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segments oblong, aiid the calyx f" long.— 4. serrulata, Sw. !, of Haiti, having a valvate 

 corolla, is a Parathesis : A . crmulata, Vent (Choix, t. 6), is the same species. 



8. JACQUINIA, Z. 



Calyx 5 -partite. Corolla S-fid, rotate-salver-shaped, imbricative, crowned at the throat 

 and between the lobes vrith 5, roundish appendages. Stamens inserted into the corolla-tube : 

 filaments subulate, subconnected at the base : anthers exserted, ovoid or deltoid, mucronulate, 

 extrorse, opening by slits. Placenta many-ovulate. Style included : stigma capitate. 

 Berry leathery, several-seeded. — Shrubs or trees; leaves rigid, margined, quite entire; 

 flowers white or orange, in racemes, umbels, or single. 

 ^ 21. J. armillaris, L. Glabrous; leaves cuneate-spathulate or oiovate. Hunt or 

 mucronulate, minutely dotted, revolute at the margin, subsessile, usually whorled ; racemes i 

 terminal, lax; corolla wUte: tube infundibular, twice as long as the calyx. — Sl.t. 190./. 2; 

 Jacq. Amer. Pict. <. 56; Fragm. t. 94:./. J.— J. revoluta, Jacq. — A shrub or tree; leaves 

 4"-li" long, li"-6"' broad, corolla-tube 3'" long, berry 3'" diam., orange. 



o. Leaves cuneate-spathulate, nearly veinless : nodes thick ; racemes few-flowered. — 

 Mart. Fl. Sras. 16. t. 27./. 3.^-Usually shrubby, 4'-6' high, but sometimes a smaE tree, 

 15' high {SI.). 



p. arborea, V. Leaves obovate or spathulajte, more or less veiny beneath : nodes equal ; 

 racemes many-flowered. — Mart. l.c. t. 27./. 2. — Usually arboreous: trunk 4'-30' high 

 (Eyan) ; a shrub or small tree {Wils.). 



Hab. Jamaica!, all coll. (chiefly /8), on maritime rocks; Antigua!, WullscM. (o), Domi- 

 nica !, Imr. (fi), S. Vincent !, Guild. ; Trinidad !, S.eb. Tr. 54, Loclch., on rocky hills ; [Haiti 

 to French islands; Eastern Florida! to Venezuela! and Pernambuco!]. 



22. J. aristata, Jacq. Leaves glabrous, laneeolate-oblong, tapering into a slender, 

 terminal awn, dotkss, contracted at the subsessEe base; racemes terminal, lax, slightly 

 puberulous ; corolla orange : tube campanulate, shortly exceeding the calyx. — Jacq. Fragm. 

 t. 94. /. 2. — J. caracasana, Kth. J. umbellata, A. BO. I J. anrantiaca. Ait. ex specim, 

 Hortens. — A shrub, resembling /. macrocarpa, Cav., but coroUa-tube 3'" long, 1'" longer 

 than the calyx ; leaves 2J"-li" long, 6"'-10"' broad : awn 1'" long,^HAB. Jamaica I, 

 March; [Portorieo!; Venezuela !, on the seashore]. 



9. CLAVIJA, jB. p. 



Flowers polygamous. Calyx 5 (-4) -partite. Corolla rotate, imbricaiive, crowned at the 

 throat with 5-10 roundish appendages. Stamens forming an entire tube in 3 , distinct in 

 $ : authors extrorse, short, usually truncate, opening by slits. Placenta many-ovulate. 

 Btigma blunt. Berry large, several- seeded — ^Trees without branches, bearing large, rosulate, 

 rigid, glabrous leaves at the extremity of the trunk, and elongated, spidform racemes in 

 their axils, or in those of former leaves. 



23. C. ornata, Don. Leaves spathnlate-lanceolate, long-tapering towards the shortly 

 petioled base, blnntish, remotely sei'rate or snbentire : teeth spinescent, incurved : veips 

 costate, delicate, minutely reticulated on both sides ; racemes flaccid, half ox a fourth as long 

 as the leaves : pedicels as long as the scarlet flower. — Jacq. Schosnbr. 1. 116. — Theophrasta 

 longifolia, Jacq. — 20'-2' high ; leaves pale, I'-IJ' long, 3" broad : petiole brown, thick, 

 4"'-6"' long; corolla %"'-4!" diam.— Hab. Trinidad!, Sir R. Woodford; [Venezuela!, 

 Guiana 1, Brazil]. 



CIV. SAPOTE^. 



stamens inserted into the sympetalous corolla, the fertile mostly opposite to its lobes. 

 Ovary superior, syncarpous, 4-13(-2)-celled : ovules single, usually asceuding ; style simple. 

 Pericarp mostly baccate. Seeds hard, either exalbuminous with a large oily embryo, or 

 albuminous with foliaeeous cotyledons: radicle short, mostly inferior. — Woody plants; 

 leaves entire, mostly exsHpulate; pedicels axillary (or lateral), fascicled (or single). 



A milky juice is ueady universal, and in several instances it affords gutta-percha. The 

 eatable fruits are known as Naseberries iSapota, Imcuma, Mimusops), Star-apples (Ohryso- 



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