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loua veins ■. ochrese rusty-villous ; racemes simple : pedicels fasciculate, longer than the flower ; 

 berry "ovoid-oblong." — Bot. Mag. t 3166. — A high, few-branched tree ; leaves with a lax 

 network of veins, 2"-6" diam. : petiole thick, 2"'-3'" long, adnate to the spreading, short 

 ochrea ; flowers small, greenish. — Hab. Antigua !, Wullschl., in mountain-woods ; [French 

 islands!, Guiana!]. 



6. C. latifolia, Lam. leaves roundish, glabrous : primary and secondary veins im- 

 mersed above, prominulous beneath : ochreee split, rounded ; racemes compound : pedicels 

 about as long as the flower, jointed above the middle; berry "ovoid." — Mart. Fl. Bras. 14. 

 /. 19. — A high tree ; leaves 24"-8" diam., shortly petioled : tertiary veins not prominulous ; 

 branches of the terminal panicle simple, spreading-erect ; calyx 1'", berry " 3'" " long. — 

 Hab. Trinidad !, Lockh., in woods ; [Guiana!]. 



** Calyx $-fd; ochrea tubular. 



7. C. leoganensis, Jacq. Leaves roundish or ovate-roundish, blunt or obtusate, 

 cordate or rounded at the base, glabrous, 'polished on both sides with the primary veins slightly 

 prominulous beneath ; racemes simple, virgate -. pedicels single or ternate, jointed below the 

 top, about as long as the flower , calyx-tube turbinate ; stamens exserted ; berry . . . . — 

 Jacq. Amer. Pift. t. 260./. 30 : a leaf. — C. flavescens, Jacq. (ib. t. 112 : with globose pur- 

 ple berries), is probably a narrow-leaved form of the same. — A shrub ; leaves 5"-2" diam. : 

 petiole 4"' long : ochrea; tubular, deciduous ; racemes peduncled, 6"-4" long : pedicels un- 

 equal, exceeding the bracts ; calyx \\'" diam., 5-fid to the middle. — Hab. Jamaica !, Pd., 

 March, Wils., on rocks near the sea ; [Haiti]. 



8. C. tenuifolia, L. {ex syn. P. Br.), Lam. Leaves smalt, elliptical, pointed (rarely 

 bluntish), rounded or subacute at the base, glabrous : veins reticulated, slightly prominulous, 

 chiefly beneath ; racemes simple, or 2-3-partite, erect : pedicels single, jointed below the 

 top, somewhat shorter than the flower ; calyx-tube ovato-conical ; stamens exserted ; berry 

 " 3-angular." — Br. Jam. t. 14. /. 3. — Linnaeus's observation in Amccn. Acad, does not 

 agree with Browne's plant, but may partly be referred to C. nivea, Jacq. Allied to G. 

 cubensis, Meisn. !, which has however smaller flowers. A low tree; leaves 3"-2" long, 

 20"'-12'" broad: petiole 8"'-4'" long : ochrese 6"'-4'" long, veinless, somewhat lax, deci- 

 duous ; racemes shortly peduncled, 4"-2" long : pedicels 1£"' long, much exserted, horizontal ; 

 calyx 2"' long : tube longer than the lobes. — Hab. Jamaica !, At., March, in the hilly, 

 interior districts. 



§ 2. Flowers very shortly pedicellate : pedicels equalling the minute bracts, jointed at the 

 base ; calyx 5-fid ; ochreee tubular, loose. 



9. C. Plumieri, Gr. Leaves broadly ovate-oblong, bluntish, usually cordate at the 

 base, glabrous : primary veins prominulous, chiefly beneath ; racemes compound at the base : 

 branches elongated, lax, spreading, or nodding : flowers single, somewhat distant ; pedicels 

 jointed at the base; berry large, ovate-conical. — Plum. Ed. Burnt, t. 146./. 1, quoted by 

 Swartz, but an uncertain synonym from its spikes being simple. — C. excoriata, Sw. {non 

 Jacq.). — Allied to C. paniculata, Meisn., but leaves larger and perfectly glabrous. An 

 arborescent shrub: bark whitish, excoriated ; leaves 12"-6" long, 8"-4" broad: secondary 

 veins delicate : petiole 1 V'-l" long ; ochreee 6'" long, veinless, truncate, deciduous ; panicle 

 subsessile, 3-9-partite, fastigiate : branches 6"-10" long, virgate : pedicels at length scarcely 

 i'" long, equalling the truncate bracts ; calyx-tube campanulate, a little shorter than the 

 rounded lobes •. diam. of the limb 3"'-4'" ; stamens exserted : anthers ovoid-oblong ; berry 

 solcate, rounded at the base, 8'"-6"' long, 4"'-3'" diam.— Hab. Jamaica !, Pd., At., March, 

 in mountain-woods. 



§ 3. Flowers pedicellate ; pedicels jointed at the top. 

 * Calyx 5 -fid ; pedicels exceeding the minute brads. 



10. C. Zebra, Gr. (». sp.). Leaves broad-elliptical, bluntish or apiculate, rounded or 

 minutely cmarginate at the base, glabrous, polished above: primary veins prominulous 

 beneath ; racemes simple, lax : pedicels jointed at the top ; calyx -tube ovate-semiglobose ; 

 stamens subincluded ; berry large, ovate-conical. — Allied to C. laurifolia, Jacq. A very 

 large timber-tree : wood variegated ; leaves 8"-5" long, 5"-3" broad, somewhat shining : 



