ANONACILK. 5 



1. Tetracera Jamaicensis. Jamaica Tetracera. 



Leaves ovali-oblong somewhat acute prolonged at 

 the base subghibrous siibserrulated, peduncles race- 

 mose glabrous somewhat rough. 



De Cand. Si/st. I. AOO.—Prod. I. 68. 



HAB. St Thomas in the Vale, common. 



FL. December. 



A shrub, subscandent, supporting itself on neighbouring 

 plants : branches terete, towards their extremities hispid, co- 

 loured. Leaves with a ?e\v serratures towards the apex, penni- 

 nerved with the nerves on the under surface hispidulous, 5 

 inches long, and 2\ broad : petiole keeled. Panicle terminal 

 and axillary, erect, racemose. Flowers yellow, showy, pedi- 

 celled. Calycine sepals 5 ; the 2 iimer the largest, roundish, 

 concave, externally puberulous ; internally sericeous : the 3 

 outer small, membranaceous. Petals 5, obovato-oblong, 

 rounded, deciduous. Stamens co, yellow : filaments dilated at 

 the apex, bearing the anthers at the sides. Ovary bilocular: 

 style curved, club-shaped : stigmata 2, capitate. Capsules 

 2-4, large, glabrous, awned with the persistent style. 



This is a showy plant, and appears to have been first collected 

 by Mr Wiles, and first described by Prof. De Candolle, who 

 met with a specimen in the herbarium of A. B. Lambert, Esq. 

 For an illustration of the fruit, the reader is referred to Gsertner, 

 h 336, t. 69. 



ORDER IV. ANONACEyE. 



Calycine sepals 3-4, short, persistent, very sel- 

 dom free, more commonly united into a 3-4.fid, or. 

 3-4-partite calyx. Petals (J, hypogynous, in two 

 rows, coriaceous, with a valvular aestivation. Stamens 

 numerous, placed closely together and covering a large 

 hypogynous usually hemispherical disk: filaments very 

 short : anthers adnate, turned outwards, with an en- 

 larged 4-cornered connectivum, which is sometimes 

 nectariferous. Ovaries usually numerous : styles 

 short : stigmata simple. Fruit composed of a num- 

 ber of carpels, which are either succulent or dry, ses- 



