98 TILIACE.E. 



nosus, Mac/. ! — A shrub, 2'-6' high : leaves l"-2" long, variable in shape, down, thickness 

 of veins, and regularity of crenatures ; sepals tomentose, 3'" long ; capsule 6'" long, 2"'-3" ' 

 thick, nearly as long as the pedicel. — Hab. Jamaica!, Mac/., Al., Wils.; Bahamas 1, 

 Swains. ; [Cuba !, Portorico !, S. Thomas !, S. Croix !, S. Martin] : chiefly on the seacoast. 



3. MUNTINGIA, L. 



Sepals 5 (-7). Petals 5 (-7). Stamens indefinite, distinct. Ovary 5 (4-6) -celled : 

 stigma sessile, pyramidal, with as many angles. Pericarp baccate : seeds very numerous, 

 minute, ovoid, aflixed to laminar placentas, which divide the cells ; embryo cylindrical, axile, 

 with the cotyledons nearly equalling the radicle. — A tree or shrub ; pedicels axillary, fas- 

 cicled or solitary ; flowers white. 



The pedicels are enlarged at the top into a sort of disc, which has been taken for a calyx- 

 tube, but is persistent. 



15. M. Calabura, L.— SI. t. 194; Jacq. Amer. Pict. t. 158; Tuss. Fl. 4. t. 21 ; 

 Desc. Fl. 5. t. 368. — A low tree, 10'-30' high, sometimes reduced to a dwarfish shrub; 

 branches villous or glandular, leafy ; leaves 6"-2" long, oblong, or oblong-lanceolate, acumi- 

 nate, semicordate at the base, velvety above, hoary-tomentose beneath : petiole 3"'-l"' long, 

 nearly equalling the linear stipules; pedicels l'-lj" long; petals 6"' long, obovate, scarcely 

 exceeding the filiform point of the lanceolate sepals ; torus hairy ; berry globose, red, 6"'-8"' 

 diam. 



a. Branches covered with glands ; leaves oblong, much exceeding the pedicels. 



P. trinitensis, branches villous, not glandular; leaves oblong-lanceolate, twice the length 

 of the pedicels. 



Hab. Jamaica !, Mac/., Al., March, Wils., common in the lower hills (o) ; Trinidad !, 

 Pd., Cr. 08) ; [Haiti !; Mexico ! to Ecuador !, and equatorial Brazil !]. 



Tkibe II. SLOANFJU. — Sepals connate at the base (or in the inner whorl distinct). 

 Anthers oblong, or linear: connective produced beyond the cells. 



4. APEIBA, Aubl. 



Calyx deeply 5 (-4) -partite. Petals 5 (-4). Stamens indefinite : anthers oblong, in trorse, 

 produced above the cells into afoliaceous point. Ovary 8- or many-celled : ovules indefinite ; 

 style simple, with an enlarged, incurved stigma. Capsule echinate, or muricate : cells pulpy. 

 — Trees or shrubs ; leaves alternate ; inflorescence lateral, opposite to the leaves. 



16. A. Tibourbou, Aubl. Leaves oblong, acuminate, cordate at the base, serrate- 

 toothed, glabrate above, hirsute beneath with stellate down : petioles and branchlets villous ; 

 peduncles few-flowered; calyx -segments lanceolate, spreading, glabrous internally, densely 

 hirsute externally, exceeding the obovate petals ; exterior series of stamens connate at the 

 base; style exserted ; ovary 20-10-locular ; "capsule echinate." — Aubl. I. 213. — A shrub, 

 or low tree, 8'-10' high; leaves 6"-8" long; flowers golden-yellow, highly fragrant (Pd.) ; 

 calyx 6"'-8 m long ; stamens multiserial : appendage of anthers pointed or emarginate, half 

 the length of the cells, which open first at the adnate top and at length by longitudinal 

 fissures ; " capsule depressed, orbicular, dehiscent at the base, 3"— 4" diam." — Hab. S. 

 Yiucent!, Guild.; Trinidad!, Lockh., Cr., near Fort George; [Mexico!, Panama!, New 

 Granada ! (chiefly in hot savannahs : Pd), Guiana !, Brazil ! as far as Minas Geraes !]. 



5. SLOANEA, L. 



Calyx-segments 4-5-8, uni-biseriate. Petals 0. Stamens indefinite : anthers elongated, 

 comiculate at the top. Ovary 4-5-locular : ovules several in each cell ; style simple or di- 

 vided at the top. Capsule woody, echinate, loculicidal : seeds arillate. Embryo straight, 

 with large, subcarnose cotyledons: albumen thin. — Trees; leaves alternate; inflorescence 

 axillary. 



This genus is remarkable from exhibiting in several species structural exceptions from the 

 otherwise universal character of the Order, namely, a persistent calyx in S. sinemariensis, 

 and monadelphous stamens in S. synandra, Spruce, MSS. 



17. S. jamaicensis, Hook. .' Leaves oblong, acuminate, subentire, glabrous: stipules 



