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CHIOCOCCA RACEMOSA. 
Snow-berry Bush. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.— :Nat. Ord. RUBIACEA. 
Div. VII, Fructus monocarpus biloculans dispermus. Stam. 5. Fol. opposita; caulis 
frutescens aut arboreus Juss. 
Gen. Char. — Cor. infundibuliformis, aequalis. Bacca bilocularls, 2-sperma, 
infera. 
Chiococca racemosa; foliis ovatis acuminatis, racemis subdivisis axil- 
laribus secundis subnutantibus. 
Chiococca racemosa. Linn. Sp. PI. v. i. p. 246. — Willd. Sp. PI. v. i. p. 975. 
— Andr. Rep. t. 284. — Ait. Hort. Ketv. ed. 2. v. i. p. 374. — Pursh, Fl. 
N. Am. V. i. p. l60. 
Pericljnnenum racemosum, flore flavescente, fructu niveo, Dill. Horl. Elth. 
V. ii. p. 306. t. 228. f. 295. 
A moderate sized shrub in its native climate, according to Browne, in his 
Natural History of Jamaica, sometimes reaching to the height of 7 or 8 
feet, much branched, with the branches opposite, and so long and slender 
that they frequently require to be supported by the neighbouring plants ; 
rounded, smooth. Leaves constantly opposite, one or two inches in 
length, ovate, gradually acuminated (except in some of the older leaves, 
which are simply acute) at the extremity, and, at the base attenuated in- 
to a rather short footstalk, smooth, shining, subcoriaceous, waved, entire 
at the margin, with a central rib, often dark above, and a few very ob- 
scure lateral nerves or veins. 
The jhrvers are produced in rather small but graceful, somewhat drooping, 
scarcely compound racemes, from the axils of the leaves of the upper 
branches'; very fragrant, and all of them secund. Calyx of five teeth, of 
a brownish colour, erect, entire. Corolla infundibuliform, pale yellow, 
the tube somewhat angular, the limb of 5 spreading and sometimes re- 
flexed ovate segments ; Stamens springing from the very base of the co- 
rolla, 5 in number, united by their bases, shorter than the corolla. Fila- 
ments white, glabrous. Anthers linear, pale yellow. Germen inferior, 
roundish, ovate, green, compressed, obscurely 2-lobed, 2-celled, 2-sided : 
Style longer than the tube of the calyx, white, filiform : Stigma clavate, 
bifid. Fruit a roundish, slightly compressed, pulpy, snow-white, 2-celied 
Berry, crowned with the teeth of the calyx. Seeds two, solitary, com- 
pressed (Browne), " pendent, and each attached by a short stalk to the 
upper extremity of the cells," (G/ERTn.) 
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