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This is a shrub- with rottftd, smooth, somewhat striated, branches, join ted as it were 

 With the decidiions petioles, compressed a little at the top ; leaves opposite, throe or 

 four inches long, decussated, afcuminate at both ends, entire-, nerved, and veined, 

 paler underneath^ on petioles an inch long-, roundish, fiat above, smooth ; stipules 

 between the petioles, wide, connate, acuminate, spreading, rigid, smooth, except at 

 the edge, where they are viilose. Racemes often the length of the leaves, opposite ; 

 branches decussated, compressed a little ; pedicels scattered, the last commoiily three- 

 fioworcu- bractes minute, awl-shaped, at the divisions of the raceme. Flowers small, 

 dusky yellow; calyx five-toothed, very small, pubescent; teeth acute, erect, very 

 small ; tube of the corolla very short, scarcely longer than the teeth of the calyx, wider 

 under the border, which is five-parted, with the segments the length of the tube, ob- 

 long, reflex, tomentose above; throat open, with the margin five-cornered, smooth, 

 shining; filaments from the middle of the tube, shorter than the tube; anthers in the 

 throat, oblong, yellow; style tbickish, the length of the tube; stigma above tire border 

 thickened, bifid; capsule globular, scarcely longer than a seed of hemp, smooth, 

 crowned with a very minute calyx, two-celled, two-valved; partition contrary; seeds 

 very many, membranaceous, bat two only ripening, and these hemispherical. It is 

 very like II thyrsoidea, but has the leaves a little narrower, and smooth on both sides, 

 the racemes are erect ; the tube is very short, not four times as long as the calyx, and 

 two seeds only ripen in the capsule. It seems to be "Browne's plant, though Linneus 

 refers that to his petcsia stipularis, which it can hardlj be, because, in that case, the 

 leaves ought to be tomentose underneath, and the flowers thyrsoid. Su: 



6. TOMF.NTOSA. TOMENTOSE. 



\Fruficosa foliis sub-villosis ovatis oppositis, stipiilts seta tcrminatis, 

 racemis alaribus. Browne, p. 144. 



Teaves ovate-acuminate, tomentose; peduncles three-parted, axillary, short. 



This shrub is three feet high, upright, branched above, even ; branches and branch- 

 lets opposite, round, upright, somewhat viilose at the top ; leaves on short pubescent 

 petioles, opposite, entire, nerved and veined, rough-haired, dusky green, villose- 

 tomentose underneath, becoming hoary ; stipules between the petioles, ovate, with a 

 short point, pubescent. Peduncles small; several times shorter than the leaves, three- 

 parted, with three-flowered branchlets ; flowers small, whitish or dusky yellow, viilose 

 on the outside ; calyx five-toothed, small; tube of the corolla longer than the calyx, 

 narrow; border five-parted, with ovate-concave segments; aperture crowned with a 

 small ring; anthers within the aperture ; style bifid at the top. Capsule roundish, 

 two-celled, small, the size of coriander seed ; seeds solitary, hemispherical. Native 

 of Jamaica on rocky hills. It differs from thyrsoidea in being smaller, in having the 

 leaves pubescent on both sides, and tomentose underneath, and the racemes, flowers, 

 and fruit, very small. 



7. UMBELLULATA. Sl^B-UMBELLED, 



Leaves lanceolate-ovate, acute, sub-hirsute; peduncles axillary, trichotomous 

 at top ; flowers sub-umbelled. 



This shrub is two feet high and more, branched, and upright ; branches almost up- 

 right, sub-divided, and compressed a little, even ; branchlets hirsute at the top ; leaves 

 on hirsute petioles of a middling length ; stipules between the petioles, opposite, con- 



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