196 THALAMIFLORJE. 



the base, rostrate at the apex with the beak incurved, roundish, 

 slightly compressed, ferrugineo-birsute : seed single, obovato- 

 globose, mucronate at its lower end, with a slight depressed 

 streak for receiving the setaceous funicule which is inserted at 

 the rounded apex ; episperm or integument very hard. 



This is a very common tree in the higher mountains, and it 

 is singular that it should have hitherto escaped the notice of 

 Botanists. The wood is very soft and friable. It is commonly 

 called the Sumach. The old leaves acquire a bright red colour 

 previous to being shed. 



II. GALIPEA. 



Calyx short, 5 -toothed. Petals 5, united into a 

 hypocrateriform corolla, or very much approximated, 

 with a short pentagonal tube, and with the lobes pa- 

 tent and acute. Stamens 4-7, hypogynous, subad- 

 herent to the petals, unequal, sometimes all of them 

 fertile, or 2 larger and antheriferous, and 2-5 shorter 

 and sterile. Nectary cupuliform. Styles 5, united into 

 one, constituting a 4-5-sulcated stigma. Carpels 5, 

 or fewer from abortion, obtuse, cocculiform, sessile, 

 with the endocarp separable. Seeds from abortion 

 solitary : cotyledons large, corrugated, biauriculated. 

 -De Cand. 



Shrubs or trees : leaves alternate, simple, or plurifoliate. 

 Name, from a South- American appellation of one of the species. 



1. Galipea pentaphylla. Five-leaved Galipea. 



Leaves 5-3-foliate, leaflets oblong obtuse at both 

 ends glabrous, panicle terminal, flowers pentandrous. 



HAB. Road from St Michael's Chapel to Green Valley 

 Works, and below Moccha Works, Port- Royal. 



FL. July. 



A.tree, about 30 feet in height : branches terete, ash-colour- 

 ed, glabrous. Leaves 5- rarely 3-foliate ; leaflets petiolulated, 

 oblong, rounded at both ends, entire, glabrous, pellucido-punc- 

 tulated, nerved and veined : petiole elongated, terete : petiol- 

 ules \ an inch in length. Panicle terminal : common peduncle 

 elongated, dividing into about 5 branches, each of which are 

 subdivided. Flowers shortly pedicelled, very numerous, not 

 large, of a yellowish colour. Sepals 5, unequal, rounded, mi- 

 nutely puberulons externally, imbricated. Petals 5, hypogy- 



