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19. S. serrulata, L. Leaves soft, oblong or elliptical, serrate, pubescent or glabrate 

 ahose, velvety beneath; flowers campauulate, pubescent j stamens W-li.—Plum.ed.Burm 

 t. 146-/. 2 ; Bot. Mag. t. 550.— S. pubescens, L., partim. S. rosea, Sims ; the form with 

 red and fascicled flowers.— A shmb ; leaves 2"-4" long, variable in being pointed or blunt 

 m the size and number of the mucronate serratures, and in the down of the upper side '■ 

 flowers solitary or fascicled ; calyx white or red, G"'-8"' long : lobes bliint.— Hab Ja- 

 maica! ; March, in the mountains; S. Viucent; Trinidad!: Sieb. 3b. Trin. 46; [Haiti]. 



10. SABYMIA, Gr. 

 (SamydEB sp., Sw) 

 Calyx 5-fid, coroUine : lobes imbricate. Petals 0. Stamens definite, 10, distinct, all 

 fertile, perigynous : filaments very short, inserted upon the throat of the calyx-tube ; anthers 

 oblong. Ovary nuilocular, with 3 (-4) placentas : stigma peltate, subsessile. " Pericarp 

 fleshy, dehiscent : seeds arillate."— A shrub ; leaves of Casearia: sii]<vles minute ; flowers 

 axillary, solitary, subsessile. 



21. S. villosa, (??•.— Samyda, Sw.!—A low, pubescent shrub; leaves (2"-3" long, 

 8"'-12"' broad) oblong, or elliptical, pointed, soft, hairy on both sides, and shaggy with a - 

 rusty down on the nerves beneath, either subentire or serrate, with the serratures bluntish, 

 shortly petioled ; pellucid dots numerous, lines rare; flowers rather small (2'" long), pubes- 

 cent, "white;" calyx 5-fid to the middle, infundibuliform : lobes oblong, blunt, furnished 

 at the base and above the staminal insertion-line with a few small glands ; anthers oblong, 

 yellow, scarcely exceeded by the calyx-lobes.— Hab. Jamaica!, in the mountains: Sw. 



XV. LACISTEMEiE. 



Flowers amentaceous, apetalous. C«^a;4(-6)-partite, corolline. Stamen single, hypo- 

 gynous, inserted within a disc. Pistil paracarpous. Embryo included in the axis of fleshy 

 endospei™ : cotyledons foliaceons. — Woody plants ; leaves not divided, dotted with minute 

 joints : stipules deciduous ; catkins axillary ; bracts furnished with 2-4 accessory, lateral 

 bracteoles. 



1. lACISTEMA, Sm. 



Bracts including a single, hermaphrodite flower : bracteoles 2. Anther-cells distinct. 

 Pericarp baccate, not dehiscent. — Shrubs or trees. 



1. Ii. luyricoides, Sw.! Leaves elliptical-oblong, glabrous, quite entire; catlfins 

 sessile, aggregate, equalling the petiole; stigmas 2-3, sessile. — Act. Helvet. 7. t. 10; Sw. 

 PI. t. 21 : flos. Rudy. Guian. t. 4. Piper aggregatum. Berg. P. fasciculare, Sudy. — 

 A shrub or middle-sized tree ; leaves 4"-6" long : petiole 4"'-6"' long ; catlcins 3-9, cylin- 

 drical ; bracts roundish, somewhat exceeded by the linear bracteoles ; calyx white : seg- 

 ments oblong-lanceolate, shorter than the bract ; disc membranaceous, cupuliform ; stamen 

 exceeding the^hract ; anther bipartite : divisions roundish, with a single, introrse cell ; 

 ovary ovoid, with 2-3 parietal placentas : stigmas linear, recurved, short ; ovules numerous ; 

 berry ovoid, 4'" long. — Hab. Jamaica!, Al., Wils., March; Trinidad!, Lockh., Pd., dr.; 

 [Cuba ! ; Panama ! to Brazil !]. 



XVI. VIOLACEiE. 



Stamens 5, hypogyuous : anther-cells adnate, introrse, exceeded by the membranaceous 

 connective. Pistil paracarpous : placentas 8 ; style simple ; ovules usually anatropous. 

 Pericarp mostly dehiscent, medianicide. Embryo included in the axis of fleshy endosperm : 

 cotyledons mostly flat. — Leaves stipulate, involute during development. 



The Order contains an acrid, usually emetic principle, used in medicine, ixom Tiola tri- 

 color and lonidium striatum. 



1. CORYNOSTYLIS, Mart. (1834.) 

 . (Calyptrion, Cfing. 1824.) 

 Sepals 5. P(?fo/* 5, asymmetrical : anterior long-spurred, two posterior small. Anthers 



