140 EUTACB^. 



proceeding from an emarginate scale (wMch, howeTer, 19 sometimes abortive). Ovary 

 3-ceIled: cells biovulate; style short, tripartite, "Pericarp dry, woody, 3 (-2) -angular. 

 Embryo albuminous, straight." — Trees without branches, bearing pinnate leaves and large 

 panicles at the extremity of the stem ; leaflets mtdtijugal, oblique at the iase : rhachis 

 woody ; panicle constituted of numerous corymbiform cymes: flowers red. 



34. S. simplex, L. Leaflets 20-40-jugal, pubernlous and glabrate beneath, oblong- 

 lanceolate or linear-lanceolate acuminate, or falcate, crenate or quite entire : petiole sub- 

 cylindrical; ipanicle powdery. — SI. t.Yl\. — S. glabrescens. Planch. I: a form with the 

 villous stamen-scales abortive, and the filaments consequently hypogynous, subulate, glabrous. 

 — Stem slender, resembling a Palm, 20'-50' high ; leaves and panicles several feet long ; 

 leaflets extremely variable, opposite or alternate, sessile or petiolulate, cordate or obliquely 

 rounded at the base, crenate below the middle or to the top, or repand and quite entire.—-. 

 Hab. Jamaica !, Dist., Pd., Al., March, common in the lower limestone-hills. 



12. CASTELA, Turf. 



Flowers dioecious. Calyx 4-paitite. Stamens 8, proceeding from a disc : anthers extrorse. 

 Ovaries 4, distinct, uniovulate : style 4-partite. Carpids drupaceous. Embryo straight, 

 included within a thin albumen : cotyledons leafy. — Low spiny shrubs ; leaves simple, 

 small, quite entire, articulated mth the branch ; flowers cltistered or solitary in the axils. 



25. C. erecta, Turp. Spines usually extra-axillary; leaves lanceolate, subsessile, 

 tapering at the base, silky-pubescent beneath ; divisions of the style revolute. — Ann. Mus. 

 7. t.'a B ; Sot. Misc. 1. t. 55 ; As. Gr. Gen. Bor. Amer. t. 158. — C. Nicholsonii, Hook.! 

 — ^Leaves 4"'-6"' long. — Hab. Antigua !, iWcAofo. ; [Texas!]. 



13. PlCKJiNA, Lindl. 



Flowers polygamous. Calyx 5 (-4) -fid. Stamens 5 (-4), exserted, proceeding from a disc. 

 Ovaries 3, distinct : style 3-partite. Carpids drupaceous : seeds solitary, ascending. Em- 

 bryo exalbnminous, undivided. — A tree; leaves impari-pinnate ; flowers in corymbiform, 



26. P. excelsa, Lindl. — Act. Holm. 1788, t. 8. — Quassia, Sw. Q. polygama, Linds. 

 Simaraba excelsa, DC. — A high tree ; leaflets 9-11, opposite, petiolulate, oblong or oblong- 

 lanceolate, with a blunt point, leathery, glabrous, quite entire, 4"-2" long ; panicles axiUary, 

 pubescent, much exceeded by the leaf ; calyx minute ; petals 1'" long, oblong, pale-yellowish- 

 green ; drupes globose, black, 6"'-'i"' diam. — Hab. Jamaica !, Macf, Pd., Al., common in 

 the lowlands; Antigua!, Nichols., St. Vincent!, Anders. 



14. PICRAMNIA, Sw. 



Flowers dioecious. Calyx 3-5-fid. Petals 3-5 (-0), small, pointed. Stamens 8-5, 

 opposite the petals, inserted below a disc. Ovary 2-3 -celled : cells biovulate : stigmas 2-3, 

 subsessile. Pericarp baccate; seeds solitary, pendulous. Embryo exalbnminous, undivided. 

 — Shrubs or low trees ; leaves impari-pinnate : leaflets ttsually alternate, petiolulate ; flowers 

 clustered : clusters in long, slender racemes. 



27. P. pentandra, Sw. Leaflets 5-9, ovate-oblong, pointleted, glabrous ; racemes 

 pubernlous, pendulous, often divided at the base, nearly as long as the leaves ; petals 5, 

 oblong-hnear, exceeded by the stamens ; berries oblong-ovoid or ovdd, rounded at both 

 ends.-^Mch. Cub. *. 36 A. — P. micrantha, Tul. — A shrub, 10'-15' Ugh; leaflets papery, 

 shining, 3"-2" long : veins reticulated, prominulous on both sides ; petals 1'" long ; berries 

 S"' long, 3'" broad, reddish, at length dark-blue, or black, shining. — Hab. Jamaica (2k/.) ; 

 Antigua !, iVwAofe ; Montserrat; [Cuba!, Guadeloupe!]. 



28. P. antidesmoides, Gr. (». sp). Leaflets 5-7, lanceolate-elliptical, with a bluntish 

 point, glabrous ; ? racemes puberulous, pendulous, at length twice as long as the leaves: 

 petals 5, linear ; berries obovoid, tapering from below the rounded top to the base.— Leaf- 

 lets papery, 4"-2" long, li"-l'' broad: veins rather prominent beneath ; petals of $ 1'" 

 long, male unknown ; berries shiaing, 6"'-8"' long, 3"'-4"' broad. — Hab. Trinidad !, O. 



