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lou9 veins ; ochreje rusty-Tillons ; racemes simple : pedicels fasciculate, longer than the flower ; 

 berry " ovoid-oblong." — Bot. Mag. t. 3166. — k high, few-branched tree ; leaves with a lax 

 network of veins, a"-6" diam. : petiole thick, 2"'-3"' long, adnate to the spreading, short 

 ochrea ; flowers small, greenish. — Hab. Antigua I, WullscM., in mountain-woods ; [French 

 islands !, Guiana !] . 



6. C. latifolia, Lam. Leaves roundish, glalrous : 'primary and secondary veins im- 

 mersed above, prominulous teneath : oohreee split, rounded ; racemes compound : pedicels 

 about as long as the flower, jointed above the middle ; berry " ovoid." — Mart. Fl. Bras. 14. 

 t. 19. — Ahigii tree; leaves 24"-8" diam., shortly petioled : tertiary veins not prominulous; 

 branches of the terminal panicle simple, spreading-erect ; calyx 1'", berry " 3'" " long. — 

 Hab. Trinidad I, iocM., In woods ; [Guiana!]. 



** Calyx h-fi'd; ochrece iuhnlar. 



7. C. leoganensis, Jacq. Leaves roundish or ovate-roundish, blunt or obtusate, 

 cordate or rounded at the base, glabrous, polished on both sides with the primary veins slightly 

 prominulous beneath ; racemes simple, virgate : pedicels single or temate, jointed below the 

 top, about as long as the flower , calyx-tube tm'binate ; stamens exserted ; berry . . . . — • 

 Jacq. Amer. Fict. t. 260./. 30 : a lesrf. — ^C. flavescens, Jacq. {ib. t. 112 : with globose pur- 

 ple berries), is probably a narrow-leaved form of the same. — ^A shrub ; leaves 5"-2" diam. : 

 petiole 4'" long : ochrese tubular, deciduous ; racemes peduncled, 6"-4" long : pedicels un- 

 equal, exceeding the bracts ; calyx 14'" diam., 5-fid to the middle. — Hab. Jamaica !, Pd., 

 March, Wils., on rocks near the sea ; [Haiti]. 



' 8. C. teuuifolia, L. {ex syn. F. Br), Lam. Leaves small, elliptical, pointed (rarely 

 bluntish), rounded or subacute at the base, glabrous : veins reticulated, slightly prominulous, 

 chiefly beneath ; racemes simple, or 2-3.-partite, erect : pedicels single, jointed below the 

 top, somewhat shorter than the flower ; calyx-tube ovato-conical ; stamens exserted ; berry 

 " 3-angular." — Br. Jam. t. 14. /. 3. — ^Linnseus's observation in Amoen. Acad, does not 

 agree with Browne's plant, but may partly be referred to C. nivea, Jacq. Allied to C. 

 cubensis, Meisu. !, which has however smaller flowers. A low tree ; leaves 3"-2" long, 

 20"'-12"' broad ; petiole 8"'-4"' long : ochrese 6"'-4V' long, veinless, somewhat lax, deci- 

 duous ; racemes shortly peduncled, 4"-2" long : pedicels 1^'" long, much exserted, horizontal ; 

 calyx 2'" long : tube longer than the lobes. — Hab. Jamaica I, Al., March, in the hilly, 

 interior districts, 



§ 2. Flowers very shortly pedicellate : pedicels equalling the minute bracts, jointed at the 

 base; calyx 5-fid; ochrece tubular, loose. 



9. C. Flumieri, Or. Leaves broadly ovate-oblong, bluntish, usually cordate at the 

 base, glabrous : primary veins prominulous, chiefly beneath ; racemes compound at the base : 

 branches elongated, lax, spreading, or nodding : flowers single, somewhat distant ; pedicels 

 jointed at the base; berry large, ovate-conical. — Flum. Ed. Burm. t. 146./. 1, quoted by 



Swartz, but an uncertain synonym from its spikes being simple. — C. excoriata, Sid. (non 

 Jacq.). — ^Allied to C. paniculata, Meisn., but leaves larger and perfectly glabrous. An 

 arborescent shrub: bark whitish, excoriated ; leaves 12"-6" long, 8"-4" broad; secondary- 

 veins delicate : petiole li"-l" long ; ochrese 6'" long, veinless, truncate, deciduous ; panicle 

 subsessile, 3-9-partite, fastigiate : branches 6"-10" long, virgate : pedicels at length scarcely 

 J'" long, equalling the truncate bracts ; calyx-tube campanulate, a little shorter than the 

 rounded lobes : diam. of the limb 3"'-4"' ; stamens exserted ; anthers ovoid-oblong ; berry 

 sulcate, rounded at the base, 8"'-6"' long, 4"'-3"' diam.— Hab. Jamaica!, Fd., Al., March, 

 in mountain-woods. 



§ B. Flowers pedicellate : pedicels jointed at the top. 

 * Calyx 5-fid; pedicels exceeding the minute bracts. 



10. C. Zebra, Gr. (n. j^,). Leaves broad-elliptical, bluntish or apiculate, rounded or 

 minutely emarginate at the base, glabrous, polished above: primary veins prominulous 

 beneath ; racemes simple, lax : pedicels jointed at the top ; calyx-tube ovate-semiglobose ; 

 stamens subincluded ; berry large, ovate-conical. — AUied to C. laurifoUa, Jacq. A very 

 large timber-tree : wood variegated ; leaves 8"-B" long, B"-3" broad, somewhat shining : 



