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CALYCI FLORAE. 



Myrti foliis arbor cortice argenteo? Shane, Hist. II. 78 

 t. 187. f. 3. — Arbor foliis cordatis myrtineis oppositis, 

 baccrs dispermis ; Browne Jam. 370. — Petaloma myr- 

 tilloides, Swartz. Fl. Ind. Occ. II. 833. — Mouriria myr- 

 tilloides, DC. Prod. III. 7. 



HAB. St John's hills. 

 FL. April. May. 



There appears reasons for doubting whether the plant 

 of Swartz, be identical with that of Sloane and Browne. 

 The latter describe their plant as being a tree, twenty 

 feet in height. As I have not met with the plant, I give 

 the description of Swartz. 



A shrub, 2 -3 feet in height, with the bark ferrugineous 

 with silvery white spots : leaves subsessile, ovate, nerve- 

 less, entire. Peduncles axillary, soli'ary, longer than the 

 petiole, 1-flowered. Flowers rather large, white. Calyx 

 urceolate, 5-fid : divisions patent, reflected, persistent. 

 Petals 5, shortly clawed, oblong, acuminate, patent, de- 

 ciduous. Stamens 10: filaments subulate, erect : anthers 

 rather large, biporose, yel low. Style rather thick, curved 

 at the apex : stigma obtuse. Berry ovate, 1-seeded, black, 

 shining. 



CRDEPv LXVIII COMBRETACE.E. 



Flowers hermaphrodite, rarely, from abortion, 

 polygamous. Tube of the Calyx adhering to the 

 ovary; limb 4-5-lobed. Petals none, or 4-5, al- 

 ternating with the lobes of the calyx, inserted on 

 the apex of the tube. Stamens with a similar 

 insertion : anthers 2-celled, opening by 2 longi- 

 tudinal clefts. Ovary l-celled; ovules 2-4, pen- 

 dulous from the apex: style 1; stigma simple. 

 Fruit drupaceous, berried, containing a nut, l- 

 celled, by abortion 1-seeded, indehiscent, general- 

 ly furnished with wings: seed pendulous, filling 

 the cavity of the pericarp, exalbuminose : embryo 



