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scorpioid, 4'" long. <?. Flowers 3-4, one above the other, 2-3-bracteolate, shortly pedicel- 

 late, 1"' long ; calyx 5-partite : segments lanceolate ; petals reddish, lanceolate, cut at the 

 blunt top ; discal glands alternating with the petals ; stamens opposite the petals : filaments 

 slightly cohering at the base. $ : Flowers subsolitary, inferior, shortly pedicellate ; calyx 

 as in cj; petals none; ovary 3 -globose, villous: styles cut into linear, unequal branches at 

 the top ; capsule depressed, 2"' diam.; seeds $'" diam. — Hab. Bahamas !, Swains. 



Subtribe 5. ACALYPHEM. — Inflorescence centripetal, mostly racemose, or spicate: 6* 

 bracts usually several -flowered. Flowers apetalous, $ calyx valvate. Seeds globose or 

 ovoid: caruncle none, or obsolete. 



20. ACIDOTON, Sw. 



Flowers dioecious ("rarely monoecious on distinct branches"). Calyx $ 5-, ? 6(-5)- 

 partite. Stamens <x, 4-seriate, distinct, inserted upon a conical disc : anthers oblong, ex- 

 trorse, minutely 2-aristate. Style 3-fid : branches simple, thick, papillose. Capsule 3-coc- 

 cous. Seeds ecarunculate, ovoid, smooth. — A shrub ; leaves entire, stipulate ; racemes axil- 

 lary, <J contracted. 



70. A. urens, Sw.l—Sl. t. 83./. 1: leaves. Sw. Fl.fl 18: analyt. Baillon, Euph. 

 t. 18. f. 10, 11: stamens. — A. innocuus, Baill.f — 5-10' high; leaves oblong-lanceolate, 

 pointed, 3"-5" long, shortly petioled, quite entire, or repand, glabrous, shining above, with 

 reticulated veins, ciliate with stinging, deciduous hairs : stipules triangular-subulate, persis- 

 tent ; racemes hairy, J few-flowered : pedicels single, 4"'-6'" long ; $ racemes long, with 

 distant flowers : pedicels |'"— 1"' long ; calyx (2'" long) and capsule covered with stinging 

 hairs; seeds rusty. — Hab. Jamaica!, Pd., Al., March, in the limestone hills of the central 

 and western districts. 



21. ADELIA, L. (non P. Br., nee Juss.). 



Flowers dioecious. Calyx 5-partite. Stamens 12-15, distinct, inserted into the promi- 

 nulous centre of the perigynous disc : anthers ovoid-oblong, extrorse. ^Styles 3, cut into 

 many, bluntly filiform, short branches. Capsule 3-coccous. Seeds ecarunculate, globose, 

 smooth. — Shrub3 ; leaves quite entire : stipules deciduous : $ flowers fasciculate, in axil- 

 lary or lateral clusters, $ fasciculate or solitary, long -pedicellate. 



71. A. Ricinella, L. Leaves obovate or spathnlate, glabrous, subsessile ; clusters of 

 S flowers whitish-pubescent: pedicels as long as the globose bud; $ pedicels 3-1, as long 



as the leaves, glabrate, terminal on villous, abortive, bud-like branchlets, which are surrounded 

 by fasciculate leaves ; capsule and calyx pubescent. — A white-barked, erect shrub, 6'-10' high : 

 branches spreading, sometimes spinescent ; leaves 2"-l" long, minutely pellucid-dotted, char- 

 taceous, deciduous ; calyx 1'" long : segments ovate-lanceolate, with a bluntish point, reflexed 

 from the capsule ; seeds pale. — Hab. Jamaica !, Macfl, Pd., March, in the limestone districts 

 of Port Royal, in arid places of Westmoreland ; [Cuba !, at Matanzas]. 



22. BERNARDIA, P. Br. 



(Adelia, Juss. Tyria, Kl. ap. Endl., non Kl. Eric.) 



Flowers dioecious. Calyx: $ 3(-" 5 ") -partite; " ? 6-5-partite, biseriate." Stamens 

 15-20, distinct: interior central, mixed with some glands: anthers cruciate-globose, with 

 2 cells anterior, 2 posterior. "Styles 3, short, lacerate-crenate." Capsule 3-coccous. — 

 Shrubs ; leaves serrate, stipulate ; <? spikes amentiform, axillary : flowers sessile in the 

 axil of a bract, bracteolate ; " ? flowers few, or solitary, subterminal, S-braeteate." 



72. B. carpinifolia, Gr. Leaves ovate-oblong, with a bluntish point, obtusely serrate, 

 stellate-pubescent above, tomenlose beneath ; c? spikes as long as the petiole, sessile. — Juss. 

 Euph.fl 28: analyt.: differing by a 5-partite $ calyx, while in our specimens it is 3-par- 

 tite. — Adelia Bernardia, L., ex. synon. P. Br. — A tomentose shrub, 10'-2' high: habit of 

 Salix Caprea ; leaves 3"-l^" long, rounded at the base, tapering from the middle, bearing 

 usually 2 glands on the under side : primary veins distant, prominulous beneath : petiole 6'"- 

 3'" long, thickish, tomentose: stipules 1'" long, setaceous; J spikes 6"'-4'" long, tomen- 

 tose : bracts ovate, acute, including the globose flower : lateral braeteoles shorter, lanceolate ; 



