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glabrous, with minute pellucid dots, or at length opaque : veins delicate, running into arches ; 

 cymes glabrous, peduncled, once to thrice 3-fid : flowers pedicellate, single ; calyx ovoid, 

 mucronate, glabrous; petals 0; "berry subglobose." — Br. Jam. t.l.f.2. — Myrtus, L. 

 C. rigida, Mac/.! (non Sw.). — A shrub; leaves 2\"~2", calyx 2'" long; cymes usually 

 shorter than the leaves, a little exserted in Swartz's specimens : the pedicels, being 2"'-3'" 

 long, give an excellent character. — Hab. Jamaica!, Sw., Al., on limestone, from the sea- 

 shore to the interior districts ; [Haiti] . 



3. C. sericea, Gr. («. sp.). Eranchlets pubescent, cylindrical ; leaves oblong-lanceo- 

 late, acuminate, protracted into a narrow bluntish point, shining-glabrous above, sericeous 

 beneath, obsoletely pellucid-dotted, at length opaque : veins approximate, delicate, joined 

 near the margin ; cymes rusty -sericeous, fascicled, subsessile or shortly peduncled, simple, 

 reduced to bracteolate clusters, equalling or shortly exceeding the petiole ; calyx ovoid-sub- 

 globose, obsoletely mucronulate, rusty-pubescent ; petals ; berry globose. — A tree, afford- 

 ing walking-sticks (called Debasse: Cr.) : branchlets sericeous ; leaves 6"-3" long, \\"-\" 

 broad: down ferrugineous or hoary, persistent : petiole 3'" long ; bracteoles linear-oblong ; 

 nalyx |'"long: berry 3'" diam., 1-seeded. — Hab. Dominica 1, Imr. ; Trinidad!, Cr., Savo- 

 netta woods. 



** Branchlets 2-edged, bearing interpetiolar points. 



4. C. pallens, Gr. Branchlets glabrous, slightly 2-edged, with an interpetiolar point ; 

 leaves elliptical or elliptical-lanceolate, pointlcted, bluntish at the top, sericeous beneath, (or 

 at length glabrate,) nearly devoid of pellucid dots : veins delicate, joined near the margin ; 

 cymes rusty-sericeous, compound, spreading, trichotomous, nearly as high as broad, pedun- 

 cled : flowers sessile, ternate ; calyx obovoid-globose, rounded at the blunt top, sericeous ; 

 petals 0; berry globose. — C. Chytraculia, 5 grandiflora, Berg. — A shrub; leaves Z\"-\\", 

 calyx 1'" long. — Hab. Jamaica !, AL, near Kingston ; [Cuba !, Guadeloupe !]. 



5. C. rigida, Sw. Glabrous; branchlets 2-edged, bearing an interpetiolar point; leavesovate- 

 lanceolate, blunt, subacute at tbe petioled base, opaque : veins inconspicuous ; pedicels 3 (-1), 

 as long as the flower, spreading on the top of a lateral, usually elongated peduncle ; calyx 

 subglobose, minutely mucronate ; petals 0; berry " subglobose." — A low tree; 12-15' high: 

 branchlets dichotomous; leaves 10"'-12"' long, 5"'-4'" broad, rigid-chartaceous : petiole 1"' 

 long; peduncles opposite, inserted 1'" above the axils, 8"' (-2'") long ; calyx l'"diam. — Hab. 

 Jamaica (Sw.), on the highest peaks, Catherine Hill, S. Andrews; [Cuba!]. 



6. C. Wilsoni, Gr. (n. sp.). Glabrous; branchlets flat-2-edged, with longitudinal 

 wings, bearing an interpetiolar point , leaves elliptical, bluntish, acute at the subsessile, or 

 shortly petioled base, pellucid-dotted : veins inconspicuous ; pedicels hair-shaped, much 

 longer than the flower, geminate or solitary in the axils ; calyx ellipsoidal-linear, acuminate ; 

 petals ; berry . . . . — Allied to C. uniflora, Spring, which is said to have opaque leaves and 

 longer bracts. — A small tree; leaves 16"'-10*' long, 8" -5*' broad, chartaceous; pedicels 

 8"'-4'", calyx 1 £"' long, the latter scarcely *'" diam. — Hab. Jamaica !, Wils., Eastern peak 

 of John Crow Hill, near Bath, at 3000' alt., very rare. 



C. Tussaceana, Berg (C. rigida, Tuss. Fl. 3. t. 26), stated to grow in the hills of Jamaica, 

 is unknown to me. From its rough figure it would exhibit the large leaves and clustered 

 flowers of C. Chytraculia, the simple cymes of C. Syzigyum, and the calyx of C. pallens. 



2. MABLIERIA, Camb. 



Calyx closed, bursting above into irregular lobes. Petals 0-5. Ovary 2-3-cclled : cells 

 2-ovulate. Berry crowned with the lacerate calyx-limb. Embryo of Calyptranthes. — Flowers 

 cymose. 



7. M. elliptica, Gr. (n. sp.). Branchlets rusty-tomentose ; leaves elliptical, bluntly 

 point leted, opaque, shining-glabrous above, rusty-pubescent and tomentose on the midrib^ 

 beneath .- principal veins prominulous beneath, costate, joined near the margin by a^r?on- 

 tinuous arch ; cymes peduncled, rusty-tomentose, trichotomous, one-third as long^is the 

 leaves: flowers clustered, sessile; calyx ovoid, villous-tomentose : lobes 2-4, one-, larger; 

 petals ; berry globose, glabrate.-Leaves rigid, 4"-C" long, 2"-3" broad : petiole 3"'-4'" 

 long; calyx 1*"° long; ovary 2-celled : cells 2-ovulate: berry "fragrant, 3"' d*am., 1-2- 

 seeded : cotyledons contortnplicate.— Hab. Trinidad !, Cr., at S. Anns. 



