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reticulated, promiuulous chiefly above ; panicles large, as long as or exceeding the leaves ; 

 petals oval, as long as the longer stamens ; anthers roundish ; drupe ovoid. — Kth. Nov. 

 Gen. t. 710. Desc. Fl. 3. t. 211.— A. toxifera, W. A. pinnata, Kth. A. sylvatica, Sick. 

 Cub. (nonJacq.).— 6'-15' high; leaflets 5"-2" long, 2^-9'" broad; drupe 3 '"-4"' long, 

 2'" broad. -Hab. Jamaica !, all collect., common in the mountains ; [Cuba !, Venezuela !, 

 New Granada!]. 



Robinson's Jamaica species, quoted from Lunan in DC. Prodr., do not belong to this 

 Order. 



Tribe II. ANACARBIACEM— Ovary-cells 5-1 : ovules single in each cell. 



6. SPONDIAS, L. 



Flowers polygamous. Calyx 5-4-fid. Petals 5-4. Stamens 10-8 (-15), inserted 

 below an hypogynous disc. Ovary 5 (-3) -celled : cells all fertile : styles short, as many as 

 there are cells. Pericarp drupaceous, marked around the top with the distant rudiments of 

 the styles. — Trees ; leaves impari-pinnate, glabrous ; flowers racemose or panicled. 



9. S. lutea, L. Leaflets 3-8-jugal, petiolulate, ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, acuminate, 

 subentire or serrulate; racemes panicled, often exceeding the leaves ; drupe ovoid (2* long). 

 —SI. t. 219./. 1, 2. Tuss. Fl. 3. t. 28. Desc. Fl. 6. t. 397.— S. Monbiu, Jacq., cytherea, 

 Tuss., graveolens, Macf., Myrobalanus, Mey. !, Esseq. — A high tree ; panicle 6"-12* long : 

 flowers yellowish-white; drupe yellow. — Hajb. Jamaica!, Al., Wils., March, common; 

 S. Vincent !, Guild.; [Cuba to Venezuela, Panama !]. 



10. S. purpurea, L. ".Leaflets 8-10-jugal, shortly petiolulate, elliptical-oblong, 

 bluntish, usually serrate ; racemes simple, few-flowered, much shorter than the leaves ; 

 drupe obovoid (1" long)." SI. t. 219./. 3-5. Jacq. Amer. Pict. t. 131. Tuss. Fl. 3. t. 8. 

 Desc. Fl. 5. t. 336. — S. Myrobalanus, Jacq., cironella, Tuss., lutea, Macf. — " A low tree ; 

 leaves deciduous : racemes lateral ; flowers purplish ; drupe yellow or tinged with purple." 

 Hab. Jamaica {Jacq.), common ; [Cuba to New Granada]. 



7. RHUS, L. 



Calyx 5-partite or 5-lobed. Petals 5. Stamens as many, inserted into a perigynous 

 disc. Ovary 1-celled : ovule pendulous from an ascending, central funiculus : styles 3, or 

 stigmas subsessile, as many. Pericarp drupaceous, or dry, indehiscent. — Leaves impari- 

 pinnate, or B(-l)-foliolate ; flowers panicled, small. 



11. R. KEetopium, L. Leaflets 2 (3-l)-jugal, oval-roundish, emarginate or rounded 

 at the top, quite entire, long-petiolulate, glabrous ;J flowers hermaphrodite, corymbose : 

 corymbs in axillary, racemiform panicles ; calyx 5-lobed ; stigmas subsessile ; drupe ovoid- 

 oblong, scarlet.— SI. t. 199./. 3. Br. Jam. t. 13./ 3. Desc. Fl. 2. t. 79.— A tree, 15'- 

 40' high ; leaflets l*-li" long. — Hab. Jamaica !, all collect., common on limestone hilla ; 

 [Cuba]. 



8. COMOCLADIA, P. Br. 



Flowers polygamous. Calyx 3 (-4) -partite, coloured. Petals 3 (-4). Stamens as 

 many, inserted into a perigynous disc. Ovary of Rhus: stigmas 3, sessile. Pericarp 

 drupaceous. — Stem nearly simple ; leaves impari-pinnate, approximate at the top of the stem 

 or the branches; flowers dark-purple, small, fascicled, or ylomerate along the racemiform, 

 distant branches of a loose panicle. 



12. C. integrifolia, Jacq. Leaflets 8-10-Jugal, petiolulate, glabrous or glabrate 

 beneath quite entire, oblong, pointed, subtrnncate at the base, inferior decrescent, ovate ; 

 panicle puberulous or glabrate, as long as the leaves : flowers fascicled; drupe oblong. — SI. 

 t. 222. / 1. Besc. Fl. 2. t. 80.— Stem 10'-30' high ; leaves l'-2' long; flowers i>" long ; 

 drupes dark-purple. — Hab. Jamaica !, Bist., Pd., Al., March, common. 



13. C. propinqua, Kth. Leaflets 5-jugal, sessile, glabrate above, rusty-pilose beneath, 

 oblong, blunt, subtruncate at the base, entire, inferior smaller ; panicle rusty-pilose, as long 



as the leaves : flowers glomerate ; drupe —Leaves 6", flowers \'" long.— Hab. Jamaica !, 



March ; [Cuba]. 



