114 THALAMlFLORiE. 



Swartz, Prod. 81. Obs. 207. 



HAB. Port-Royal mountains ; below Trafalgar house. 



FL. September. 



A tree about 20 feet in height : branches irregular, spread- 

 ing, subterete, glabrous, slightly verrucose. Leaves situated 

 towards the ends of the branchlets, alternate, petiolate, obovate, 

 attenuated at the base, rounded and sometimes subemarginate 

 at the apex, entire with the margin concave, coriaceous, nerve- 

 less, almost veinless, very glabrous, shining above, 2-3 inches 

 long: petiole plane above. Peduncles axillary, solitary, 1- 

 flowered, terete, about, an inch in length, drooping. Flowers 

 rather showy, white, fragrant. Calycine sepals 7, persistent ; 

 the two outer ones small, ovate ; the other five roundish, thick, 

 almost cartilaginous, green, concave, shining. Petals 5, united 

 at the base to form a submonopetalous corolla, spreading, 

 longer than the calyx, subemarginate, deciduous. Stamens nu- 

 merous, submonadelphous, accrete to the base of the petals, 

 with which they are inserted on the torus, encircling the base 

 of the ovary: filaments of an inch in length, subulate, free 

 at the apex, and bearing on each side, about the middle, a linear 

 pollenary locule or anther. Ovary conical, 2-celled : ovules 

 cochleate, attached to the septum : style erect, longer than the 

 stamens, thick, subulate: stigmata 2. Berry (?) juiceless, 

 conical, enclosed within the persistent calyx, falling, when ripe, 

 without separating into valves : seeds silky. 



2. Ternstrcemia crenata. Crenated Ternstrcemia. 



Leaves ovato-lanceolate acuminate with the apex 

 blunt serrato-crenated nerved, peduncles axillary 

 scarcely longer than the flowers 5-bracteolated. 



HAE. Road to Cold-Spring. 



FL. March. 



A tree, about 20 feet in height : branches spreading, angu- 

 lose at their extremities, glabrous. Leaves at the ends of the 

 branches, petiolate, ovato-lanceolate, acuminate with the apex 

 blunt, crenulato-serrate, very glabrous and shining above, glab- 

 rous or faintly puberulous along the midrib beneath, nerved, 

 and minutely reticulato-venose : petiole subterete, plane above. 

 Peduncles axillary, solitary, usually shorter than the petiole, 

 terete, 1-2-flowered : flowers white, fragrant. Bracteoles 5, 

 small, scale-like, rounded, imbricated, appressed to the base of 

 the calyx, ciliated, and pectinulated with a row of minute glan- 

 dules mixed with the hairs. Calycine sepals 5, twice the 

 size of the bracteoles, roundish, ciliated and pectinulated with 

 minute glandules, imbricated. Petals 7-9, (two or more of 

 them as if supplementary, being situated more interiorly and 

 somewhat smaller), oblong, rounded at the apex, cohering to- 

 gether and with the base of the stamens. Stamens oc, in 3 



