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fvlioyv.nrerumptiitibii<;fritctn minimo crccco. Sloane, t. ?, p. 103, 

 t: 21 1, f. 2. Fol/'is ovaiiscum (itumine, /ruciibus p/urintis mino<- 

 ribiis cojifertis. Browne, p. 217,. 



Flouers ten male ; leaves oWoiig, pointed, crenulate, glabrous both sides, sl.in- 

 ing- ; peduncles crowded, axillary,, one iiowered.. 



This rises fifteen feet hig-h, having a trunk a.s i>ig as an- arm, with a smooth 'sviiito 

 l)ark like hazel. It has imiiiy branches, and the twigs thickly set with leaves alterr.a- 

 tiveiv, hr.t so close that they appear as. if wiuged., The-leaves are smooth and uf a yel- 

 low green colour, two inches long and three-quarters of an inch .broad in the uiiddle, , 

 where bnjadest. Between the branches and these come out the flowers, so small as to .- 

 be scarcely discernible, roundisli, and pale green, many togethei;, and sessile, to which 

 foilovv so many berries of an oiange colour, bigger thai> large plus heads, consisting of 

 a thin yellow skin, very thin pulp, and aciiii or seeds. It grows -every where anionj^ 

 the lowland woods, near the biiRks of the llio Cobre. Shane. 



This has the same kind of staminal rudiments as the first, and has three styles on the 

 top of the gcrnien, in which it differs ; the rudiments are not red but green. The 

 leaves are more deeply dented than those of the nilida, and are always at tneir full size 

 when the tree is blossoming. Browne. calls it the smaller samyda or cloven berry Ifush, 

 and says! this seldom rises above tour or five feet. This has nine or tLUi filaments in the 

 fiower^ 



3.PUBESCENS. PUBESCENT. 



Frutex hacc'fer, folio ohlongo integro, flore pentapetah, paUtde liiteo 

 odora'issitn. Sloane, v. 2, p. 10!J. Fulii.i o-jatis villosis, Jioribui 

 confertis, fiusciculissparsis. Browne, p. 218. 



Leaves ovate, tomentpse beneath. 



This is a small shrub, rising eight or nine feet high by several small trunks, straio-ht^ 

 and covered with a reddish grey-coloured bark; the branches have leaves ac three- 

 quarters of an inch distant, which about the beginning of February fall of, and in their 

 ])lace come tuffs (jf flowers, four or five together, oa scarce any footstalks ; they are 

 pale green, pewtapetalous, with stamens of the same colour, and smell very sweet. 

 To these follow oval black berries, about the bigness of small sloes, -cleaving into tvvo 

 for the most part, whence the name- After these come the leaves, on one-tenth of 

 an inch long footstalks, three inches long and one bVoad in the middle, where broadest, 

 very soft and woolly, of a yellowish green colour, except the ribs which incline- to red. 

 It is to be met in the Ked Hdls going to Guanaboa. The berries when ripe are eatea 

 bv wild pigeons, v/hich fatten them very much. Sloane. 



This is called the hairy mvrj/da or cloven berry hush, but known among negroes by 

 the Dame Oi savanna Wdt/le, parrot-wood^ and wild coffee : the berries are larger than 

 those of the other species ; and there is a variety of it which has berries still larger.^ 

 The blossoms smell like. honey and contain.aiieciareous. juice, and the berries have-a 

 bitter taste. / 



4. VILLOSQ. VILLOUS. 



Flowers ten-stamoned ; leaves oblong, sub-serrate, oblique at the base, silky,, 

 viilose beiieatli ; peduncles ^olitarj, axillary. Sw. Fr, tjS^. 



Tliia, 



