SNAKE-WOOD. 
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terminating in 3 simple, obtuse stigmas. The fruit 
nearly half way embraced by the persistent base of the 
calyx, is a capsule of 3 lobes, with 3 valves, and 3 elas- 
tic cells. The seeds are solitary, nearly round and 
somewhat compressed, shining and black, remaining 
often after the lapse of the capsule attached to the base 
of the cells. With the wood of this tree or its economy, 
I am unacquainted. 
Another species of this genus, with smooth, elliptic 
and somewhat acuminated leaves on longish petioles, 
occurs, according to La Sagra, in Cuba. In this also, 
the small axillary umbels are very few-flowered, smooth 
and pedicellated; this might be called Colubrina glabra . 
Plate LYIII. 
A branch of the natural size. «. The umbel of flowers, b. The 
flower a little enlarged, c. The seed remaining attached to the 
receptacle. 
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