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C.L. 4, or. \.~Tetnuidrit; monogyma. Nat. Oil Rhxmni. 

 Gew char. Calyx a very small perianth, four-parted, acute, permanent; corolla 

 four^ovate sessile petals, with 'a longitudinal pit at the base; stamens four i.wi- 

 shaped filaments, itemersed in the pit, long; anthers oblong; the pistil has art 

 ovate germ,, style longer, stigma funnel-form ; pericarp a roundish tine-seeded 

 drupe ; seed -solitary. One species was found in Jamaica by Swartz-. 



CORIACF.A. CORIACEOUS. 



v Flowers sessile, conglomerate; leaves lanceolate-ovate, acute, sub- coriaceous. 

 This is a tree with a trunk from twenty to thirty feet in heightb, and upright branches; 

 branchlets alternate, sometimes four-cornered, even; leaves alternate, scattered, 

 quite entire, somewhat rigid, nerved and veined, very smooth, membranaceous, dark 

 green, on short petioles. Flowers lateral and axillary, small, whitish, balls of flowers 

 scattered, approximating ; calyx four leaved, or four-parted at the base ; leaflets ovate, 

 acute, keeled, scarcely half a line in length, a little connate at bottom; petals four, 

 slightly connected at the base, oblorg, sharpish, spreading, three times as long as the 

 caivx ; filaments very short, inserted into the base of the petals ; anthers i.blong, 

 spreading, pressed close to the segments of the corolla, biggish; germ superior, glo- 

 bular, style very short, stigma large, ovate : Berry ? globular, the size of a pepper- 

 corn, one-celled. Some of the trees of this species have male flowers only. Native 

 of Jamaica, in the southern parts, in woods on the mountains. Sw. ' 



SAMPHIRE OF JAMAICA. EATIS. 



Cl. 22, or. 4. Dioecia tetrandria. NaT. or. 

 Gen. thar. -Male calyx a pyramidal anient, scales one-flowered, fourfold, rnabri- 

 cate ; no corolla; stamens four filaments, erect, longer than the scales of the 

 ament ; anthers oblong, twin, incumbent. Female on a seperate plant calyx a 

 common fleshy ament, containing some floscules, conglobated into an ovate qua- 

 drangular body ; involucre two-leaved ; no corolla ; the pistil has a quadrangular 

 germ, fastened to the ament; no style; stigma two-lobed, obtuse, villose ; the 

 pericarp, a berry conjoined with the rest, one celled ; seeds four, triangular, 

 acuminate. There is only one species, a native of Jamaica. 



MAR1T1MA. MARITIME. 



Kali fr ut i co sum, coniferum, fiore albo. Sloane, V.I, p. 144, 

 Maritima erecta, ramosa ; foliolis succulentis, sub-cj/lindri~ 

 cis. Browne, p. 356. 



This is a shrub, four feet high, or less, with brittle, ronnd, ash-coloured, stems, 

 much branched, diffused, procumbent ; young branches four-cornered, four-furrowed, 

 green, opposite, and upright. Leaves oblong, thicker above, acute, gradually draw- 

 ing to a point towards the base, fleshy, succulent, flat above, convex beneath, sessile, 

 opposite, scarcely an inch long, numerous. Stigmas white, flowers yellow, or green- 

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