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pertia, Ns. /—A tree ; leaves pale, 12"-4" long, 3i"-2" broad : petiole 10"'-5"' long, 

 thickish, flat above ; pedicels spreading, V" long ; calyx 1£"' diam. — Hab. Dominica !, Imr., 

 in the mountains, S. Lucia!, Anders., S. Vincent !, Guild.; Trinidad (Sied.). 



26. A. argenteum, Gr. Branchlets and panicles powdery-sericeous ; leaves rigid, 

 chartaceous, lanceolate-oblong or oblong, pointed or bluntish, rounded at the tapering base, 

 glaucous and glabrous above, shining -silvery and early glabrate beneath : principal veins 

 12-20 on each side of the midrib, equidistant, costate, immersed above, prominent with 

 their sinuate arch beneath : veinlets reticulated, slightly prominulous beneath : petiole thick, 

 powdery-tonicntose ; panicles peduncled, S half as long as the leaf, $ shorter: pedicels 

 short, clavate ; flowers dioecious ; calyx- tube turbinate-campanulate, as long as the roundish 

 lobes ; anthers obovate-roundish, pubescent below the roundish, terminal valves : 3 interior 

 stamens biglaudular, sterile ; cupule truncate, half as long as the oval berry. — Oreodaphne 

 parviflora, PI. Carib. (non Ns.). — A high tree ; leaves pale, 16"-6"long, 5-1" broad : pe- 

 tiole 8"'-5'" long, half-cylindrical ; pedicels spreading, f " long : bracts deciduous ; calyx 1'" 

 diam. ; cupule cupuliform, verrucose, appressed with a thin, subrepand margin, distinct from 

 the pedicel, 4'" high, 5'" broad; berry 8'" long. — Hab. Dominica!, Imr.; [Guadeloupe!, in 

 the mountains]. 



10. CASSYTA, L. 



Calyx 6-fid, wholly persistent : tube at length baccate : exterior lobes shorter. Fertile 

 stamens 9 : anthers 2-celled. Nut included within the pervious calyx-tube. — Aphyllous, 

 herbaceous climbers, adhering by means of papilla ; flowers in small spikes. 



27. C. americana, Ns. Glabrous; spikes simple, peduncled : flowers distant, white ; 

 exterior stamens clavate. — Jacq. Amer. Pict. t. 116. — C. filiformis, Jacq. — Stems cordlike, 

 30'-40' long, running along savannah-grasses and shrubs ; flowers 1"', globose berries 3'" 

 diam. — Hab. Jamaica !, Pd., March ; Antigua !, Wullschl., S. Vincent !, Guild. ; Trinidad !, 

 Pd., Cr. : a slender form in savannahs ; [Mexico ! to Brazil 1]. 



11. HERNANDIA, I. 



Flowers ternate, central sessile ? , lateral pedicellate, <? . Calyx biseriate, J 6-partite, 

 3-androus : filaments biglandular ; ? supported by a cupuliform involucel, salver-shaped : 

 limb 8-partite. Drupe 8-costate, included within the bladder-like, inflated-globose, pervious 

 calyx-tube. — Trees ; leaves alternate ; cymes supported by a 4,-leaved involucre, corymbose. 



1. H. sonora, L. Leaves ovate, pointed, rounded beyond the peltate base, about as 

 long as the petiole.— Desc. Fl. 2. t. 143. — Leaves 6" long ; " flowers 3"' diam. ; bladder 

 \\" diam., yellow, twice as long as the drupe, with a terminal, roundish opening." — Hab. 

 S. Vincent !, Guild.; Trinidad !, Sieb. Tr. 84 ; [East Indies !, Pacific islands!]. 



Laurus Chlororylon, L. (SI. t. 197. f. 1 ; Br. Jam. t. 7- f. 1), a valuable Jimber-tree in 

 Jamaica !, Al., March, from the quoted figures is no Laurinea. Upon Nees's authority it 

 belongs to the Celasirinea {Ceanothus Chloroxylon, Ns.), but was omitted in that Order as 

 a doubtful plant. My specimens are mere leaf-branches, which from their 3-nerved leaves 

 had been compared with Cinnamomum, though they are alternate and stipulate. 



LXXVI. GAERYACEiE. 



Flowers apetalons, unisexual. Stamens alternate to 4 calyx-divisions. Ovary inferior, 

 simple : ovules 2, hanging from its top : stigmas 2, distinct, sessile. Pericarp baccate. 

 Embryo small, cylindrical, included in the top of a large albumen.— Shrubs ; leaves oppo- 

 site, exstipulate, entire, evergreen. 



1. FADYENIA, Endl. 



$ ■ Sepals cohering above. Stamens 4 : anthers large, oblong-linear. ? : Calyx-limb 

 abortive. Stigmas reflexed. Berry 1-seeded by abortion.— Rowers in aments, opposite, 

 single in the bracts. 



