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FORKED CALYPTRANTHES. 
with hard wood, and in Jamaica is accounted an excel- 
lent timber, but the trunks seldom exceed 14 or 15 
inches in diameter. In Jamaica it is found in the dry- 
mountain lands; it is also indigenous to the islands of 
St. Thomas and Guadaloupe, and it has now also been 
found on Key West by Dr. Blodgett. 
The branches appear to be covered with a grey and 
smooth bark. The leaves, when in bud, as well as the 
young branches, flower-stalks and calyx are clad with a 
short, soft, ferruginous down, which from the leaves, as 
they advance in their developement, wholly disappears, 
they are of a lanceolate-ovate form, narrowed into a 
short petiole below; above acuminate but obtuse; beneath 
they are distinctly pennate-nerved, and too opaque to 
admit the light through the resinous glands with which 
they are nevertheless provided; they are about two 
inches long by an inch in width. The flowering panicles 
are trichotomous, usually terminal, and considerably 
ramified. The flowers are small and whitish, from the 
colour of the stamens. The calyx is ferruginous and 
toinentose, formed of a small obovate even cup, the 
whole border separating in a circular manner flies over 
to one side, in the form of a rounded petal, from whence 
issues the numerous filiform stamens with small whitish 
anthers. The germinal fruit appears small, dry, and 
tomentose, but I am unacquainted with it in a ripe 
state. 
Plate XXVI. 
A branch of the natural size. a. A flower magnified, showing 
the lateral adherence of the lid of the calyx. 
