374 IIORTUS .J-AT\IAICENSIS, nomiANiA 



ported by crhoked very short pedicels, and decorated by a promincnt^small<K-.iddle rib, 

 beneath from v.liich jMOceed oblique alternate fine veins to tlie margins. The seeds 

 are excessively bitter, as are the leaves, but not so much.. It was in seed, about. the 

 middle of April." 



No English Xamc. ' HIRTELLA. 



Cl. .5, on. 1. Pentandria monogijnia. K.vr. or. Bosacde. 



This was so named from the hairiness of the branches. 



, Gen. char. CalyN a one-leafed five-parted perianth ; corolla-five roundish conca:%'e 

 petals; filaments -liirce to five, Jong, permanent, anthers roundish ; the pistil ha a 

 roundish germ, a filiform style, .and simple stigma ; pericarp an oval one-seeJed 

 berry ; seed large. One species is a: nittive of Jamaica. 



, TRIAI^DRA. THREE-STAMENED. 



Leaves obloiig-ocute ; racen^es compound, loose -^ flowers threc-stamened. 

 This is a branching tree, twenty feet high, frequently less. Leaves quite eatire, 

 *sliining, on short petioles, alternate, five inches long ; racemes terminating, villose, 

 "half a foot in length. TheJlowers have no scent; the stamens' aiid style are placed 

 crosswise; the calycine segments are cvate-toundish, concave, equal, rc'fiex ; petals 

 spreading, equal, deciduous, white; filaments three, filiform, flatted at the base, up- 

 right, very long, pcrnianenr, finally rolled in spiralij* ; anthers roundish ; germ round- 

 ish, villose, compressed on the side, v.'ithout any stamen close to it ; style filiform, 

 hirsute at tlie bottom, almost the l<igth of the stamens. Jaciiuin. It flowers in Ajjrii 

 and May ; the ripe fruit is of a-deep purple colour, a!x)ut three-quarters of an inch in 

 diameter, covered with down or fine hairs; pulp sweetish, smelling and tasting not 

 unlike the coco plum. Within the pulp is an oblong, sub-quadrated, compressed, 

 nut, with longitudinal furrows on it, pointed at the base, including a kernel of the 

 ,iji{s\iiC form, also resembling in taste that of the coco j^lum, 



^ No EnglUli Name. ' HOFFMANNIA. 



Cl. 4, OR. 1. Tetrarulrla monogynia. Nat. on. Sidlatx. 



This was so named by Svvartz in memory of Maurice Hoflmann, professor of botany 



, atAltorff. 



Gen. char, Calyx a one-leafed perianth, four-toothed, superior ; teeth upright, 

 sharp ; corolla monopetalous, salver-shaped ; tube so short' as to !)e next to none ; 

 border four-parted, parts lanceolate, spreading; the stamens have no filaments ; 

 anthers four, fixed to the base of the tube, linear-subulate, upright,, pressed close 

 to the st)-le ; the pistil has an inferior germ, oblong, four-cornered, a subulate 

 style, the length of the stamens, and a blunt scarcely emarginate stigma; the 

 pericarp is an oblong berry, sligluly four-cornered, crowned, two-celled, two- 

 valved ; seeds numerous, roundish, iised to receptacles in each cell. There is 

 only one species of tliis genus. 



I>EDUNCUL.\TA. 



