144 THALAMlFLOU.i:. 



HAB. Common on Lime-stone hills. 



FL. June — August. 



A shrubby tree about 12 feet in height: branches spreading, 

 terete, glabrous, albido-rimoso-papillose. Leaves alternate, or 2-4 

 crowded together at the extremity of a short branchlet, petio- 

 late, obovato-subrotund, wedge-shaped at the base, rounded 

 (sometimes slightly emarginate) at the apex, entire, glabrous, 

 thin, membranaceous, obscurely nerved, pale, (glaucescent) be- 

 neath, little more than an inch in length: petiole short, twice 

 the length of the pedicels, filiform. Stipules small, lanceolate, 

 deciduous, half the length of the petiole. Flowers small, white, 

 very shortly pedicelled, 4-10 (usually 6) together, axillary, 

 furnished at the base with minute ovate acute brown scariose 

 scales. Calyx pentangular at the base, 5-fid ; divisions ovate. 

 Petals 5, alternating with the calycine lobes, and twice their 

 length, oblong, obtuse, keeled on the back, concave internally, 

 and furnished about the middle with a convoluted petaloid 

 appendage. Stamens 10, inserted on the inside of an urceolate 

 minutely denticulated nectary or disk: filaments subulate: 

 anthers oval. Ovary ovato-conical : styles 3, very short : stig- 

 mata simple. 



This species is probably identical with E. obtusum of De 

 CandoUe, noticed by Kunth as a native of Cuba. 



2. Erytliroxylum areolatum. Areolated-leaved Red- 

 wood. 



Leaves elliptico-obovate areolated mucronate glau- 

 cescent beneath, pedicels lateral several aggregated 

 scarce tw^ice the length of the flower. 



E. foliis ellipticis, Browne, Jam. 278. t. 38. f. 2 E. areola- 

 tum, Sivarfz, Obs. 184. — E. Carthagenense, Jacq. Amer. 134. 

 t. 187. f. 1. 



HAB. In dry situations. Near the sea-shore. 



FL. May — June. 



A shrubby tree, about 10 feet in lieight : branchlets short, 

 ash-coloured, scabrous. Leaves alternate, or more commonly 

 crowded at the ends of the branchlets, petiolate, elliptic, 

 slightly obovate towards the base, rounded sometimes emargi- 

 nate at the apex, entix-e, glabrous, glaucescent beneath, penni- 

 veined, and in addition marked with two obscure nerves sub- 

 parallel to the mid-nerve, enclosing an areolated spot, distinctly 

 observable on holding the leaf up to the light ; an inch and a half 

 in length, and half-an-inch in breadth : petiole short, terete. 

 Stipules acute, sharply 2-ridged. Peduncles lateral, towards the 

 ends of the branchlets, 1-5 together, 1 -flowered, length of the 

 petiole. Flowers small, white, slightly fragrant. Calyx 

 minute ; teeth 5, acute. Petals 5, clawed, oblong, obtuse, al- 



