120 CALYCIFLOR.fi. 



H A B. Port Royal Mountains, Bridge-hill and Bellvue 

 woods. « 



FL, May. 



A tree, about 15 feet in height: branches compressed, 

 minutely pube*fulous. Leaves about an inch and a half 

 in length, and nearly one in breadth, elliptic, subacuminate 

 with the apex blunt, attenuated at the base, subentire, gla- 

 brous, shining above: petiole about 2 lines in length, pu- 

 berulous. Peduncles axillary, about the length of the 

 leaf, compressed, dichotomous with a sessile flower at the 

 bifurcation: pedicels terete, previous to the opening of 

 the flower sericeo-pubeacent. Bracteoles appressed to 

 the calyx, oblong, foliaceous. Calycine lobes obtuse, cili- 

 ated, glanduloso-punctulated. Stamens numerous : fila- 

 ments delicately capillary. Style ere&t, declinate. Fruit 

 globular, size of a pea, 2-3-celled. 



This description differs from the characters given by 

 DeCandolle. 



14. Eugenia bracteata. Bracteated Eugenia. 



Peduncles axillary and subterminal longer than 

 twice the length of the leaf dichotomously 

 branched with a sessile flower at the bifurcation 

 and with the lateral flowers pedicelled, berry bilo- 

 cular with the locules 2-3-seeded, leaves elliptic 

 very shortly acuminate, subacute at the base, gla- 

 brous entire, petiole short puberulous. 



H A B. Port Royal mountains, 



FL. July. 



A low tree : branches terete, rough, ferruginous, to- 

 wards the end compressed and minutely puberulous. 

 Leaves decussating, dark green above, paler and pelluci- 

 do*punctate beneath ; with the nerves indistinct and par- 

 allel : petiole slightly channelled. Peduncle twice the 

 length of the leaf, with the branches divaricating com- 

 pressed and minutely puberulous. Flowers white, fra- 

 grant, with a pair of bractese at each division of the pe- 

 duncle, and a pair of bracteoles to each flower : bracteoles 

 oblongo-lanceolate, puberulous. Calycine divisions 4, 

 ovate, concave, blunt, puberulous. Petals 4, roundish, 

 concave. Stamens very numerous, about twice the length 

 of the petals. Style declinate, and curved. Berry 2- 



