214 CALYClFLORfl:. 



globose, 3-gonal, 3-valved, 1-celled ; valves thick, coriaceous. 

 Seeds numerous, angulose, in an orange-coloured filamentose 

 pulp. 



2. Samyda villosa. T^illous Samyda. 



Flowers 10-antherous, peduncles axillary solitary 

 1 -flowered, leaves oblong acute subserrated oblique at 

 the base silky villous beneath. 



Swartz. Fl. Ind. Occ. 758. 



HAB. Mountains. 



FL. Spring. 



An erect shrub : branches terete, pubescent ; branchlets vil- 

 lous. Leaves silky above, ferrugineo-hirsute along the nerves 

 beneath. Flowers rather large, white. Calyx 5-fid to the 

 middle, externally pubescent. Ovary pubescent : style thick: 

 stigma capitate. Capsule large, ovate, fleshy, greenish, pubes- 

 cent, 1-celled, 3-4-valved. Seeds many, ovate, shining: arillus 

 scarlet or pale red. Swarlz. 



II. CASEARIA. 



Stamens 12-30, monadelphous at the base, alter- 

 nately antheriferous, alternately sterile, subulate or 

 spathulate, in general villous or ciliated. De Cand. 



Named, by Jacquin in honour of John Casearius, a clergy- 

 man of the Dutch Church in Cochin-China, and a contributor to 

 the Hortus Malabaricus. 



1. Casearia nitida, Shining Casearia. 



Flowers 8-antherous 5-partite, peduncles axillary 

 cymose, leaves ovate subcordate subentire glabrous. 



Samyda foliis nitidis, laevissime crenatis, rudimentis mollibus 

 rubentibus, racemis tenuioribus alaribus, Browne, 217. t. 23. f. 

 3. S. nitida, Linn, Sp. Plant 557 ? 



HAB. Liguanea. 



FL. March. 



A shrub, about 6 feet in height : branches terete, glabrous. 

 Leaves alternate, petiolate, ovate, subcordate, obtuse, obsoletely 

 crenulated, nerved and veined, very glabrous, shining, mem- 

 branaceous, pellucido-punctulated. Cyme axillary, shorter tban 

 the leaf: pedicels filiform. Flowers of the same size, and bear- 

 ing some resemblance to those of the Hawthorn. Sepals 5, 

 obtuse. Filaments 16, each alternate one club-shaped, red and 

 puberulous towards the apex, more than half the length of the 

 anther-bearing filaments. Ovary conical : style erect : stigma 

 obtuse. 



