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Herbs (in Trop. Africa). Leaves digitate or pinnate. Calyx- 

 lobes bracteolate. Stamens indefinite. Carpels oo, inserted 

 on a convex receptacle, dry (§ Potentillece) 6. Potentilla. 



Herbs or trees. Leaves various. Calyx-tube funnel-shaped, more or less narrowed 

 at the throat over the free ovary. Stamens definite or indefinite. Carpels 1-5. 

 Achene enclosed in calyx-tube (§ Poteriece). 



Herbs. Flowers minute, hermaphrodite. Calyx-lobes 2-seriate. 



Petals 0. Stamens^ usually 4 7. Alchemilla. 



Shrubby. Flowers minute, polygamous or dioicous. Petals 0. 

 Calyx-lobes 1 seriate . . . 8. Clipfortia. 



Tree. Leaves pinnate. Flowers panicled, polygamous or dioi- 

 cous. Calyx-lobes 2-seriate. Petals or 5. Stamens oo . 9. Brayera. 



Shrubs. Leaves pinnate. Petals conspicuous, 5. Carpels oo, 

 free, enclosed in the receptacle or calyx-tube which is con- 

 stricted at the mouth (§ Rosece) 10. Rosa. 



Herbs. Leaves simple, lobed or cut. Carpels 5-10, more or 

 less consolidated with the calyx-tube. Petals minute. 

 Calyx-lobes bracteolate 11. Neurada. 



1. CHRYSOBALANUS, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. 

 Gen. Plant, i. 606. 



Calyx-tube turbinate, limb of 5 nearly equal imbricate segments. 

 Petals 5, early deciduous ; inserted in the mouth of the tube. Stamens 

 15 or more, uniseriate, perigynous, all antheriferous or some ananthe- 

 rous ; filaments (free or) united more or less at the base ; anthers ovoid 

 or roundish, 2-celled, dehiscing- longitudinally. Ovary sessile at the 

 base of the calyx-tube, hirsute or glabrous, 1-celled with 2 erect ovules ; 

 style basal. Fruit drupaceous; endocarp coriaceous or crustaceous, 

 " indehiscent or 5-6-valved, adhering* firmly to the mesocarp ;" seed 

 solitary. — Small trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, simple, entire, 

 glabrous. Stipules very small, caducous. Inflorescence in axillary 

 and terminal paniculate or racemose silky or hoary-pubescent cymes ; 

 flowers \-^ in. diameter, white. 



A small genus, confined to Tropical Africa, and the warmer parts of the New World. 



Leaves broadly bounded or retuse at apex 1. C. Icaco. 



Leaves obtusely apiculate or broadly pointed 2. C. ellipticus. 



1. C. Icaco, Linn. ; DC. Prod. ii. 525. A low diffuse shrub of 1-3 

 ft. or varying to a small tree of 8 or 10 ft., almost wholly glabrous ex- 

 cepting the hoary-tomentose flowers and peduncles. Leaves rather 

 coriaceous, broadly elliptical or rotundate, rounded and entire, at the 

 apex to obovate-rotundate emarginate and obcordate, usually from 

 1-|-3J in. long, l;j-2J in. broad ; petiole distinct, 1-2 lines. Panicu- 

 late cymes terminal and occasionally prolonged beyond the leaves or 

 axillary and usually falling short of or hardly exceeding them. Fruit 

 the size of a plum, yellow, red, purple or whitish. — C. pellocarpus, Mey. 

 Prim. Fl. Esseq. 193 (distinguished as var. 0. pellocarpa by Dr. Hooker 

 in Mart. Fl. Bras. Chrysobal. 7), C. orbicularis, Schum. et Thonn. PI. 

 Guin. 232; C. luteus, Sabine, DC. Prod. ii. 526? 



