"4 CALYCIFLORjE. 



Tribe I. Chrysobalanece. 

 I. Chrysobalanus. 



Calyx bell-shaped, 5-fid. Petals 5, clawed. 

 Stamens about 20, uniserial, subequal. Drupe 

 plum-shaped ; putamen ovate, 6-sulcated, G-valved, 

 1-seeded \ kernel fleshy, thick — D C. 



Low trees ; flowers racemed or panicled. 

 Name from x pV aos Gold, and 6a\avo S an acorn ; in allusion 

 to the size, colour, and form of the fruit. 



1. Chrysobalanus Icaco. Cocoa Plum. 



Leaves subrotundo-obovate subemarginate, ra- 

 cemes axillary dichotomous, stamens hairy. 



Frutex fructu ovali coeruleo, Catesb. Car. 1. 25. t. 

 25.-Icaco fructu ex albo rufescente ; et Icaco fructu 

 purpureo, Plum Gen, 44. — Chrysobalanus, Browne, Jam. 

 250. t. 17. f. 5.—Jacq. Am. 154. t. M.—Kunth, Syn. 

 PI. Mq. III. 483.— C. pilocarpus, Meyer. Primit. 

 Essequeb. 193. 



H A B. Morass near Bybrook Estate, St. Thomas in the 

 Vaie. Cultivated. 



FL, March — May. After rains. 



A shrubby tree, about 12 feet in height : branches 

 spreading, of a ferruginous colour, with white papillae. 

 Leaves alternate, nerved, coriaceous, shining above, very 

 glabrous : petiole short, incrassated. Racemes axillary, 

 dichDtomously branched, solitary, shorter than the leaf: 

 common peduncle plane on the inner surface, rounded on 

 the outer, puberulous ; terminal divisions 3-flowered. 

 Flowers shortly pedicelled, wlvte, crowded. Bracteoles 

 ovato-lanceolate, deciduous, a pair below each flower. 

 Calyx 5-partite ; divisions ovate, acute, puberulous, cili- 

 ated, sub-persistent. Petals 5, white, obovato-oblong, 

 o'rtuse, scarcely longer than the calyx, deciduous. Sta- 

 mens numerous; filaments compressed, hairy, length of 

 the petals, persistent. Ovary subrotund, villous ; style 

 arising from one side of the base of i he ovary, length of 

 the stamens, villous; stigma obtuse. Fruit ovah-subrotund, 

 size of a large plum, of a white, yellow, red, or purple 

 colour, glabrous with exception of a few minute scatter- 



