HOM ALINED. 217 



A shrubby tree, about 8 feet in beigbt : branches subterete, 

 towards their extremities angulose, minutely puberulous. 

 Leaves alternate, shortly petiolate, oblongo-lanceolate, acumin- 

 ate, obtuse, sharply serrated, nerved and veined, subglabrous, 

 2 inches long, and of an inch broad. Common peduncle about 

 a line in length. Flowers numerous, crowded, axillary, on 

 pedicels about 2 lines in length, each furnished with a minute 

 scariose bractea at the base. Calyx 5-partite ; divisions obtuse. 

 Stamens 10, shorter than the sepals, alternating with 10 abor- 

 tive villous filaments. Ovary globose, puberulous at the apex : 

 style erect: stigma capitate. Capsule small, 3-valved, 5- 

 seeded. 



6. * Casearia hirsuta. Hirsute Casearia. 



Flowers 10-antherous 5-partite pubescent!- villous, 

 peduncles lateral crowded 1-flowered, leaves ovate 

 acuminate dentate-serrated hairy above villous be- 

 neath. 



Swartz, Fl. Ind. Occ. 755. 



HAB. Mountains. 



FL, ? 



A shrub: branches pubescent. Leaves large, soft. Peduncles 

 lateral, below the leaves, crowded, 1-flowered. Calycine 

 divisions ovate-lanceolate, villous, whitish. Sterile filaments 

 villous. Style 3-quetrous : stigma capitate. Capsule ovate, 

 acuminate, 3-gonal, 3-valved. Swartz. 



ORDER LIX. HOMALINE^E, 



Calyx 10-30-partite. Petals c. Glandules at 

 the base of the inner calycine lobes, sessile. Stamens 

 between the glandules, opposite to the inner calycine 

 lobes, rarely solitary, generally in fasciculi of 3 s or 6 s . 

 Ovary half inferior, 1-celled : styles 35. Fruit 

 berried or capsular. Seeds small, with the embryo 

 in the middle of a fleshy albumen. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, with deciduous stipules. 

 Natives of the Tropics. Possessed of no known properties. 



I. HOMALIUM. 



Calycine tube adhering to the ovary, obconical 



