112 THALAMI FLORAE. 



umbilicato, Sloane, II. 80. t. 194. Muntingia fruticosa villosa, 

 foliis serratis oblongis uno latere brevioribus, Browne, 245. 

 M. calabura, Gceitn. 1. t. 59. Jacq. Am. t. 107. Swartz, Obs. 

 211. 



HAB. Common on the low dry hills. 



FL. Throughout the year. 



A tree about 15 feet in height : brandies horizontally spread- 

 ing, villoso-tomentose with viscoso-capitate hairs at their extre- 

 mities. Leaves alternate, shortly petiolated, oblongo-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, unequal and sub-cordate at the base, nerved, deep 

 green and pubescent above, rufescenti-tomentose with viscid 

 hairs beneath. Stipules twice the length of the petiole, seta- 

 ceous. Peduncles supra-axillary, 2-3 together, 1-2 inches 

 long, terete, viscoso-villous, one-flowered. Flowers white. 

 Bracteas 3-4, at the base of the peduncles, setaceo-subulate. 

 Calyx 5-7 partite nearly to the base ; divisions lanceolate, at- 

 tenuated at the apex, externally villoso-pubescent, internally 

 concave, deciduous. Petals of the same number as the calycine 

 lobes, spreading,slightly clawed at the base, roundish, undulated 

 at the margin. Filaments numerous, erect : anthers yellow, 

 didymous. Ovary globose, lobulated, encircled at the base 

 with a hairy ring : stigma sessile. Berry, size of a gooseberry, 

 green. 



IV. BANCROFTIA. 



Calycine sepals 8, persistent. Petals 8. Stamens 

 8, hypogynous. Style short : stigma radiato-6-fid. 

 Berry 6-celled, co-seeded : seeds minute, nidulant in 

 the pulp. 



Named, in honour of Dr Edward Nathaniel Bancroft of Ja- 

 maica, a zealous cultivator of Botany, as well as the other bran- 

 ches of Natural History, and author of several esteemed works 

 on medical subjects. 



1 . Bancroftia diffusa. Spreading Bancroftia. 



HAB. Morce's Gap, and road to New-Haven, St George's. 



FL. October. 



Stem herbaceous, suffruticose at the base, several feet in 

 length, supporting itself on neighbouring shrubs : branches 

 long, terete, glabrous. Leaves alternate, petiolate, ternate, 

 with the middle leaf the longest ; leaflets lanceolate, acuminate, 

 subentire, nerved, glabrous : common petiole about 2 inches in 

 length, terete, glabrous : petiolules of the leaflets short. Ra- 

 cemes terminal, simple, 6-8 inches in length : flowers shortly 

 pedicelled, greenish-white : common peduncles angulose : pedi- 

 cels half an inch in length, furnished at the base with a linear 

 bractea of the same length. Sepals 8, narrow, lanceolate, per- 



