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GLAUCOUS BITTER-WOOD. 
flowers appear to be wholly dioicous, as remarked by Dr. 
Wright, in the Jamaica plant. The panicles are pedun- 
culated and axillary ; the flowers are small, yellowish with 
a tinge of red, scattered and mixed with a few linear obtuse 
bracts. The petals are oblong-lanceolate. Stigmas 5, 
re volute, smooth, germs the same number. The drupes 
or capsules are seldom more than 3 by the abortion 
of the other germs, oval, somewhat compressed, and 
obtusely carinated, of a deep reddish purple, with little or 
no pulp, indehiscent, and 1 -seeded. From their appear- 
ance they are in Jamaica called Bitter or Mountain 
Damsons. 
Plate LXXXVII. 
A branch of the natural size. 
