206 CALYCU'LORiE. 



flowers small, wliite, pedlcelled. Calyx sometimes 5-, usually 

 6-, rarely 7-fid. Corolla rotate 5-6-7-partite. Filaments of 

 the same number as the divisions of the calyx or corolla, minute, 

 erect, alternating with the divisions of the corolla : anthers 

 roundish, bifid at the base, brownish-purple. Ovary green, 

 globular, glabrous : style short, thick : stigma subcapitate, 

 depressed, with the margin revolute, sub-6-fid. Berry globose, 

 small, size of a pea, purple, 6-locular, 6-seeded. 



This is a somewhat handsome shrubby tree, from its dark 

 shining evergreen leaves, and small white star-like flowers. 



2. Prinos lanceolatus. Lanceolate-leaved Prinos. 



Leaves ovato-lanceolate acuminate and subserrated 

 towards the apex, wedge-shaped at the base shining 

 above paler and minutely punctulated beneath, pe- 

 duncle 3-chotomousIy branched with the divisions 

 1-3-flowered. 



HAB. Hardware Hill Gap, St Andrew's. 



FL. May. 



A shrubby tree about 10 feet in height: branches numerous, 

 fastigiate, angulose towards their extremities, glabrous. Leaves 

 alternate, petiolate, ovato-lanceolate, subacute at the base, at- 

 tenuato-acuminate and remotely serrated, with the teeth (to 

 the glass) subulate, towards the apex ; glabrous, shining above, 

 minutely punctulated beneath, delicately nerved : petiole short. 

 Peduncle axillary, subsolitary, longer than the petiole, some- 

 times 3-flowered, more usually 3-chotomously divided, with the 

 middle division 1 -flowered, and the lateral branches very short 

 (about a line in length) and 3-flowered. Flowers small, white, 

 on a filiform pedicel, | an inch or more in length. Calyx 6- 

 toothed. Corolla 6-fid. The other parts of the flower, and 

 also the fruit, as in the preceding species. 



VI. SCH^FFERIA. 



Flowers by abortion dioecious. Calyx 4-partite (or 

 rather 4-sepalIed), obtuse, persistent. Petals 4, al- 

 ternating with the sepals. Stamens 4, alternating 

 with the petals. Ovary 2-celled : style very short, 

 or : stigmata 2. Berry dry, bipartite, rarely one- 

 celled from abortion ; cells one-seeded : seeds erect, 

 with a fleshy somewhat oily albumen, and the embryo 

 central straight plane. — De Cand. 



Shrubs, with the leaves alternate, and flowers several toge- 



