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ORDER XXXII. OLACINE^E. 



Calyx monosepalous, subdentate, at first small, af- 

 terwards enlarged or berried. Petals 4-6, hypogy- 

 nous, subcoriaceous, with a valvular aestivation, either 

 free, or binately united ; disk hairy. Stamens 3-10, 

 hypogynous or epipetalous : filaments compresso-sub- 

 ulate : anthers cordato-oblong, erect, 2-celled. Ovary 

 free, 1-celled, 3-ovuIed : style 1, filiform. Fruit sub- 

 drupaceous, indehiscent, frequently surrounded with 

 the enlarged or berried calyx, by abortion I -celled, 

 1 -seeded: seed pendulous, umbilicated at the base : 

 albumen fleshy, large; embryo small, included within 

 the albumen, ovoid, basilary ; radicle directed to the 

 umbilicus ; cotyledons continuous. De Cand. abbr. 



Trees or shrubs, glabrous ; leaves simple, petiolate, alternate, 

 exstipulated, entire, very rarely none ; flowers small, axillary. 



1. Ximenia montana. Mountain-Plum. 



Peduncles racemose many-flowered unarmed, leaves 

 oblong ernarginate with an awn in the indentation. 



X. multiflora, Jacq. Amer. 106. t. 177. f. 81 X. Americana, 

 De Cand. Prod. I. 



HAB. Not uncommon ; Port-Royal Mountains. 



FL. August. 



A tree with the stem erect ; the branches spreading, terete, 

 angulose, verrucose, and glabrous at their extremities. Leaves 

 alternate, or 2-3 together on short lateral tubercle-like branch- 

 lets, petiolate, lanceolato-oblong, somewhat acute at the base, 

 the apex in some rounded and mucronate, in others emarginate 

 with an awn, entire, glabrous, nerved, obscurely veined, nearly 

 3 inches long and scarcely one broad : petiole one-fourth of an 

 inch long, terete, channelled above with the edges of the groove 

 margined. Raceme axillary, subterminal, solitary, simple, about 

 twice the length of the petiole : flowers yellow, green, shortly 

 pedicelled ; common peduncle angulose. Calyx minute, 4 -fid. 

 Petals 4, lineari-oblong, recurved at the apex, internally vil- 

 lous. Stamens 8, hypogynous, length of the petals ; filaments 

 delicately capillary : anthers linear. Ovary subulato-conical, 

 glabrous, 8-angulose at the base ; style length of the stamens, 

 erect ; stigma obtuse. Drupe size of the Plum of Europe, 



