226 " CALYCIFLOU^. 



solitary, 1 -flowered. Fruit size of a small plum, orange-yellow, 

 smooth. Nut from abortion l-seeded: seed exalbuminous ; 

 funicle central, arising fi-om the base, lying between the lobes 

 of the cotyledons as in a sheath ; cotyledons leafy and plicato- 

 corrugated ; embryo thick, white ; radicle incumbent. 



It is probable that this may be found to constitute a genus 

 distinct from Rhus. I have not, however, been successful in 

 observing the flower, and have met with only two individuals 

 of the species. The fruit has a great resemblance in size and 

 appearance to that of the Hog-plum, but the taste is intensely 

 bitter. It is green at Christmas, and ripens towards the end of 

 March, so that it is probable that August may be the period of 

 flowering. 



This tree is stated to be also a native of Campeachy. 



VI. Spondias. Hog-Plum. 



Calyx 5-fid, coloured. Petals 5, oblong. Stamens 

 10, arising from a glandulose crenated disk. Ovary 

 1, ovate: styles 5, erect, distant. Drupe with a 

 fibrous 5-locular nut. Ovules 2 in each locule. Seeds 

 from abortion solitary, exalbuminous, with the em- 

 bryo straight ; cotyledons somewhat fleshy ; radicle 

 inferior. 



Trees; with the leaves irapari-pinnate, rarely simple; ra- 

 cemes axillary, simple or panicled. — Sroi'S/a was the Gi'eek 

 name of a kind of plum. 



1. Spondias lutea. Yellow Spanish-Plum. 



Leaves impari-pinnate, leaflets 10-paired subalter- 

 nate obovate subacuminate and serrated towards the 

 apex, petiole 3-gonal, racemes short. 



Spondias foliis paucioribus pinnatis ovatis nitidis, Browne, 

 229.— S. Myrobalanus, var. ^..Willd. Sp. II. 751. 



HAB. In the Port-Royal mountains. Not uncommon 

 throughout the Island. 



FL. May. 



A tree, 15-20 feet in height: branches spreading, irregular, 

 glabrous, punctato-pustulose at their extremities. Leaves 

 situated on the shoots of the last year : leaflets 10-paired with 

 an odd one, 1-1 1 inch long, shortly petiolulated, somewhat 

 obovate, unequilateral at the base, slightly acuminate or acute 

 with a few serratures at the apex, nerved and veined, subcoria- 

 ceous, glabrous with exception of a slight pubescence on the 

 midrib near the base : petiole 7-8 inches long, keeled below, 



