92 calyciflorjE. 



crowded, shortly pedicelled, dioecious. $ Flowers de- 

 ciduous. Calyx coloured, 5 (-4 ? )-toothed : teeth very 

 minute. Petals rounded, white. Filaments 10 (-8 ? ), 

 twice the length of the corolla : anthers white, bi-porose. 

 Rudiments of the pistil in the centre. £ Flowers. 

 Calyx as above. Petals 5, minute, white, roundish, con- 

 cave, appressed to the style. Stamens 10 (-8 ? ), imper- 

 fectly developed, abortive, shorter than the calyx. Style 

 erect : stigma capitato-depressed. Berry size of a cori- 

 ander seed, azure, 5-celled. 



2. Cremanium axillare. Axillary-flowered 



Cremanium. 



Branchlets subtetragonal, when young ferrugi- 

 neo-farinose, when old glabrous, leaves elliptico- 

 lanceolate acuminate cbsoletely serrulated 3-ply- 

 nerved besides the marginal pair glabrous, thyrse 

 axillary racemose short, calyx 4-toothed, petals 

 4, stigma obtuse. 



H AB. St. Ann's, near the Moneague. 



FL. April. 



Leaves glabrous except a minute villous tuft in the 

 axils of the under surface of the nerves, about 4 inches in 

 length and 1 J broad : petiole farinoso-puberulous near 

 the leaf, nearly an inch in length. Panicles scarcely more 

 than an inch in length. Flowers small, white, crowded 

 at the ends of the subdivisions of the peduncle, very 

 shortly pedicelled, each furnished with a pair of minute 

 bracteoles. Calvcine teeth indistinct. Petals obtuse, 

 concave, reflected. Anthers oblong, tapering at the base, 

 bi-porose. Ovary sheathing around the base of the style : 

 style erect: stigma obtuse. 



3. Cremanium ? glandulosum. Glandulose 



Cremanium. 



Branches obtusely tetragonal albido-tomentose, 

 leaves ovate 3-nerved entire strigose above, hir- 

 suto-hispid and glandulose beneath, racemes ter- 

 minal, flowers crowded s ibsessile octandrous mi- 

 nute.— DC. 



