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CyRILLA RACEMIFLORA. CAROLINA CyriLta. 
es Sr ae ie Sa 
Class and Order. 
Penrannria Monoeynia. 
Generic Character. 
_. Cal. parvus, subturbinatus, 5-partitus. Petala 5, stel- 
Jatim patentia. Stam. receptaculo inserta. Stylus brevis : 
stigmata 2, raro 3. Caps. bilocularis, non dehiscens: loculis 
I-spermis. Sem. e summo receptaculo axillari appensa. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Crritta racemiflora ; foliis cuneato-lanceolatis acutis subtus 
subnervosis, racemis gracilibus elongatis, petalis pedi- 
cello longioribus. 
Crritta racemiflora. L. Mant. 50. Syst. Veg. ed. 14. p. 
RAT. Jacq. ic. rar. t, AT. Collect. 1. p. 162. Lam. 
Encyel. 2. p. 245. , poe! 
Cyritta caroliniana ; foliis cuncato-lanceolatis acutis mem- 
~ branaceis nervillosis, spicis gracilibus, petalis pedicello 
“ lengioribus. Michaux Fl. Bor. Am. 1. p. 158. Per- 
soon Syn. 1. p. 175. Pursh Fl. Am. Sept. 1. p: Vi0- 
Nutt. Amer. 1. p. 144. Poir. Encyel suppl. 2. p. 436: 
Roem. et Sch. Syst. Veg. 5. p. 408. Se 
Ita Cyrilla ; foliis lanceolatis integerrimis. L’Herit. Stirp. 
1. p. 137, t. 66. Swarts Prodr. 50.—Flor. Ind. Occid. 
1. p. 506.—Obs. p. 94. t.4. Willd. Sp. Pl. 1. p. 1146. 
Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 2. p. 37. 
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Descr. An upright shrub, from four to six feet high. 
(Swarrz says, that in the mountains of Jamaica, it grows 
;ccasionally into a tree twenty feet high). Leaves obovate- 
‘nceolate, smooth, quite entire. Racemes of white flowers, 
stowine, sometimes singly, sometimes opposite, but more 
sferally collected, a number together, at the end of na 
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