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| EsPADEA, Rich. 
Armeniastrum, Lem, 
Calyz turbinato-tubulosus, crassiusculus, 4—5-dentatus, æstivatione valvata, persistens. Corolla tubulosa, 
crassiuscula, tubo subincurvo, a basi sensim ampliore, antice subventricoso, fauce subobliqua, limbo 
4-, 5-, 6-fido, laciniis subacutis, erectis, æstivatione valvata. Sfamina numero laciniarum et iis alterna, 
longe exserta ; filamenta imo tubi inserta, subulato-filiformia, versus laciniam posteriorem declinato- 
conniventia, dein sensim incurvata, apice breviter uncata, glabra; anthere sagittato-oblongæ, 2-lobze, 
versatiles, dorso suspense, glabræ, utrinque rima longitudinali dehiscentes. Stylus tenuiter fili- 
formis, staminibus æquilongus, apice incurvatus; stigma parvum, breviter 2-lamellatum. Discus 
semisuperus, imo ad calycem connatus, pro dimidia parte liber, apice concavus, margine lobis 5-6 
crassis, interdum in appendices 5 longe subulatas mellifluas auctis munito. Ovarium conicum, valde 
depressum, medio disci semiimmersum, tomentosum, 2-loculare, loculis antice et postice positis, 
2-ovulatis, ovulis minutis, subglobosis, medio ad dissepimentum pingue collateraliter affixis. 
Drupa subglobosa, calyce persistente suffulta, carnosa, 2-locularis, endocarpio dissepimentoque mem- 
branaceis, loculis ovatis, monospermis; semen loculum implens, imo ventrali affixum ; testa fusca, 
subplicata, crassiuscule celluloso-fibrosa ; integumentum internum opacum, submembranaceum ; embryo 
exalbuminosus, crassus, cotyledonibus ssepius 4, carnosis, radicula brevissima, infera. 
Arbusculæ Antillane, ramosissime ; folia. alterna, cuneatim oblonga, apice emarginato-truncata vel rotun- 
data, integra, supra nitentia, confertissime penninervia, subtus pubescentia, breviter petiolata: flores 
solitarii, extraaxillares, pedicellati, flavo-tomentosi ; drupa aurantiaca, 
1. EsPADEA AMENA, Rich. in La Sagra, Fl. Cub. ii. 147, tab. 65; ibid. introd. 58; 
A.DC, in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. iii. 348; Walp. Ann. v. 704; Bocq. Adans. iii, 262 : 
Getzia amena in parte, Griseb. Cat. Fl. Cub. 191: fruticosa, ramis subvirgatis, 
punctato-rugosis, glauco-opacis, junioribus ferrugineo-tomentosis; foliis obovatis, 
apice rotundato-truncatis, brevissime subito mucronatis, imo sensim cuneatis, in- 
tegris, marginibus undulatis, subrevolutis, coriaceis, supra nitentibus, glaberrimis, 
 erebre et oblique penninerviis, nervis prominulis, alternatim arcuatim nexis, subtus 
pallidioribus, costa mediana rubella, prominente, pulverulenta, petiolo tenui, to- 
mentello, limbo 7-10-plo breviore: floribus extraaxillaribus, solitariis, subbreviter 
pedicellatis; calyce turbinato-tubuloso, breviter 4-, 5-, 6-dentato, ferrugineo-tomen- 
toso, crassiusculo; corollæ tubo subcurvato, a basi sursum infundibuliformi, superne 
anticeque subventricoso, fauce obliqua, crassiusculo, floride tomentoso, calyce 2-plo 
longiore, limbi lobis 4, 5 vel 6, crassis, acutis, erectis, æstivatione valvatis, tubo 
5-plo brevioribus, 2 posticis paulo majoribus; staminibus 4, 5, 6, insequilongis, ultra 
lobos exsertis, paulo curvatis, postice sursum conniventibus; ovario 2-loculari, in 
diseum magnum 5-lobum semiimmerso, parvo, conico, puberulo, loculis collate- 
raliter 2-ovulatis; drupa subglobosa, 2-loculari, aut abortu 1-loculari, loculis mo- 
nospermis, embryone interdum 4-cotyledonari. In ins. Cuba (Za Sagra): v. s. in hb. 
nost. (Linden, 1801); in hb. Hook., in flore et fructu, Cuba (Wright, 3185). 
A small tree with very numerous spreading branches; the axils are -$ inch apart; 
the leaves are 14-24 inches long, 7-15 lines broad, on a petiole 2-3 lines long; the 
pedicel is 11-23 lines long, inserted on the contrary side to the axil somewhat laterally 
and sometimes 24 lines above it: the calyx is 2 lines long; the tube of the corolla is 33- 
