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The young leaves come out with the flowers, and are at first 

 of a very soft texture and reddish colour. This is certainly the 

 plant described by Browne. 



2. Casearica hirta. Hairy Casearia. 



Flowers 8-antherous 5-partite, pedicels crowded 

 1 -flowered, leaves ovate serrated pubescent above 

 hairy beneath along the nerves. 



Swartz, Fl. Ind. Occ. 756. — Prod. 68. 



HAB. Common in mountain pastures. 



FL. May. 



A shrubby tree : branches spreading, terete, angulose, pubes- 

 cent. Leaves about 4 inches long and 2 broad, apiculated; tlie 

 serratures distant and rather irregular: petiole short. Pedun- 

 cles I -flowered, in clusters, axillary and lateral, short, round, fili- 

 form, pubescent. Perianth 5-partite, greenish- white, externally 

 puberulous, larger in proportion than in the rest of the species ; 

 divisions oblong. The barren-filaments short, villoso-plumose, 

 persistent : the anther-bearing filaments subulate, erect, smooth : 

 anthers ovate. Ovary ovate. Style 3-quetrous, length of the 

 stamens : stigma capitate, slightly 3-fid. Capsule oblong, shortly 

 acuminate, 3-vaIved. 



In the specimens which I have examined, the perianth was 

 uniformly 5-partite and not 4-partite, as stated by Swartz. 



8. Casearia odorata. Sweet-smelling Casearia. 



Flowers 8-antherous 5-partite, pedicels 1 -flowered 

 axillary 10-15 together, leaves ovate acuminate with 

 the apex obtuse crenato-serrated subglabrous pelluci- 

 do-punctulated. 



HAB. Common in Savannahs. St Thomas in the Vale. 

 Port-Royal mountains. 



FL. August, September. 



A shrub, 6-10 feet in height : branchlets horizontally spread- 

 ing, subterete. LeaVes subdistichal, alternate, petiolate, ovate, 

 acuminate with the apex obtuse or subemarginate, subglabrous, 

 (minutely puberulous along the nerves'), crenulato- serrulated 

 (the teeth with a minute deciduous apicula), nerved, pellucido- 

 punctulated, about 2 inches long and 1 broad : petiole short. 

 Pedicels 10-15, crowded together, axillary, about ^ of an inch 

 in length (twice that of the petiole), articulated at the middle, 

 furnished at the base with minute marescent sheathing scales. 

 Flowers greenish-white, fragrant. Sepals 5, oblong, obtuse. 

 Stamens 16, monadelphous at the base ; the 8 fertile ones erect, 

 subulate ; the barren ones truncated, villous. Ovary villous i 



