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pyrenffi l-seeded.— Leaves simple .- down stellate ; glands minute, sessile, shining ; cymes 

 dichotomons, axillary : flowers small, often polygamous. 

 ^ 33. C. fermginea, Sw. Shrnbty; branches tomentose; leaves landeolate-oblong, 

 acuminate, tapering into the petiole, serrate, densely glandular beneath, usually almost 

 glabrate : scurfy down persistent on the midrib (or on all veins) ; cymes many-flowered, as 

 long as or exceeding the petiole ; calyx glabrescent, glandular, 4-mucronate-truncate, half 

 as long as the bluish-white corolla; drupe subglobose, red. — 4'-6' high; leaves 6"-3", 

 calyx l"f long ; drupes 2"' diam.— Hab. Jamaica!, Maqf., Pd., Hartw., M'Nab, in moun- 

 tain-woods, Port Eoyal ; [Cuba !] . 



34. C. reticulata, Siv. Shrubby; branches white-tomentose ; leaves elliptical or 

 oblong, bluntish, rounded at the base, suhentire, powdery or glabrate and rugose above, 

 white-tomentose beneath with the network of veins prominent ; oymes many-flowered, half 

 as long or as long as the leaves ; cah/x white-tomentose, with bluntish teeth, half as long 

 as the powdery coroUa, enlarged and splitting around the globose, powdery drupe. — ^Leaves 

 20"'-l 2'", calyx 1'" long ; drapes IF" diam.— Hab. Jamaica, Wright; [Cuba!]. 



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 12. jEGIPHILA, Jacq, 



Flowers mostly dioeoiously polygamous. Calyx shortly dentate or lobed or truncate. 

 Corolla salver-shaped or infundibular, subequal: tube slender, usually exserted : lobes 4(-5). 

 Stamens 4(-5), equal, in S exserted. Stigma bifid ; lobes hair-shaped or linear, pointed, 

 in ? exserted. Drupe at length 4-pyrenous, or 3-1-pyrenous by abortion : pyreuEC 1- 

 seeded. — Woody plants ; leaves simple, subentire, glandular beneath : petiole jointed near 

 the base ; cymes trichotomous or contracted, axillary or paniculate-terminal. 



* Cymes few-flowered, all axillary. 



35. A, trifida, Sw. Branches cylindrical, glabrate ; leaves leathery, elliptical-lan- 

 ceolate, pointleted, shining-glabrous, tapering into the short petiole ; cymes axillary, con- 

 tracted, usually h-flowered: peduucle as long as or twice as long as the petiole ; calyx 

 leathery, clavate-cylindrical, much longer than the pedicel, 4-dentate, at length splitting; 

 corolla whitish : lobes lanceolate ; drupe ovoid-oblong, included by the cupulate, thickened 

 calyx.-^A shrub ; leaves 2i"-4", calyx 2'", in fruit 4'", corolla-tube 4'", lobes 3'" long. — 

 Hab. Jamaica!, Macf, Pd., in the mountains of Port Koyal. 



36.' A. foetida, Sw. Branches cylindrical, densely pilose and glandular ; leaves char- 

 taceous, oblong, bluntish, glabrescent, ^itee on the midrib beneath, rounded at the shortly ^ 

 petioled base ; cymes reduced into a subsessile, Z-flowered glomerule, axillary or opposite 

 along subaphyUous branchlets ; calyx hispid, membranaceous, obeonical-campanulate, trun- 

 cate-4-mucronate, much shorter than and lax around the corolla-tube ; corolla yellowish : 

 lobes lanceolate ; drupe ovoid-oblong, twice as long as the cupulate, thickened calyx. — A 

 slender or low shrub with narcotic smell : all our specimens are $ ; leaves 2"-4", calyx IV", 

 filiform corolla-tube 6"'-8"', lobes 3'", red drupe 4"' long.— Hab. Jamaica I, At., Pd., List., 

 March, in stony mountains, S. Anus. 



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Cymes many-flowered, axillary, or all opposite in the panicle. 



57. A. axborescens, V. Branches 4s-gonal, sericeous ; leaves chartaceous, obovate- 

 oblong, pointed, glabrescent above, appressed-puberulous beneath, long-tapering into the 

 petiole; cymes many-flowered, contracted-corymbose, axillary, shortly peduncled or sub- 

 sessile, or uppermost opposite in a pyramidal panicle ; calyx sericeous, clavate-infundibular, 

 4-dentate, upper part lax around the corolla-tube; corolla whitish: lobes lanceolate; drupe 

 "obovate, included by the calyx." — Jacq. Amer. Pict. t. 239./. 6: the J flower. Auhl. 

 t. 24. — Manabea, Aubl. Callicarpa integrifolia, Jacq. — A low tree, about 12' high ; leaves 

 12"-^" long, distantly archveiued beneath ; calyx 3'"-4"',' coroUa-tube 4"'-6"', lobes 2"'-li"' 

 long; drupe " size of a pea, green, yellow at the base." — Hab. Trinidad !, Lockh., Or., uni- 

 versal on abandoned land ; [Venezuela, Guiana !, cquat. Brazil !, Peru !]. 



*** Cymes many-flowered, trichotomous, ultimate terminal. 

 38. A. Iffivis, W. Branches subcylindrical, glabrate; leaves chartaceous, elliptical- 



