112 THALAMlFLOR.i:. 



umbilicato, Sloane, II. 80. t. 194. — Muntingia fniticosa villosa, 

 foliis serratis oblongis uno latere brevioribus, J37'ototie, 243. — 

 M. calabura, Gcertii. I. t. 59. Jacq. Am. t. 107. Swartz, Obs. 

 211. 



HAB. Common on the low dry liills. 



FL. Throughout the year. 



A tree about 15 feet in height : branches horizontally spread- 

 ing, villoso-tomentose with viscoso- capitate hairs at their extre- 

 mities. Leaves alternate, shortly petiolated, oblongo-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, unequal and sub-cordate at the base, nerved, deep 

 green and pubescent above, rufescenti-tomentose with viscid 

 hairs beneath. Stipules twice the length of the petiole, seta- 

 ceous. Peduncles supra-axillary, 2-3 together, 1-2 inches 

 long, terete, viscoso-villous, one-flowered. Flowers white. 

 Bracteas 3-4, at the base of the peduncles, setaceo-subulate. 

 Calyx 5-7 partite nearly to the base ; divisions lanceolate, at- 

 tenuated at the apex, externally villoso-pubescent, internally 

 concave, deciduous. Petals of the same number as the calycine 

 lobes, spreading,slight]y clawed at the base, roundish, undulated 

 at the margin. Filaments numerous, erect : anthers yellow, 

 didymous. Ovary globose, lobulated, encircled at the base 

 with a hairy ring : stigma sessile. Berry, size of a gooseberry, 

 green. 



IV. Bancroftia. 



Calycine sepals 8, persistent. Petals 8. Stamens 

 8, liypogynous. Style short: stigma racliato-6-fid. 

 Berry 6-celled, co-seeded : seeds minute, nidulant in 

 the pulp. 



Named, in honour of Dr Edward Nathaniel Bancroft of .Ja- 

 maica, a zealous cultivator of Botany, as well as the other bran- 

 ches of Natural History, and author of several esteemed works 

 on medical subjects. 



1. Bancroftia diffusa. Spreading Bancroftia. 



HAB. Morce's Gap, and road to New-Haven, St George's. 



FL. October. 



Stem herbaceous, suffruticose at the base, several feet in 

 length, supporting itself on neighbouring shrubs : branches 

 long, terete, glabrous. Leaves alternate, petiolate, ternate, 

 with the middle leaf the longest ; leaflets lanceolate, acuminate, 

 subentire, nerved, glabrous : common petiole about 2 inches in 

 length, terete, glabrous : petiolules of the leaflets short. Ra- 

 cemes terminal, simple, 6-8 inches in length : flowers shortly 

 pedicelled, greenish-white : common peduncles angulose : pedi- 

 cels half an inch in length, furnished at the base with a linear 

 bractea of the same length. Sepals 8, narrow, lanceolate, per- 



