(CLOVe:^ HORTUS J AI\1 AT C ENSIfe, 201 



3. ACUMINATA. ACUMINATE. 



Caulescent, leaves hispid, seaii- cordate, acuminate, unequallj' toothed; Uie 

 "largest wing of th;; capsule obtuse-an^^ied, the others acute-angled. 

 The male tlowers have four peti'ls, of wiiic-h two are opposite and smaller ; tJie fe- 

 male Howers have five petals,, of which two also are smaller than tlie rest. At the base 

 of the germ are two bra; tes, which are sharply serrate, and only hali" the length of the 

 germ. Jt grows on tlae Blue Mountains. 



4. scandeJis. scandent. 



Scandent radicant ; leaves ovate-roundish, obscurely toothed ; the largest wing 

 of the capsule obtuse-angled, the others parallel and very small. 



This has decumbent knotty stems, pushing out roots at the knots, and climbs trees 

 ithin its reach. Floweis greenish. All the species are easily increased by cuttings^ 

 and are frequently found in New Liguanea mouutaius. 



CLOVEN BERRIES. , SAMYDA. 



Cl. 10, OR. 1. Decandviiinionogynta. Nat. or. 



tjEN. char. Calyx a one-leafed perianth, coloui'ed within ; tube bell-shaped, ten- 

 streaked, border tive-cleft, segments ovate, flat, spreading very much, blunt, two 

 of them augmented with a pomt ; there is no corolla : the nectar}' is one-leafed, 

 conical, truncate, ten-streaked, almost the length of the calyx, and inserted into 

 its border at the base, mouth bluntly ten or eight toothed ; the stamens have no 

 filaments; the anthers are ten or eight, oblong, erect, small, placed on the teeth 

 of the nectary ; the pistil has an ovate germ, an awl-shaped style, erect, length 

 of the nectary ;" stigma capitate, obtuse ; the pericarp is a roundish capsule, four- 

 grooved, coriaceous, thick, one-celled, four-valved ; the seeds are ver}' many, 

 sub-ovate, obtuse, marked with a little pore at the base, "fastened to the valves, 

 '.wrapped iu a pulpy pellicle. Five species are natives of Jamaica. 



1. nitida. glossy. 



JF'ruticosafoUis pitidis cordatis, levissime crenatis ; rudimenfis molli- 

 bus rubentibus ; raceynis ienuioribus alaribus, Browne, p. 217, t. 

 23, f. 3. 



Flowers eight-stamened ; leaves cordate, smooth. 



Browne calls this the shrubby sdmydu with wa.ven rudiments, or the larger clovni' 

 icrry hush. It is frequent in the lowlands of Jamaica, and shoots sometimes to the 

 height of seven or eight feet. The leaves are shining and very slightlj- ci-cnate ; the 

 rudiments or segments of the nectary soft, red ; flowers in slender axillaiy racemes. 

 It has only eight filaments in each flower. It loses its leaves before it blossoms, and 

 when they shoot again they are small and reddish. In Browne's figure the rudiments 

 are ioo short and not natual in their form. 



2. PAIIVIFLORA. SMALL-FLOWERED. 



/irbor baccifera, foliis oblongis acuniinatis, Jloribus confertivi ex alls 

 D d foUorum 



