216 CALYCIFLOH.*:. 



style erect, length of the stamens : stigma eapitate. Capsule 

 size of a coffee berry, 3-valved. 



The flowers of this species are many times larger than those 

 of C. PARVIFLORA, and are very fragrant, perfuming the air to 

 a considerable distance. It approaches very near to C. RAMI- 



4. Casearia parviflora. Small-flowered Casearia. 



Flowers 1 0-antherous 5-partite very small, pedicels 

 crowded axillary 1 -flowered, leaves oblong acuminate 

 crenulated or subentire glabrous pellucido-punctu- 

 lated. 



Arbor baccifera, fructu minimo croceo, Sloane, II. t. 211. f. 

 2. Samyda, Browne, 217 S. parviflora, Linn. Spec. 557. 

 Swartz, Obs. 178. Casearia parviflora, Willd. II. 627. De 

 Cand. Prod. II. 49. C. sylvestris, Swartz, Fl. Ind. Occ. 

 752? 



HAB. Common in mountain thickets. 



FL. April August. 



A shrub, 6-10 feet in height: branchlets alternate, nearly 

 horizontally spreading, slightly compressed, virgultose, sub- 

 flexuose, minutely puberulous. Leaves alternate, petiolate, 

 distichal, oblong, acuminate with the apex obtuse, serrato-cre- 

 nulated, glabrous, thin, pellucido-punctulated, nerved and 

 veined : petiole very short. Flowers shortly pedicelled, 20-30, 

 crowded together, axillary, small, of a pale yellow. Pedicels 

 about 3 lines in length, 1-flowered, furnished at their insertion 

 with minute ovate sheathing ciliated marescent scales. Sepals 

 5, roundish-ovate, .concave, minutely ciliated. Fertile stamens 

 10, shorter than the calyx, alternating with the barren filaments, 

 which are shorter, truncated, villose. Ovary conical, sub-3- 

 gonal, green, minutely appresso-puberulous : style very short : 

 stigmata 3, capitate. Capsule small, size of a black pepper, 

 3-valved, about 6-seeded. 



I consider CASEARIA SYLVESTRIS of Swartz to be merely a 

 variety of this species, produced by growing in a shady situa- 

 tion. 



5. Casearia serrata. Serrated Casearia. 



Flowers 1 0-antherous 5-partite small, pedicels 

 crowded axillary 1-flowered on a very short common 

 peduncle, leaves oblongo-lanceolate finely serrated 

 subglabrous pellucido-punctulated. 



HAB. Road from Rose-hill to Peter's Rock, St Andrews. 

 FL. November, December. 





