Peraea 



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Farm Hill ; Silver HiU Gap, 3500 ft. ; Orchard, 2500 ft. ; Harris I Fl. Jam. 

 5116, 5255, 5335, 5372, 5382, 5489, 5520, 5574, 5734, 5839, 5841, 5844, 5864, 5336. 

 A tree 25-30 ft. high. Leaves elliptical, narrowly elliptical, or oblong- 

 elliptical, more or less attenuated at both ends or obtuse, areolate on both 

 surfaces, nerves impressed or flat above, prominent beneath, glabrous 

 above, tomentellous beneath, 6-12 cm. 1., 2 "2-6 "5 cm. br. Inflorescence 

 tomentellous. Perianth, outer segments 1-5-2 mm. 1., inner 3-4 mm. 1. 

 Berry globose, black, 1'2 cm. in diam. 



3. P. Upbaniana Mez in Jahrb. Bot. Gart. Berl. v. 143 (1889) ; 

 infloi'escence few-flowered, much shorter than the leaves, 

 branchlets 1 -flowered at the apex or with a few subumbellate 

 flowers ; flowers 3-4 mm. 1. ; outer segments of perianth about 

 ^ as long as the inner ; filaments a little longer than the anthers ; 

 anthers of the inner ring 2-celled. 



" Jamaica, Dr. Wright ? " in Herb. Kew. ! — Martinique. 



A tree or shrub. Leaves broadly elliptical, nerves impressed above, 

 prominent beneath, veins inconspicuous, glabrous above except sparingly 

 puberulous on central nerve, puberulous beneath, 12-18 cm. 1., 4-8 5 cm. 

 br. Berry globose, transversely compressed, 1*5 cm. 1., 1*6-1 "7 cm. br. 



4. PHCEBE Nees. 



Leaves in P. montana subtriplinerved. Perianth persistent in 

 fruit, segments equal. Stamens 9 ; anthers of the outer ring 4-celIed, 



Fig. iQ.— Phoebe montana Oriseb. 



A, Portion of flowering branch X |. 



B, Flower-bud X 10. 



C, Periantli-segment with an outer and an 



inner stamen X 10. 



G, Fruit cut lengthwise X §. 



D, Alternate perianth-segment with an 



outer stamen and a staminode X 10. 



E, Pistil X 10. 



F, Fruit X 'i- 



