216 CALYCIFLOR^. 



style erect, length of the stamens : stigma capitate. Capsule 

 size of a coffee berry, 3-valved. 



The flowers of this species are many times larger than those 

 of C. PARVIFLORA, and are very fragrant, perfuming tlie air to 

 a considerable distance. It approaches very near to C bami- 



FLORA. 



4. Casearia parviflora. Small-flowered Casearia. 



Flowers 1 0-antherous 5-partite very small, pedicels 

 crowded axillary 1 -flowered, leaves oblong acuminate 

 crenulated or subentire glabrous pellucido-punctu- 

 lated. 



Arbor baccifera, fructu minimo croceo, Sloane, II. t. 211. f. 

 2. — Samyda, Browne, 217. — S. parviflora, Linn, Spec. 557. 

 Swartz, Obs. 178. — Casearia parviflora, Willd. II. 627. — De 

 Cand. Prod. II. 49. — C. sylvestris, Swartz, FL hid. Occ. 

 752? 



HAB. Common in mountain thickets. 



FL. April — August. 



A slirub, 6-10 feet in height: branchlets alternate, nearly 

 horizontally spreading, slightly compressed, virgultose, sub- 

 flexuose, minutely puberulous. Leaves alternate, petiolate, 

 distichal, oblong, acuminate with the apex obtuse, serrato-cre- 

 nulated, glabrous, thin, pellucido-punctulated, nerved and 

 veined: petiole very short. Flowers shortly pedicelled, 20-30, 

 crowded together, axillary, small, of a pale yellow. Pedicels 

 about 3 lines in length, 1-flowered, furnished at their insertion 

 with minute ovate sheathing ciliated marescent scales. Sepals 

 5, roundish-ovate, concave, minutely ciliated. Fertile stamens 

 10, shorter than the calyx, alternating with the barren filaments, 

 which are shorter, truncated, villose. Ovary conical, sub-3- 

 gonal, green, minutely appresso-puberulous : style very short : 

 stigmata 3, capitate. Capsule small, size of a black pepper, 

 3-valved, about 6-seeded. 



I consider Casearia sylvestris of Swartz to be merely a 

 variety of this species, produced by growing in a shady situa- 

 tion. 



.5. Casearia serrata. Serrated Casearia. 



Flowers 10-antlierous 5-partite small, pedicels 

 crowded axillary 1-flowered on a very short common 

 peduncle, leaves oblongo-lanceolate finely serrated 

 subglabrous pellucido-punctulated. 



HAB. Road from Rose-hill to Peter's Rock, St Andrews. 

 FL. November, December. 



