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is distinguished from all others by its elongated leaflets, narrow at 

 base, rhomboidal, and by its piperiform fruit. Now the leaflets in 

 Catesby's plate are not at all narrowed at base nor rhomboidal, but 

 ovate-lanceolate. Most specimens do accord with this description, 

 more or less, but not the figure. Jacquin's specific names take prior- 

 ity, having been enumerated in 1760, and one of the names, A. mari- 

 tima, is cited from Jacquin by Linnaeus. To this species our Amyris 

 is evidently to be referred, and this name should be preferred, among 

 other reasons, because it was taken up by Linnaeus ; while the A. syl- 

 vatica, Jacq., if distinct, as Triana and Planchon make out, is the 

 larger and thinner-leaved one named by De Candolle A. Plumieri. 

 The syn. of Catesb. ii. t. 33, cited under A. sylvatica by Jacquin, be- 

 longs of course to A. maritima. Catesby gives no habitat, and his 

 platit was probably from the Bahamas, certainly not from " Carolina." 

 "Why De Candolle described the lateral leaflets of A. maritima as 

 sessile, and why Grisebach made the leaflets of his A. sylvatica glau- 

 cous beneath, one cannot find out. We name our forms 



Amyris maritima, Jacq. A. sylvatica, DC Prodr., & Griseb. at 

 least mainly. A. Floridana, Nutt., who perhaps mistakenly represents 

 oval fruit in his Sylva. Leaflets mostly broadly ovate or roundish, 

 obtuse or acute or acuminate, shining and bright green both sides, 

 the veins and reticulated veinlets conspicuous. 



Var. angustifolia. Shrub, apparently more maritime ; leaflets 

 ovate-lanceolate or rhombic-lanceolate, smaller (an inch or more long), 

 dull or pale in the dried specimens, and venation less conspicuous. — 

 A. elemifera, L. (Catesb. Car. ii. t. 33). A. sylvatica, Jacq., as to 

 syn. Catesb. only. A. maritima, Griseb., at least in part; Triana & 

 Planch. Ann. Sci. Nat. 1. c. 324, excl. syn. Near to this is the 

 following : — 



A. parvifolia ; a low shrub, collected by Prof. Sargent on the 

 southeastern border of Texas, on the Rio Grande below Brownsville, 

 and probably the same collected by General Eaton and Dr. Edwards 

 in Mexico, near Monterey : leaflets only half or three quarters of an 

 inch long, rhombic-ovate or narrower, obtuse, nearly all crenate or 

 crenulate, dull, and with comparatively inconspicuous reticulation ; 

 lateral ones short-petiolulate or subsessile, as is sometimes the terminal 

 one also. 



