6 CALYC1FL0RJE. 



stamens 12-20, leaves very entire shining ovato* 

 lanceolate, Iruit subglobose. 



A mygdalus foliis parvis, Nicolson's Doming. 154 — JMyr- 

 tifolia arbor, foliis latis subrotundis. florealbo, Shane, Hist. 

 II. 79 t. 193. f. 1. — Primus sphcerocarpa, Swartz, Fl. 

 Ind. Occ. 927. — Cerasus sphcerocaipa, Loisel. in Du- 

 ham. ed. nov. V. 4,—Bot. Mag. 3141. 



II A B. Common, in the lower mountains. 



FL. February. 



A tree, 15-20 feet in height. Leaves alternate, petio- 

 late, ovato-lanceolate with the apex blunt, indistinctly 

 nerved, very glabrous, shining: peiiole terete. Racemes 

 axillary, solitary or rarely 2 together, much shorter than 

 the leaves. Flowers small, numerous, shortly pedicelled, 

 white, slightly fragrant : pedicels each furnished with a 

 minute bractea at the insertion. Calyx turbinate, 5-ra- 

 rely 4-toothed ; teeth minute, patent. Petals 5, rarely 

 4, rounded, waved, slightly clawed, alternating with the 

 teeth of the Calyx. Stamens 12-20, rather longer than 

 the petals ; filaments subulate, submonadelphous at the base, 

 inserted into the cup -shaped yellow nectary, adherent to 

 and covering the inner surface of the tube of the calyx. 

 Ovary ovate : style length of the stamens : stigma capi- 

 tato-depressed. Fruit spherical, size of a small cherry, 

 purple, ripening in August : kernel ol a warm acrid taste, 

 with a strong flavour of Prussic acid. 



The flowers of some trees of this species are imperfect, 

 and in such the fruit is never perfected. 



IV. Rubus. Bramble. 



Calyx 5-cleft, naked. Petals 5, Stamens so 

 Fruit superior of several single-seeded juicy drupes 

 with sublateral styles, placed on a protuberant 

 spongy receptacle. 



Shrubs, or more rarely herbaceous plants: stems bien- 

 nial, in general prickly; usually growing in hedges, or in 

 waste places. The fruit of all the species is edible. — 

 l\ame derived from the Latin ruber. 



1. Rubus Jamaicensis. Janiaica Bramble 

 or Black-berry. 

 Stem anguloso-sulcated villous, prickles scat- 



