44 THALAMI FLORA;. 



I have not yet had an opportunity of examining this plant. 

 According to the Hortus Jama'icensis, it is a fine timber-wood. 



2. Lajtia Thamnia. Axillary -flowered LcBtia. 



Flowers apetalous, peduncles axillary usually 3- 

 flowered subdivided, leaves ovato-oblong acuminate 

 obscurely crenulated shining. 



Browne, Jam. 245. t. 25. f. 2 Swartz, Prod. 83. Fl. Ind. 

 Occ. 950. 



HAB. Common in limestone districts. Lower hills of St 

 Andrew's, St David's, and Port- Royal. 



FL. May July. 



A shrubby tree, about 8 feet in height : branches'subflexuose, 

 glabrous, towards their extremities compressed. Leaves alter- 

 nate, petiolate, oblong, acuminate with the apex obtuse, very 

 indistinctly crenulated, venose, glabrous, shining, " when held to 

 the light pertuse" (St0.~) : petiole short, terete, slightly chan- 

 nelled. Peduncles axillary, solitary, an inch in length, 3-cho- 

 tomously divided, bearing 3 pedicelled flowers. Flowers size 

 of those of the common myrtle, white with a tinge of rose-colour. 

 Sepals petaloid, roundish, concave, externally puberulous. Petals 

 0. Filaments many, subulate, erect, pubescent : anthers round- 

 ish, compressed, yellow. Disk villous. Ovary spherical, pen- 

 tagonal, incano-villous : style short, thick : stigma obtuse. 

 Capsule spherical, size of a lime, fleshy, cinereo-velutine, 1-cel- 

 led, 5-valved, many-seeded : valves fleshy, " in time revolute" 

 (Sw). Seeds arillated, attached to six prominent parietal lon- 

 gitudinal wedge-shaped purple flfcshy placentae. 



A very common shrub. It is sometimes called Wattle-wood 

 by the Negroes, from their employing the long branches in 

 constructing their houses. 



ORDER XVI. VIOLARIE^E 



Sepals 5. Petals 5, hypogynous, equal or unequal, 

 with an obliquely convolute aestivation. Stamens 5, 

 alternate with the petals, occasionally opposite, in- 

 serted on a hypogynous disk : anthers 2-locular, 

 bursting inwards, either separate or cohering: fila- 

 ments dilated, elongated beyond the anthers. Ovary 

 1 -celled: style 1, usually declinate, with an oblique 



