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ginate at tlie apex coriaceous obscurely nerved very 

 entire, stipules very minute deltoid acute, peduncles 

 very short axillary o-G-flowered. 



I. obcordata, Swartz, Fl. Ind. Occ. 338. 



HAB. Blue-mountain ridge. Orchard negro-grounds ; Port- 

 Royal. 



FL. October — January. 



A tree about 16 feet in height (according to Swartz a 

 shrub) : branches spreading, towards their extremities com- 

 pressed, sulcated, green, glabrous. Leaves petiolate, nearly 2 

 inclies long, and 1 broad, obovato-elliptic, rounded and most 

 generally emarginate with a minute bluntish apicula in the 

 indentation at the apex, acuminate at the base, very entire, 

 coriaceous, obscurely nerved, veinless : petiole terete, slightly 

 channelled. Stipules minute, deltoid, acute. Peduncles axil- 

 lary, solitary, very short, 3-6-flowered : flowers small, white, 

 pedicelled : pedicels one third of an inch in length, compressed, 

 angular, bearing a pair of minute bracteas a little above the in- 

 sertion. Calyx minute, 4-tid; divisions short, acute, persistent. 

 Corolla rotate, 4-partite ; divisions alternate with the sepals, 

 oval, rounded at the apex, imbricated during aestivation. Sta- 

 mens 4, opposite to the sepals, shorter than and adhering to 

 the base ot' the corolla. Ovary globose, 4-lobed : stigma sub- 

 sessile, 4-lobed, purple. Berry 4- or (by abortion) 1-pyrene. ' 



IV. Prinos. TVintev-berry. 

 Calyx 6-fid. Corolla rotate. Stamens 4-6. • Berry 

 6-seeded. 



Name, from Prinos, the Greek designation for the evergreen 

 oak. 



1. Prinos montanus. 



Leaves rotundo-ovate subacuminate at the base 

 acuminate and subserrated towards the apex, shining 

 above paler beneath, peduncles axillary 3-chotomously 

 divided, branches 1-3-flowered. 



Su-artz, FL Ind. Occ. 622 ? 



HAB. Higher mountains, common. 



FL. July, August. 



A shrubby tree, about 15 feet in height : branches erect, 

 terete, scabrous, coloured: branchlets compressed, angulose, sul- 

 cated. Leaves alternate, petiolate, ovate, attenuated towards 

 the base, acuminate, distantly serrated with the teeth distinct 

 towards the apex, glabrous, shining above, paler and minutely 

 punctulated beneath. Peduncle axillary, usually 3-partite ; 

 divisions 1-flowered, or about a line in length and 3-flowercd : 



