4436. 
PACHYSTIGMA pTELEOIDES. 
Ptelea-leaved Pachystigma. 
Nat. Ord. Rutracr®.—PonLyanpRIA MoONOGYNIA. 
_ Gen. Char, Calyx subtriphyllus, sepalis concavis inzequalibus, sestivatione 
imbricatis, interiore majore, petalis conformi. Petala 4, libera, subrotunda, con- 
cava, alba, impunctata; estivatione imbricativa. Stamina plurima, sub-30, 
Libera, gynophoro magno carnoso biseriatim inserta. Filamenta subulata. Anthere 
ovales, biloculares, antice longitudinaliter dehiscentes. Ovariwm globosum, gyno- 
phoro impositum, 7-8-sulcatum, velutinum, 7-8-loculare, loculis biovulatis, 
stigmate magno carnoso 7-8-lobato deciduo coronatum. Capsula demum e cocculis 
8 (quibusdam abortientibus), stellatim dispositis, basi coalitis, abortu pleramque 
monospermis : epicarpio sicco subrugoso, dorso carina lata instructo ; endocarpio 
cartilagineo, demum soluto. Semen oblique ovatum.: Podospermum majusculum, 
carnosum, album.—Frutex sew Arbor humilis Jamaicensis, valde rAMOsUs ; 
ramulis cortice Levi viridi-fusco tectis. Folia alterna, exstipulata, longe petiolata, 
trifoliolata ; foliolis ovatis, acutis, integerrimis seu obsolete serratis, copiose pellu- 
cido-punctatis, petiolulatis, in petiolum articulatis, penninerviis ; pedunculis awil- 
laribus, folio sublongioribus, parce subtrichotome ramosis, pedicellis basi bracteolatis, 
bracteolis deciduis. Flores majusculi, fragrantes, albi. 
Pacuystiema pteleoides. 
Pacuystiema pteleoides. Hook. Ic. Plant. 7. Tab. 698-9. 
A native of the mountains of Santa Cruz, Jamaica, where it 
was discovered by Mr. Purdie, in 1844, from whose dried 
specimens the figure was made for the Icones Plantarum above 
quoted. Seeds having been received at the same time, living 
plants were raised, which have attained a height of eight or nine 
feet in the Royal Gardens, and bore their cream-white very fra- 
grant blossoms in the stove, for the first time, in February, 1849. 
Descr. The plant, in its native country, becomes a small tree, 
- of slender and rather graceful habit, with ternate, petiolate, 
evergreen Jeaves of a full dark-green colour, full of pellucid dots. 
Peduncles or panicles from the axil of the upper leaves. Flowers 
cream-colour. The five-leaved calya gradually passes mto the 
concave petals. Stamens shorter than the petals, springing In 
- APRIL Ist, 1849. 
