ICOSANDRIA. MONOGYNIA, SOI 



Petals 4 or 5. Stigma 4-cleft. Capsule 4 or 5- 

 celled, many-seeded. 



Shrubs with opposite impunctate leaves; flowers oppo- 

 site or terminal, partly spiked or corymbose, white, each 

 of them bracteolate. ( Fruit grooved, inseparably invest- 

 ed by the calix; separable into 4 or 5 parts, each part hav- 

 ing a dorsal cleft and inflected margins which are united 

 inwards towards the base.) 



Species. 1. P. inodoras. 2. Lexvisii. Ph. 5. grandi- 

 Jlonis. 4. * hirsutns. Style and stigma undivided; leaves 

 oblong-ovate acute, sharply and angularly denticulate, up- 

 per side hirsute, t!ie under whiteish and hirsutely villous; 

 branchlets about 3-flo\vered; peduncle bibracteate near the 

 summit. Hab. On the rocky banks of French Broad river, 

 Tennessee, near the Warm Springs, abundant. Obs. A 

 smaller shrub than any of the preceding with slender vir- 

 gate branches. Petals almost uniformly 4, dilated ovate, 

 or broad oval, very obtuse, mostly oblique, slightly emar- 

 ginate, pure white; segments of the calix subsemiovate, a- 

 cute, and villous; style sliorter than the stamina, simple, 

 stigma clavate, undivided, 4-grooved. 



A North American genus, with the exception of P. co' 

 ronarius. 



330. CHRYSOBALANUS. L. (Cocoa Plum.) 

 Calix 5-cleft, inferior. Petals 5. Style late- 

 ral. Drufe pruniform; nut 5-grooved, 5-valv- 

 ed, 1 -seeded. 



Arborescent or suflTruticose; leaves entire, stipulate; 

 flowers paniculately racemose, axillary and terminal; drupe 

 esculent. 



Species. l.C oblov.gif alius. Obs. A lov/ suflTruticose 

 plant, rarely more than a foot high, but running horizon- 

 tally to a considerable extent; stipules very minute, leaves 

 sessile, cuneate-oblong, 3 or 4 inches in length, seldom 

 more than 1 in breadth, coriaceous, prominently and reti- 

 culately veined, shining on both surfaces, partly semper- 

 virent, 'margin obsoletely crenulate, the under surface, 

 sometimes, though rarely, white and tomentose. The 

 panicle, which is terminal, is also very far from being 

 large; the peduncles of the panicle are almost uniform- 

 ly 3-fiowered; drupe, or rather berry, cyliiidric-oblong, 

 cliveibrmed, the sliell merely coriaceous, v. v. In the 

 sandv pine forrests of Georgia, not far from Augusta. 



Of this genus there is another species indigenous to the 

 West India islands. 



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