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A tree about 15 feet in height : branches erect, terete, glab- 

 rous, rimoso-punctulated. Leaves alternate, equally pinnated : 

 leaflets 2- rarely 3-paired, subsessile, 2-3 inches long, and 1 

 broad, oblong, obtuse or subemarginate at the apex, entire, ob- 

 scurely veined, shining above, glabrous except the midrib which 

 is minutely puberulous beneath, thin, membranaceous, impunc- 

 tate : petiole sub-3-quetrous, striated, glabrous, 2 inches in 

 length. Stipules none. Panicle terminal, sessile, composed of 

 many branches: branches subdivided, compressed, angulose, 

 aureo-puberulo-tomentulose, as also the pedicels }j which are 

 very short. Flowers numerous, white, fragrant, resembling 

 in appearance, as well as in smell, those of the Hawthorn of 

 Europe. Bracteas at the subdivisions of the panicle, minute, 

 ovate, acute. ^Estivation imbricated. Calyx 5-partite, exter- 

 nally puberulous ; divisions rotundo-ovate. Petals 5, roundish, 

 shortly clawed, alternating with and somewhat smaller than the 

 divisions of the calyx. Stamens 7, more usually 8, irregularly 

 inserted between the lobes of an annular fleshy red puberulous 

 disk ; filaments somewhat longer than the calyx : anthers ovate, 

 2-celled. Ovary conical, villous, seated on the disk : style 

 short (?) : stigma obtuse. Drupe size of a small cherry, with 

 the rind glandulose, of a deep purple colour, 1-pyrerie: nut 

 large, chartaceous, 1 -seeded : radicle superior, curved, the size 

 of that of the common pea ; cotyledons fleshy. 



Only some of the trees bear fruit. The flowers would 

 therefore appear to be polygamous. The fertile ones are fur- 

 nished with both stamens and pistil ; in the barren, the latter 

 must be imperfect. This is a handsome tree. It approaches 

 nearly to the genus AMYRIS, but is distinguished from it by 

 several marks, and among others by the leaflets not being pel- 

 lucido-punctate. 



X. SPATHELIA. 



Flowers hermaphrodite. Calyx 5-partite, mem- 

 branaceous, coloured. Petals 5, hypogynous, during 

 estivation imbricated. Stamens 5 ; filaments short, 

 tricuspidate, dilated and villous at the base. Ovary 

 subconical, 3-angular, 3-locular ; locules biovuled : 

 style O : stigmas 3. Drupe oblong, 3-locular, 3-go- 

 nal with the angles alate, sometimes 2-alate and 2-lo- 

 cular. Seeds oblong, solitary in each locule : albu- 

 men fleshy : embryo straight, inverted : cotyledons 

 lineari-oblong, slender ; radicle short De Cand. 



Trees : leaves impari-pinnate ; racemes panicled, subtermi- 

 nal. Name, from 6Ka.6ri a palm, from the shrub before us re- 

 sembling that Family of Plants in several respects. 



