121 CALYCIFLOEjE. 



the leaf, leaves ovate bluntly acuminate glabrous 

 shining pellucido-punctulated, berry one-seeded. 



II A B. Thickets, Liguanea. 



FL. April. 



A shrub, 6-8 feet in height : branches erect, virgate, 

 terete, towards the extremity minutely puberulous. 

 Leaves about two inches in length: petiole puberulous 

 Racemes few-flowered : peduncle of the same length as 

 the petiole : pedicels about 3 lines in length, each furnish- 

 ed at the base with an ovate puberulous bractea : brae- 

 teoles 2, minute, acute, at the base of the calyx. Flowers 

 white with a crimson tinge. Sepals subequal, rounded. 

 Petals 4, rounded, minutely ciliated. Berry size of a 

 large pea, scarlet, one-seeded : seed subglobose. 



20. Eugenia Chrysophylloides. Star-apple- 

 leaved Eugenia. 



Panicles towards the end of the branches 

 axillary and terminal 2-3 together shorter than 

 the leaves, peduncle dichotomously branched, 

 divisions compressed ferrugineo-pubescent, with 

 a sessile flower frequently at the bifurcation but 

 with the others pedicelled, calycine lobes une- 

 qual, leaves elliptico-lanceolate obtuse pellucido- 

 punctulated, berry oblong. 



HAB. Salt-Hill, Port-Royal. 



FL. October. 



A shrubby tree, 10-15 feet in height: branches at the 

 end compressed and ferruginous. Leaves acuminate 

 with the apex blunt ; at the base acute and somewhat re- 

 volute, entire, shining, glabrous except being puberulous 

 along the under surface of the nerves, diagonally nerved, 

 3 4 inches long and 1^ broad : petiole teiete, channelled. 

 Panicles solitary or 2-3, axillary and terminal, seldom 

 more than 2 inches in length : peduncles angulose, ferru- 

 gineo-pubescent, irregularly branched. Flowers rather 

 large, white, shortly pedicelled, Bracteoles 2, minute, 

 ovate. Calyx externally ferrugineo-puberulous with the 

 lobes ciliated : the 2 outer ones rounded ; the 2 inner 

 ovate and smaller. Petals 4, rounded, ciliated, oleoso- 

 punctulatccl. JStylc declinatc, villous at the base. Berry 



