122 THALAMIFLOR^. 



yellow, smooth, shining-, l-seeded ; pulp watery, of a pleasant 

 sweet subacid taste ; seed large, white. 



The above description agrees pretty closely with that, of 

 XiMENiA MULTiFLORA, by Jacquin : I never could detect, how- 

 ever, thorns on any of the trees I met with.^ — The plum pro- 

 duced by this species is very agreeable to the taste, and not in- 

 ferior to the common varieties of that of Europe. There is a 

 slight astringency with a pleasant acidity. It is well deserving 

 of notice, and I doubt not, but that it might be rendered by 

 cultivation a very superior fruit. 



2. * Ximenia inermis ? Unarmed Ximenia. 

 Pedicels 1 -flowered, leaves ovate. 



Amyris 3 Arborescens, foliis ovatis, glabris, vetustioribus 



confertis, petiolis submarginatis, floribus solitariis, Broivne, 209. 



HAB. Near Rio Grande, Browne. — Manchioneal Bay, A, 

 Ttohinson. 



FL. ? 



Browne states that this is a shrubby tree ; 8-9 feet high ; leaves 

 an inch in length, crowded together on the branchlets ; perianth 

 5-cleft. In Mr A. Robinson's plant, as quoted by Mr. Lunan, 

 the flowers are in umbels on a short peduncle ; the ovary 4- 

 celled ; style quadragonal ; and stigma quadrate. The plants, 

 in both instances, may prove to be merely varieties of the pre- 

 ceding species. 



II. ICACINA ? 



Calyx minute, 5-fid, persistent. Petals 5, alter- 

 nating with the teeth of the calyx, oblong, villous in- 

 ternally especially at the base. Stamens 5, alternat- 

 ing with the petals ; anthers cordate. Ovary situated 

 on an annular disk, 1 -celled. 



Named, from a fancied resemblance between the fruit of I. 

 Senegalensis, and that of Chrysobalanus Icaco. 



1. Icacina dubia. Doubtful Icacina. 



Leaves lanceolate subacuminate with a pustulose 

 blister in the axils of the nerves, flowers panicled ax- 

 illary. 



HAB. Port-Royal and St David's mountains. 

 FL. May. 



A shrub about 6 feet in height : branches loose, subterete, 

 glabrous, papillose, compressed towards their extremities. 



