18 CALYCIFLOR^. 



ends of the branches, Racemes terminal, axillary (?), 

 solitary, many-flowered, length of the leaves, erect ; flow- 

 ers sessile, minute. Calyx 5-toothed, internally villous 

 contracted towards the limb, urceortite. Stamens 10, ex- 

 serted. Fruit unknown. 



This species must be rare. If does not appear to have 

 been met with by any Botanist, with the exception of 

 Swartz. 



III. Conocarpus. Button Tree. 



Calyx 5-fid, deciduous. Petal? o • Stamens 

 5-10, exsertcd : anthers cordate. Ovary com- 

 pressed, bi-ovuled : style 1, simple. Fruit suber- 

 ose, coriaceous, scale-like, closely imbricated, 

 indehiscent : seed 1, pendulous \ cotyledons in- 

 voluted. 



Trees or shrubs ; leaves alternate, entire : flowers small, 

 yellowish, in heads. Name from kovos a cone, and Kapms 

 a fruit. 



1. Conocarpus erecta. Upright Button Tree, 

 or West India Alder. 



Leaves lanceolate attenuated at both ends fre- 

 quently biglandulose at thu base, heads ot flowers 

 racemed. 



A!ni fructu, laurifolia arbor maritima,, Shane, II. 18. t. 

 161. f. 2. — Rudbeckia laurifolia maritima, Anun. Herb. 

 581. — InnominatM, Plum. Ic. 135. t. 144, 1. 2. — Alnus 

 maritima, Flak. aim. 18. t. 140. f. 3. — Conocarpus Man- 

 ghana, Cattsb. Car. 11. 33. t. 33. — C. erecta, Jacq. Amer. 

 78. t. 52. f. I. 



11 A B. Common along the sea-shore. 



F. L. Autumn. 



A low tree, 10 30 feet in height, much branched: 

 brancnes coloured, towards the extremity angulose, green, 

 glabrous. Leaves irregularly alternate, lanceolate, acu- 

 minate at both ends, entire, thickish, almost nerveless, gla- 

 brous, greasy to the toueh : petiole short, occasionally 

 with a sessile subrotund depressed glandule at ihe base ot 

 the attenuated port. on of the leaf, souk times on one, at 



