ANONACEJE. 5 



1. Tetracera Jaiuicensis. Jamaica Tetracera. 



Leaves ovali-oblu * somewhat acute prolonged at 

 the base subglabro^ subserrulated, peduncles race- 

 mose glabrous som< hat rough. 



De Cand. Syst. I. 4 Prod. I. 68. 



HAB.. St Thomas in he Vale, common. 



FL. December. 



A shrub, subscami supporting itself on neighbouring 

 plants : branches teret towards their extremities hispid, co- 

 loured. Leaves with i atures towards the apex, penni- 

 nerved with the nerv- on the under surface hispidulous, 5 

 inches long, and '2\ u>le keeled. Panicle terminal 

 and axillary, erect, i Flowers yellow, showy, pedi- 

 celled. Calycine sepa 5 : the 2 inner the largest, roundish, 

 concave, externally pi ; ulous ; internally sericeous: the 3, 

 outer small, membi >us. Petals 5, obovato-oblong, 

 rounded, deciduous. ! aens oo, yellow: filaments dilated at 

 the apex, bearing the ; u>rs at the sides. Ovary bilocular: 

 style curved, club-i Limata 2, capitate. Capsules 

 2-4, large, glabrous, a\ ! with the persistent style. 



This is a showy plan M! appears to have been first collected 



by Mr Wiles, and fm (escribed by Prof. De Candolle, who 



met with a specimen in herbarium of A. B. Lambert, Esq. 



For an illustration of tl lit, the reader is referred to Geertner, 

 J. 336, t. 69. 



ORDER V. ANONACE.E. 



Calycine sepals 1-, short, persistent, very sel- 

 fdom free, more coi only united into a 3-4-fid, or 

 |S-4-partito calyx. etals 6, hypogynous, in two 

 pows, coriaceous, wit a valvular aestivation. Stamens 

 numerous, placed cl* y together and covering a large 

 hypogynous usually i inisphericaldisk: filaments very 

 short : anthers adun turned outwards, with an en- 

 larged 4-cornered concctivum, which is sometimes 

 ^nectariferous. Ova > usually numerous : styles 

 short : stigmata sin: . Fruit composed of a num- 

 ber of carpels, whic re either succulent or'dry, ses- 



