284 LAURINE^. 



flowers smaller (I'" diam.) : and still more similar to 0. strumosa, Gr. (0. coriacta, PI. 

 Carib.), of Guadeloupe, which is remarkable by its exactly globose fruit constricted between 

 the berry and cupule : its flowers are unknown, but the leaves do not quite agree with 0. 

 jfaniflora. Leaves 6"-8" long, 2'' broad : primary veins 7-10 on each side of the midrib, 

 nearly equidistant : in 0. strumom there are 4-6 veins, and the superior more distant. — 

 Hab. Jamaica !, 8w., in mountain woods : not named in Swartz's collection. 



21. O. cernua, Ns. Glabrous ; leaves chartaceoua, oblong, oblong-lanceolate or elHp- 

 tical-obloug, reticulated-veiny : primary veins and neiieork prominulous on both sides ; 

 panicles perfectly glabrous, spreading, lax ; pedicels longer than the flower, cernuous before 

 anthesia ; cah/x glabrous outside : lobes oblong, blunt ; anthers quadrate, oblong : filaments 

 short, 3 interior biglandular : sterile stamens in iJ ; stigma minutely peltate ; cupule 

 cupuliform, one-third to one-fourth as long as the ovoid-oblong berry, distinct from the 

 smooth, thickened pedicel. — IJaurus martinicensis, Sieb. Mart. 79 {non Jacq.). L. exaltata, 

 Sieb. Mart. I (non Sw). 0. marowynensis, Miq. ! — Easily distinguished from the glabrous 

 panicles, black in drying, with yeUow anther-valves, the cernuous pedicels and reticulated 

 leaves.^A middle- or small-sized timber-tree; leaves 9"-3" long, 3J"-l"broad; calyx in- 

 fundibular, powdery inside, 1'" diam. ; cupule 4'" broad, 4'" high, 2i'"-3"' deep : border 

 thick : berry 8"'-10"' long, 6'" diam., purple. — Hab. Dominica !, Imr., uncommon ; [Gua- 

 deloupe!, Guiana I, equatorial Brazil I]. 



22. O. coriacea, Ns. {exclus. syn. Sw.). Branohlets and spreading panicles strigiUose- 

 puberulous; leaves rigid, chartaceous, elliptical or ohovate, usually rounded at the top, 

 reticulated-veiny, glabrous, usually bearded beneath in the vein-axils : costate veins and 

 network prominulous on both sides ; pedicels longer than the flowers, spreading ; calyx 

 pubemlous : lobes roundish ; stigma minute ; cupule cupuliform, one-flfth as long as the 

 ovoid-oblong or oblong berry, distinct from the rugulose, thickened pedicel. — A lofty timber- 

 tree ; leaves 8"-4" long, 3"-2" broad ; calyx 1'" diam. ; cupule 4'" diam., 2'" high : mai'gin 

 thin, appressed: berry 10"'-12"' long, 6'" diam. — Hab. Dominica!, Imr., in mountain 

 wood^; [Portorico, Guadeloupe]. 



9. AYDENDRON, JVi. aad: ifer<. (1833.) 



(Gojppertia, Ns. 1836.) 



Calyx-limb 6-i)artite, tardily deciduous, spreading from the persistent tube. Fertile 

 stamens 9 ; anthers 3-celled. Berry supported by a truncate cupule. — Leaves alternate ; 

 flower-fascicles paniculate. 



23. A. citrifolium, Ns. Brauchlets glabrate ; leaves chartaceous, oblong, bluntish or 

 bluntly pointleted, glabrous, polished on both sides : veins delicate, not prominulous : petiole 

 channelled, subdeourrent ; panicles fascicled, strigillose-puberulons, much exceeded by the 

 leaf: pedicels slender; flowers hermaphrodite; cah/x-tube minnte, much shorter than the 

 roundish segments ; B exterior anthers roundish, strigiUose below the cells, 3 interior stamens 

 biglandular, sterile obsolete ; berry . . . . — A tree ; leaves 6"-4" long, 2"-li" broad : petiole 

 5"'-6"' long ; panicles 3"-3", pedicels 1^'" long ; calyx scarcely 1'" diam. ; stigma minute. 

 •^Hab. Trinidad !, Cr., at S. Anns ; [equat. Brazil I]. 



24. A. bracteatum, Ns. Brauchlets tomentose, glabrescent ; leaves rigid, coriaceous, 

 elliptical-oblong or elliptical, glabrous : primary veins costate, 7-11 on each side of the' 

 midrib, prominulous beneath, secondary delicate ; panicles short, corymbiform, pedunded, 

 exceeded by the leaves : peduncle strigiUose-pubeacent ; bracts large, subpersistent, tomen- 

 tose ;" flowers hermaphrodite ; calyx- tube globose : segments rounded; cupule half as long 

 as the ovoid berry."— Leaves 6"-3" long, 3"-li" broad; peduncles 3" long. — Hab. S. 

 Vincent {Ns.) ; [Guadeloupe !, ForstrSm in Hb. iSw.]. 



25. A. sericeum, Gr. Branohlets and panicles sericeous; leaves rigid, chartaceous, 

 elliptical-oblong or ovate-oblong, with a bhmtish point, subacute at the base, glabrescent 

 above, sihjery-subsericeous and shining beneath : principal veins 4 on each side of the 

 midrib, unequally distant, costate, prominent beneath; veinlets reticulated, prominulous be- 

 neath; panicles peduncled, often as long as the leaf ; pedicels short, clavate; flowers dioe- 

 cious; cah/x-tube turbinate, shorter than the oval lobes; 6 exterior anthers roundish, with 

 oval valves, 3 interior stamens biglandular, sterile 3 ; berry . . . . — Eudlicheria, Ns. Gap- 



