and Jacguinia and two or three less known genera, to form a dis- 
tinct order, Theophrastacee ; allied on the one hand to Myrsi- 
nace@, on the other to Sapotacee. Our present species, and the 
only known one of the recognized, is a native of St. Domingo, 
and of course requires the heat of a stove to bring its blossoms 
to perfection. The fruit, so far as I am aware, does not ripen in 
our collections, but is well represented, from dried specimens, by 
Dr. Lindley, in the figure above quoted. 
Dusc. Our Plant of this, about six feet high, presents an 
unbranched woody stem, erect, rounded, clothed in the upper 
part between and below the leaves, with soft, subulate, blackish 
spines. Leaves from the apex of the stem, subverticillate, but 
in such a way that three are placed close together on the stem, 
sessile, oblong-lanceolate, 8-10 inches or a foot long, obtuse, 
coriaceous, penninerved, glabrous, waved at the margin, and 
bordered with very unequal spinous teeth. Flowers in corymbose 
racemes, terminal, collected into a head and sunk, as it were, 
in the hollow of the terminal mass of leaves. Each flower is 
dirty white, nearly an inch long. Culye campanulate, with five 
erect ovate subciliated lobes. Corolla broadly cylindraceo-cam- 
panulate, with five spreading rounded lobes. Near the base of 
the corolla within are five arched sca/es, with a little spine at 
the back, these alternate with the lobes of the corolla: and alter- 
nating with these are five stamens inserted at the very base of 
the corolla. Filaments subulate, curved. Anthers oblong, two- 
celled, with the counectivum extended beyond the point into an. 
oblong appendage. Ovary globose, containing several ovu/es on 
a globose central placenta. Style short. Stigma capitate. 
Fig. 1. Calyx and pistil. 2. Corolla, laid open. 3. Portion of the base of 
the corolla with the stamens removed. 4. Stamen. 5. Ovary, cut through trans- 
versely.—magnified. 
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