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19. S. serrulata, L. Leaves soft, obloog or elliptical, serrate, pubescent or glabrate 

 above, velvety beneath ; flowers campanulate, pubescent ; stamens 10-12. — Plum. ed. Burm. 

 t. 146. f. 2 ; Bot. Mag. t. 550. — S. pubescens, L., jiartim. S. rosea, Sims : the form with 

 red and fascicled flowers. — A shrub ; leaves 2"-4" long, variable in being pointed or blunt, 

 in the size and number of the mucrouate serratures, and in the down of the upper side ; 

 flowers solitary or fascicled; calyx white or red, 6'"-8'" long: lobes blunt. — Hab. Ja- 

 maica ! : March, in the mountains ; S. Vincent ; Trinidad ! : Sieb. Mb. Trim. 46 ; [Haiti]. 



10. SADYMIA, Gr. 

 (Samydse sp., Sw.) 



Calyx 5-fid, corolline : lobes imbricate. Petals 0. Stamens definite, 10, distinct, all 

 fertile, perigynous : filaments very short, inserted upon the throat of the calyx-tube ; anthers 

 oblong. Ovary unilocular, with 3 (-4) placentas : stigma peltate, subsessile. " Pericarp 

 fleshy, dehiscent : seeds arillatc." — A shrub ; leaves of Casearia : stipules minute; flowers 

 axillary, solitary, subsessile. 



21. S. villosa, Gr. — Samyda, Sw.! — A low, pubescent shrub; leaves (2"-3" long, 

 8"'-12'" broad) oblong, or elliptical, pointed, soft, hairy on both sides, and shaggy with a 

 rusty down on the nerves beneath, either subentire or serrate, with the serratures bluntish, 

 shortly petioled : pellucid dots numerous, lines rare ; flowers rather small (2'" long), pubes- 

 cent, "w^hite;" calyx 5-fid to the middle, infundibuliform : lobes oblong, blunt, furnished 

 at the base and above the staminal insertion-line with a few small glands; anthers oblong, 

 yellow, scarcely exceeded by the calyx-lobes. — Hab. Jamaica!, in the mountains: Sw. 



XV. LACISTEME.E. 



Flowers amentaceous, apetalous. Calyx 4(-6)-\>artite, corolline. Stamen single, hypo- 

 gynous, inserted within a disc. Pistil paracarpous. Embryo included in the axis of fleshy 

 endosperm : cotyledons foliaceous. — Woody plants ; leaves not divided, dotted with minute 

 ■points : stipules deciduous ; catkins axillary ; bracts furnished with 2-4 accessory, lateral 

 bracteoles. 



1. LACISTEMA, Sw. 



Bracts including a single, hermaphrodite flower : bracteoles 2. Anther-cells distinct. 

 Pericarp baccate, not dehiscent. — Shrubs or trees. 



1. Ii. myricoides, Sw. ! Leaves elliptical-oblong, glabrous, quite entire ; catkins 

 sessile, aggregate, equalling the petiole; stigmas 2-3, sessile. — Act. Helvet. 7. t. 10; Sw. 

 Pi. t. 21 : flos. Rudy. Guian. t. 4. Piper aggregatum, Berg. P. fasciculare, Rudg. — 

 A shrub or middle-sized tree ; leaves 4"-6" long : petiole 4"'-6'" long ; catkins 3-9, cylin- 

 drical ; bracts roundish, somewhat exceeded by the linear bracteoles ; calyx white : seg- 

 ments oblong-lanceolate, shorter than the bract ; disc membranaceous, cupuliform ; stamen 

 exceeding the bract ; anther bipartite : divisions roundish, with a single, introrse cell ; 

 ovary ovoid, with 2-3 parietal placentas : stigmas linear, recurved, short ; ovules numerous ; 

 berry ovoid, 4'" long. — Hab. Jamaica!, Al., Wilt., March; Trinidad!, Lockh., Pd., Cr.; 

 [Cuba!; Panama! to Brazil!]. 



XVI. VIOLACE^. 



Stamens 5, hypogynous : anther-cells adnate, introrse, exceeded by the membranaceous 

 connective. Pistil paracarpous : placentas 3 ; style simple ; ovules usually anatropous. 

 Pericarp mostly dehiscent, medianicide. Embryo included in the axis of fleshy endosperm : 

 cotyledons mostly flat. — Leaves stipulate, involute during development. 



The Order contains an acrid, usually emetic principle, used in medicine, from Viola tri- 

 color and Ionidium strict urn. 



1. CORYNOSTYLIS, Mart. (1824.) 

 (Calyptrion, Ging. 1824.) 

 Sepals 5. Petals 5, asymmetrical: anterior long-spurred, two posterior small. Anthers 



