4 CALYCIFLOIiiE. 



II A B. Mountain woods. Port-Royal Mountains. 



F L. August. 



A spreading tree of moderate height ; branclilets sub- 

 terete, verrucose, villous towanjg the extremities. Leaves 

 alternate, petiolate, subdistichal, about 3 inches in length, 

 ovato-oblong, acuminate, entire, thin, smooth and some- 

 what shining above, pubescent especially along the nerves 

 beneath: petiole very short, villous. Racemes terminal, 

 and in the axils of the subterminal leaves, compound, 

 many-flowered, shorter than the leaves : flowers small, 

 white, pedicelled, 3 — 4 together, furnished with minute 

 subulate bractese at the insertion. Calyx 5- partite ; divi- 

 sions ovate, obtuse, externally puberulous, .persistent. 

 Petals usually only 3 ^tbe place of two others being vacant), 

 white, ovate, obtuse, deciduous. Stamens 3, long, capil- 

 lary, spirally twisted and purple towards the extremity, 

 broader at the base, compressed, puberulous, connected so 

 as to form an urceolate nectary, with a vacant space for 

 the two filaments which are deficient; anthers roundish, 

 purple. Ovary compresso-declinate, villous ; style arising 

 from the side of the ovary, length of the stamens, hairy 

 towards the base ; stigma obtuse, green. Drupe, dry, 

 oblong, truncated at the apex, large, compressed, 3-ribbed 

 on each side, velutino-vilious, green, 1-celled, 1-seeded. 

 The above description agrees pretty closely with that 

 of Swartz, except that the leaves are stated by him to 

 be smooth and shining, and the petiole glabrous. He 

 also describes the raceme as a half a foot in length, from 

 considering, in my opinion incorrectly, the terminal and 

 axillary racemes on each branch as constituting a s : n- 

 glc compound raceme. — The flowers are small and 

 unattractive, and the wood is fragile. 



Tribe II. Jlmygdalcce. 

 III. Cerasvs. Cherry. 



Drupe globose <>r umbilicated at the base, fleshy, 

 very smooth, destitute of a cheesy pollen: nut 

 sub-globose, smooth. — O C. 



Leavrs when young con duplicated. Flowers either on 

 ■•flowered pod eels, m my together, umbellato-fascicula- 

 ted. arising from a scaly bud, and more forward than the 

 leaves ; or branched, terminal, and evolved after the 



