XLVIII, ROSACE® (OLIVER). 365 
Herbs (in Trop. Africa). Leaves digitate or pinnate. Calyx- 
lobes bracteolate. Stamens indefinite. Carpels , inserted 
on a convex receptacle, dry (§ Potentillee) . . . . . . 6. Porenriua. 
Herbs or trees. Leaves various. Calyx-tube fumnel-shaped, more or less narrowed 
at the throat over the free ovary. Stamens definite or indefinite. Carpels 1-5. 
Achene enclosed in calyx-tube ($ Poteriec). 
Herbs. Flowers minute, hermaphrodite. Calyx-lobes 2-seriate. 
Petals 0. Stamens usually 4. =... SS tT, A, 
Shrubby. Flowers minute, polygamous or dioicous. Petals 0. 
Calyx-lobes I-seriate . . . . 8. Crrrortia. 
Tree. Leaves pinnate. Flowers panicled, polygamous or dioi- 
cous. Calyx-lobes 2-seriate. Petals 0 or 5. Stamens . 9. Brayera. 
Shrubs. Leaves pinnate. Petals conspicuous, 5. Carpels , 
free, enclosed in the receptacle or calyx-tube which is con- 
stricted at the mouth (§ Rose). . . . . . . ~ «- «10. Rosa. 
Herbs. Leaves simple, lobed or cut. Carpels 5-10, more or 
less consolidated with the calyx-tube. Petals minute. 
Calyx-lobes bracteolate i 2 fe oe Le NeDRADAG 
1. CHRYSOBALANUS, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. 
Gen. Plant. i. 606. 
Calyx-tube turbinate, limb of 5 nearly equal imbricate segments. 
Petals 5, early deciduous; inserted in the mouth of the tube. Stamens 
15 or more, uniseriate, perigynous, all antheriferous or some ananthe- 
Tous; filaments (free or) united more or less at the base; anthers ovoid 
or roundish, 2-celled, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary sessile at the 
base of the calyx-tube, hirsute or glabrous, 1-celled with 2 erect ovules ; 
style basal. Fruit drupaceous; endocarp coriaceous or crustaceous, 
“iIndehiscent or 5—6-valved, adhering firmly to the mesocarp ;” seed 
solitary.—Small trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, simple, entire, 
glabrous. Stipules very small, caducous. Inflorescence in axillary 
and terminal paniculate or racemose silky or hoary-pubescent cymes ; 
flowers 1—1 in. diameter, white. 
A small genus, confined to Tropical Africa, and the warmer parts of the New World. 
Leaves broadly bounded or retuse at apex . . . «~~ « « ~ 1. O Lcaco. 
Leaves obtusely apiculate or broadly pointed . . . . . . « + 2 C. ellipticus, 
1. ©. Teaco, Linn. ; DC. Prod. ii. 525. A low diffuse shrub of 1-3 
ft. or varying to a small tree of 8 or 10 ft., almost wholly glabrous ex- 
cepting the hoary-tomentose flowers and peduncles. Leaves rather 
coriaceous, broadly elliptical or rotundate, rounded and entire at the 
apex to obovate-rotundate emarginate and obcordate, eee from 
13-84 in. long, 14-24 in. broad; petiole distinct, 1-2 lines. Panicu- 
late cymes terminal and occasionally prolonged beyond the leaves or 
axillary and usually falling short of or hardly exceeding them. Fruit 
the size of a plum, yellow, red, purple or whitish.—C. pellocarpus, Mey. 
Prim. FI. Esseq. 193 (distinguished as var. 8. pellocarpa by Dr. Hooker 
in Mart. Fl. Bras. Chrysobal. 7), C. orbicularis, Schum. et Thonn. PI. 
Guin. 232; C. luteus, Sabine, DC. Prod. ii. 526 ? 
