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29. P. Antidesma, Sto. Leaflets 7-9, ovate4anceolate or lanceolate-elliptical, with a 

 bluutish point, glabrous or puberulous beneath, and glabrate ; racemes puberulous, filiform, 

 pendulous, twice or more exceeding the leaves : clusters somewhat distant ; petals 3, linear, 

 exceeded by the stamens ; berries ovoid, blunt at both ends.— SI. t. 208./. 2.— A shrub, 

 about 8' high ; leaflets papery, 4"-2" long : principal veins prominulous beneath ; racemes 

 l'-2' long; petals whitish-green, 1'" long; berries 4'"-5'" long, 3'" broad, scarlet, at length 

 black, shining. — Hab. Jamaica !, all coll., in mountain-thickets ; [Cuba !, Mexico I, Panama !, 

 New Granada!]. 



15. ALVARADOA, Liebm. 



Flowers dioecious. Calyx 5-partite, valvate. Petals (-5 ?). Stamens 5, alternate with 

 the calyx, inserted below the central disc : anthers 4-locular. " Ovary 2 (-3) -celled : cells 

 biovulate ;" styles 2 (-3), short, recurved. Pericarp loculicidal, samaroid-compressed (or 

 triangular, with a contracted commissure) : seeds solitary in each cell, erect, with the testa 

 membranaceous. Cotyledons flat, foliaceous : radicle inferior ! ; albumen almost none. — 

 Shrubs; leaves impari-pinnate : leaflets approximate, multijugal, alternating, shortly petiolu- 

 late, glaucous beneath ; flowers small, $ spinate, $ racemose. 



30. A. jamaicensis, Benth. (MS.). Leaflets 18-20-jugal, oblong, emarginate, gla- 

 brous, revolute on the margin ; stamens twice as long as the calyx ; capsules oval-roundish, 

 glabrous, as long as the puberulous pedicel. — Branches leafy at the top ; leaflets 10"'-6'" 

 long, 3'" broad, rounded or subcordate at the base, rigid : petiolule subglobose, J"' diam. ; 

 calyx \ m long j capsule 5'" long, 4'" broad, rounded at both ends. — Hab. Jamaica ! , Pd., 

 Al., March, on calcareous rocks, Union Hill, at 2000'. 



31. A. amorphoides, Liebm. Leaflets 12-16-jugal, oblong, emarginate, pubescent 

 beneath, flat on the margin ; stamens four times as long as the calyx ; capsules elliptical-lan- 

 ceolate, acuminate, puberulous, wAciliate. — A shrub, 6'-12'high; leaflets 8"'-5'" long, 4'" 

 broad, blunt at the base : petiolule V" long ; capsule 6'" long, 2'" broad, tapering at both 

 ends, a little longer than the pedicel. — Hab. Bahamas !, Swains.; [Mexico !, Nicaragua !]. 



L. ERICEiE. 



Stamens bi-uniseriate, mostly distinct from the corolla, which is usually sympetalous : 

 anthers dehiscent by pores or slits, furnished often with appendages : pollen mostly cruciate. 

 Pistil. compound, originally paracarpous : placentas contiguous in the middle, mostly multi- 

 ovulate : style usually simple. Embryo small, cylindrical, enclosed within a large endosperm. 

 — Woody plants (rarely herbaceous) ; leaves entire, exstipulale. 



Resinous and astringent principles prevail in this Order. The berries of Vaccinium meri- 

 dionale are eatable. 



Tribe I. CLETEB.EM — Petals distinct or nearly so, deciduous. Stigma S(-2)-fld. 

 Capsule loculicidal. — Buds devoid of scales. 



1. CLETHRA, l. 



Sepals and petals 5. Stamens 10, reflexed in the bud : cells diverging at the top, de- 

 hiscent by a terminal pore or introrse slit. Capsule 3-celled, many-seeded. — Shrubs or 

 trees ; flowers racemose, white : bracts deciduous. 



1. C. tinifolia, Sw. Branchlets and petioles rusty-villous ; leaves obovate-oblong or 

 oval, quite entire, or remotely denticulate, glabrous above, hoary-tomentose beneath : veins 

 lO-io" on each side ; racemes long, aggregate, hoary-tomentose : bracts filiform, as long at 

 or exceeded by the recurved pedicel; petals subciliate above ; anthers shortly mucronate at 

 the base : cells oblong, truncate at the large pore; style included. — SI. t. 198./. 2 (exclus. 

 fruct.). Br. Jam. t. 21. /. 1 (exclus. desc). — Tinns occidentalis, L. C. mexicana, DC. — 

 A timber-tree or shrub, 40'-2' high ; leaves either quite entire, or with glanduliform teeth 

 at the end of the excurrent veins ; pedicels 3"' long. — Hab. Jamaica !, Pd., Al., in woods ; 

 Trinidad !, Cr. ; [Mexico!, Guiana, Brazil]. 



2. C. bracteata Or. (n. sp.). Branchlets, inflorescence, and petioles rusty-villous ; 



