Tas. 4383. 
TETRAZYGIA ELaAGNOIDES. 
Lleagnus-like Tetrazygia. 
Nat. Ord. MeLastomace®.—Drcanpria Monoeynia. 
Gen. Char. Calycis tubus globosus urceolatusve, limbus ultra ovarium productus, 
persistens, breve 4-(5-)dentatus. Pet. 4 (5) obovata. Stam. 4—8 (10) aequalia. 
Aunthere \ineares basi obtuse apice 1-porose. Ovarium glabrum, Stylus fili- 
formis. Stigma punctiforme.  Capsula baceata 4-(5-)locularis.  Semina innu- 
mera cuneato-angulata, nitida, hilo linearii—Frutices Carid@i. Rami _petioli 
foliaque subtus albida furfuracea aut lepidota. Folia ovalia aut oblonga discolora 
3-nervia petiolata, Cyma trichotoma terminalis. Flores albi, ebracteolati. DC. 
(Sect. Octo-Decastemon.) 
TETRAZYGIA eleagnoides; ramis teretiusculis, petiolis foliisque subtus pube 
lepidota subpulverulenta adpressa albido-rufescentibus, foliis oblongo-ovatis 
acuminatis 3-nerviis subcoriaceis supra glabris, paniculo terminali, floribus 
3—5-meris, calycis urceolati limbo obsolete 4—5-dentato. 
TETRAZYGIA eleagnoides. Sw. Ind. Occ. v.2. p.815. Vahl, Ic. Pl. Am. v. 2. 
p.28. Rich. in Bonpl. Melast. t.13? De Cand. Prodr. v.3. p.172. Spreng. 
Syst. Veget. v. 2. p. 304. 
A West Indian plant, as are all the species of the genus. 
Our specimen was obligingly communicated from Syon House 
by Her Grace the Dowager Duchess of Northumberland, having 
been raised from Jamaica seeds. We have fine native specimens 
from Jamaica and also from Bahamas (with narrower leaves and 
Tore obtuse at the base). It is also found in the Danish West 
Indian islands. Had we only Swartz’s original description to 
appeal to, I should have no doubt of our Jamaica plant being 
the same with that of Swartz, except that the flowers are penta- 
merous, instead of tetramerous; but the figures quoted by 
De Candolle, do represent the leaves much smaller and more 
attenuated or acute at the base than any I have seen. In other 
respects they agree. It flowered in March. 
Descr. A moderately sized branching shruvd: with the 
— branches subterete, and they and the petioles and peduncles, 
calye and underside of the leaf, silvery and whitish, or pale 
Townish-green, from numerous minute, dense, furfuraceous 
JULY Ist, 1848. 
