Flowers dioecious from 

 abortion. Calyx 4-parted, blunt, permanent under the fruit, 

 perliaps altogether free. Petals 4, alternating with the sepals. 

 Stamens 4, opposite the petals. Ovary 2-celled. Style short 

 or wanting. Stigmas 2. Berry dry, 2-parted, rarely 1-celled, 

 usually 2-celled ; cells 1 -seeded. Seeds erect. Albumen fleshy. 

 Embryo central, straight, flat. — Shrubs, with alternate, entire 

 leaves, and numerous small, axillary, stalked flowers. . . , i . i , i 



1 S. prute'sceks (Jacq. amer. 259,) style slender, 2-lobed at A tree, with scattered, oblong-lanceolate, entire, smooth, exsti- 



■i r.« — . < 1 IT -i ,,. . y . , _ - ■niil'ifck \c^r\\7C^c \\T\^^o\\ fir^ frmnnmic: npnpnfn. Kapp*nri« nvillnrtr 



nicies. 



1 O. cym6sa (Thunb. L c. and fl. cap. 194.) Tj . G. Native 

 of the Cape of Good Hope, on the western side of the Table 

 Mountain. Sideroxylum cym6sum, Lin. fil. suppl. 1. p. 152- 

 Flowers white, sweet-scented. 



C?/?«05C-flowered Olinia. Shrub 4 feet. 



Cult. This shrub will grow in a mixture of loam and sandy 

 peat, and ripened cuttings will root if planted in a pot of sand, 

 with a hand-glass placed over them. 



XXXIL DAPHNIPHYXLUM (from ^a^ve, daphne, the 

 Greek name for the laurel, and (f>vX\oPy phylloriy a leaf; in alki- 

 sion to the leaves resembling the laurel). Blum, bijdr. 1152. 



LiN. SYST. Dice'cia^ Hexa-Decdndria. Flowers dioecious. 

 Calyx inferior, small, crenulated. Corolla none. Male flowers, 

 with 6-10 short stamens, which are connate at the base. An- 

 thers erect, tetragonal. Female flowers with a 2-celled ovary, 

 with the cells containing 2 ovvda, and a bifid sessile stigma. Drupe 

 oval, baccate, crowned by the stigma containing a 1 -seeded 

 fibrous nut. Embryo minute, inverted in a fleshy albumen. 



the apex; petals blunt ; leaves ellipticaf, acuminated at both 



ends, and are, as well as the branches, smooth. T^ . S. Native 



of St, Domingo, Jamaica, Carthagena, and New Spain, in bushy 



places. S. completa, Swartz, fl. ind. occ. 1. p. 327. t. 7. f. a. 



rlowers white. Berries the size of a small pea, of a yellowish- 

 red colour. 



Var.(i^ huxifblia (D. C. prod. 2. p. 41.) leaves broad, ovate, 

 mucronate. Tj . S. Native of Jamaica. Sloan, hist. 2. p. 209. f. 1. 

 i^hruhhy Schaefferia. Clt. 1793. Shrub 6 feet. 



pulate leaves, which are glaucous beneath. Racemes axillary, 

 simple. 



1 D. glauce'scens (Blum, bijdr. 1153.) I2 • S. Native of 

 Java, on the higher mountains of Salak and Gede. 



Glaiwescent 'leaved Daphniphyllum. Tree. 



Cult, See Coupia for culture and propagation, p. 44. 



CE^. 



t Doubtful species. 



in important characters). R. Br. in Lin. trans. 1818. D. C. 

 prod. 2. p. 43. Brong. mem. brun. in ann. sclenc nat. par. 

 august, 1826, 



2 S. panicula'ta (Spreng. neue. entd. 3. p. 49.) petals con- Calyx adhering to the ovary (f. 8. G. g. H. «,), rarely free 



-- -^^iii.ui.ATA \^opreng. neue. enia. d. p. ^v,) petals con- 

 cave ; flowers panicled ; leaves spatulate, coriaceous, pubescent 

 beneath, as well as the branches. ^ . S. Native of Brazil. 

 I' lowers whitish. 



Panicled Schaefferia. Shrub. 



3 S. viride'scexs (Moc. et Sesse, fl. mex. icon. ined. D. C. 

 prod, 2. p. 41.) style none; stigmas 2, thick, sessile; petals 

 ^p"^l' ^ • S' Native of Mexico. Leaves almost like those 

 ^^ ^^ frutescens, but more blunt. Fruit globose. Younger 



petals greenish on the outside, but of a dirty-white on the 

 mside. ^ 



G'reenwA-flowered Schaefferia. Shrub 6 feet. 



(f. 8. C. h.\ 5-cleft (f. 8. B. h. K. c), or S-toothcd (f. 8. H. 6.), 

 imbricate in aestivation. Petals 5 (f. 8. G. 6. C. d.) imbricate, 

 inserted in the ovary, alternating with the segments of the calyx 



(f- 



G. 6,). Stamens 5 (f. 8. B. cZ.), alternating with the 



petals, epigynous ; anthers fixed by the back, bursting inwards, 



(S- 



Ovary half inferior 



obtuse. 



) 



(M 



(f. 8. F, l\ 1 (f 8. A. g.) -3-celled (f. 8. E. g.) ; cells 1 (f. 8. 

 C. g.) -2 (f. 8. E. g.) -seeded ; ovula suspended from the central 

 column of the ovary. Style simple or bifid (f. 8. D. /.). 



Stigm 



Fruit dry, bicoccous, or in- 



flo ", ^•^' Native of Mexico. Racemes lateral, many- 

 nr^r^f^^ T? ^^^^^ ^ between the stamens, or alternating with the 

 genus "^^^ globose. This will probably form a distinct 



■fiacewo^e-flowered Sch^fferia. Shrub. 



dehiscent, 1-sccded, inferior, or half inferior. Seeds with a 

 small embryo, located in the apex of a fleshy albumen, with short 

 cotyledons, and a long conical radicle. — Much branched, heath- 

 like shrubs, with small, smooth, or hardly pilose leaves, which 

 are usually callously-ustulate at the apex, stiff, quite entire. 



Cult rp "^y '"^ '^^"<*^"^i^'^* "^iiruu. are usually callously-ustulate at tne apex, stin, quite enure, 



and pronaitlnnl^ ^^r""^ of insignificant shrubs ; for the culture ^^ ^^^ j^^^^^^j i„ 5 ^^ ^^^^ branches. Flowers small, capi- 



■' ^ tate, or rarely panicled, spiked or terminal and solitary ; lieatls 



XXXI. OLrMTA Cii,^ „o c ^ • c • \ T-i T, • of flowers naked or involucrated with larger leaves; flowers 



•^ ..w, , ^^ ^^ C"*6 name of a town m Spam). Thunb. ,n "* "" ^' , . , , , i 



— t- -. - r ^ furnished with 3 bracteas at their base, lower bractea larger 



?""• *'"^^- 2. p. 1. and p. 4. D. C. prod. 2. p. 41. 



• ^^^T. Penta-Hexdndria, Monogynia. Calyx with a cam- than the rest, lateral ones opposite, smaller, or wanting. In 



