CALYPTRANTHES,! 
(Swartz.) 
Natural Order , Myrtace^e. Linnsean Classification, 
IcOSANDRIA, MoNOGYNIA. 
Tube of the calyx obovate, with the border entire, when flower- 
ing bursting circularly in the form of a lateral, and at length, 
deciduous lid. Petals none, or 2 or 3 and minute. Stamens 
many. Style 1; stigma simple. Ovary 2 to 3-celled, the 
cells 2-seeded. The berry by abortion 1 -celled, 1 to 4-seeded. 
Small trees of the West India Islands and of Brazil, the leaves 
with pinnated veins. Flowers small and numerous, usually in 
axillary or terminal panicles. 
FORKED CALYPTRANTHES. 
CALYPTRANTHES chytraculia, arborea , foliis ovatis 
apice attenuatis rigidiu§culis demum glabris , pedunculis 
axillari-terminalibus trichotomis paniculatis floribusque 
rufo-velu tints . — Decand. Prod. vol. 3. p. 257. 
C. Chytraculia, arborea , pedunculis terminalibus trichoto- 
mis tomentosis, foliis ovatis apice attenuatis . Swartz, 
Prod. p. 79. Flor. Ind. Occid., vol. 2. p. 921. 
Myrtus chytraculia, pedunculis dichotomis paniculatis to- 
mentosis , foliis geminis subovatis terminalibus. Linn. 
Amoen. Academ., vol. 5. p. 398. Swartz, Observ. p. 202. 
Chytraculia arborea , foliis ovatis glabris oppositis , racemis 
terminalibus . Brown, Jamaic. p. 239. t. 37. fig. 2. 
Eugenia pallens ? Poiret. Suppl., vol. 3. p. 122. 
This plant forms an elegant and curious small tree, 
t The name from a veil , and avQc?, a flower , in allusion 
to the operculid form of the calyx. 
