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pointed, glabrous: petiole short; peduncles filiform, glabrous, as long as or exceeding the 

 leaves, usually "i-fiuwered : flowers sessile; calyx-limb deeply 4-fid: lobes oblong-linear, 

 blunt, often unequal ; corolla-tube filiform, clavate above, hairy, 5-6 times as long as the 

 oblong bluut lobes; anthers included. — 12' high; leaves 12"'-6'", corolla-tube 5"'-6"' long. 

 A good West Indian specimen, without special locality, exists in Herb. Hook. : that I have 

 compared with the original one in the British Museum. Ch. spinosa, Jacq., has much longer 

 corolla-lobes and short peduncles. — Hab. Grenada !, Mafton, in hedges. 



34. CHIONE, DC. 



Calyx-tube clavate : limb short, 5-lobcd, persistent. Corolla shortly campanulate-infun- 

 dibular, 5-lobed : lobes roundish, imbricative. Stamens exserted : filaments inserted above 

 the corolla-base : anthers incumbent. Stigma capitate, minutely 2-lobed. Drupe 2-celled : 

 endocarp somewhat ruminate, with the cells distant, as narrow as the cylindrical seeds. — ■ 

 Glabrous trees or shrubs ; leaves leathery : stipules deciduous ; flowers in peduncled, ter- 

 minal, trichotomous, fastigiate cymes. 



91. C. glabra, DC. Leaves lanceolate-oblong, bluntisb, smooth above, veiny with deli- 

 cate veins beneath : stipules ovate-lanceolate ; cymes many-flowered : alar flowers subsessile ; 

 corolla 5-lobed to one-third ; anther linear, elongated, longer than the filaments. — Sacconia, 

 Endl. Psychotria megalosperma, V. sec. DC. Jacquinia venosa, Sw. ! — A timber-tree ; 

 leaves resembling those of Viburnum Tinus, variable in breadth, 4"-3" long ; calyx-limb £'" 

 long, repand with rounded lobes ; corolla 2'", anthers 1 %'" long ; drupe ellipsoidal-oblong, 

 truncate at the top, 8"'-6'" long. — Hab. Montserrat, Dominica!, Imr., S.Lucia!, A nders. ; 

 [Guadeloupe !, lib. Sw.']. In Cuba three new species of Chione were discovered by Wright. 



35. PHIALANTHUS, Gr. (n.g.). 



Calyx-tube clavate : limb 4-partite. Corolla shortly campanulate-infundibular, 4-lobed : 

 lobes ovate, blunt. Stamens exserted : filaments distinct, inserted near the corolla- base : 

 anthers ovoid, erect. Style simple : stigma bluntish. Drupe 2-celled : endocarp with a 

 thin dissepiment : seeds cylindrical. — A resinous-viscid, glabrous shrub; leaves small, vein- 

 less, revolute on the margin : stipules connate-sheathing within the petioles, persistent ; 

 flowers glomerate, in minute, sessile, axillary or lateral clusters. 



The character, though not yet quite complete, shows this genus to be nearly related to 

 Scolosanthus, while from its resinous excretions Stenostomum, sect. Laugeria, is analogous. 



92. P. myrtilloides, Gr. — Leaves spathulate or - obovate, 5"'-8'" long, shortly pe- 

 tioled : stipular sheath short, subtruncate, covered with resin ; calyx-tube f '" long : lobes as 

 long, spathulate-linear ; corolla 1'" long and broad, as long as the filaments ; ovary 2-celled : 

 ovules pendulous, single in each cell; style filiform, as long as the stamens. The drupe is 

 unripe, but a sketch (in Herb. Hook.) shows a structure analogous to that of Stenostomum. 

 — Hab. Bahamas !, Swains. 



36. SCOLOSANTHUS, V. 



Calyx-tube ellipsoidal-oblong: limb 4-partite.. Corolla salver-shaped: tube 4-gonal : 

 lobes 4, short, imbricative, 2 exterior. Stamens included : filaments monadelphous at the 

 base, free from the corolla-base, hairy below : anthers long, linear, erect. Style simple, with 

 the linear stigma-branches cohering. Drupe " 2-celled, or 1 -celled by abortion." — A glabrous 

 shrub, sometimes spinescent, and resembling in foliage Randia aculeata ; leaves leathrry, 

 shining, veinless, opposite, often 4-6fascicled by reduced axillary branches: stipules 

 short, sheathing at the base, deciduous, with the remaining sheath marcescent ; flowers 

 shortly pedicellate, clustered in the axils, purplish-yellow. 



93. G. versicolor, V. — Vahl, Eclog. t. 10: anafyt.— Ixora multiflora, Sw. — 2'-3' 

 high ; leaves obovate-roundish or elliptical, pointed or blunt, 8"'-2" long : midrib impressed 

 above' ; calyx-tube 1'" long : lobes much shorter, dentiform ; corolla 3'" long, uarrow , 

 drupe " white." — Hab. Jamaica !, Al., March; [Portorico, S. Croix]. 



37. STRUMPFIA, Jacq 

 Calyx-tube ovate : limb 5-partite, persistent. Corolla rotate, deeply 5-partite : segment* 



