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Collins, mistaken for Bumelia ! leaves small 1 

 inch long, quite similar to those of Prunus ! ra- 

 cemes terminal 5-6flore, no bracts, pedicels 

 long, calix broad flat campanulate Sdentate per- 

 sistent, 5 petals obovate, stamens about 15 al- 

 most monadelphous at the base, filaments sub- 

 ulate, pistil on a thick thorus. oblong acute pro- 

 minent, style lateral incurved or flexuose, stig- 

 ma obtuse. I have not seen the ripe fruit, but 

 the young fruit is unlike any Prunus being o- 

 blong elongate acute like a pod one side strait. 

 I have united this shrub with this Genus for 

 the lateral style ; but it deserves to be a pecu- 

 liar subgenus by the calix, thorus, stamens &c, 

 a connecting link with Padus, I propose to call 

 it Spondolobus Raf, meaning plumb-pod. 



543. CnRysopHyLUM LUDOVICIANUM Raf. fl. 

 lud. 165. C. glabrum Robin not L. Spinose, 

 leaves oblong lanceolate acute, silky beneath, 

 flowers fasciculate axillary in West Louisiana 

 and Texas, only seen by Robin, mistaken for 

 C. glabrum of Antilles, but this has smooth 

 leaves. Omitted by our compilers and added 

 here to recall it to their dull memory. A shrub 

 8 to 10 feet high, flowers small greenish, calyx 

 5parted, stigma sessile, berry globular, seeds 

 compressed. 



544. CHRysopnyLUM CAINITO var. rotundifo- 

 lium Raf. Leaves on short petiols rounded 

 ovate acute at both ends, veins paralel, above 

 shining lucid brown, beneath silky lucid rusty, 

 flowers geminate, pedicels longer than flowers, 

 fruit oboval rounded. South Florida, and Flo- 

 rida Keys, A small tree, branches smooth 

 ashy brown, leaves alternate coriaceous thick 

 beautiful almost round very entire 2 or 3 inch- 

 es long, nearly as broad, with a single thick 



