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thalamiflora:. 
I have not yet had an opportunity of examining this plant. 
According to the Hortus Jama'icensis, it is a tine timber- wood. 
2. Laetia Thamnia. Axillary -flowered Lcetia. 
Flowers apetalous, peduncles axillary usually 3- 
flowered subdivided, leaves ovato-oblong acuminate 
obscurely crenulated shining. 
Broione, Jam . 245. t. 25. f. 2. — Swartz , Prod. 83. — FI. Ind. 
Occ. 950. 
HAB. Common in limestone districts. Lower hills of St 
Andrew’s, St David’s, and Port- Royal. 
FL. May — July. 
A shrubby tree, about 8 feet in height : branches subflexuose, 
glabrous, towards their extremities compressed. Leaves alter- 
nate, petiolate, oblong, acuminate with the apex obtuse, very 
indistinctly crenulated, venose, glabrous, shining, “ when held to 
the light pertuse” (Sw.) : petiole short, terete, slightly chan- 
nelled. Peduncles axillary, solitary, an inch in length, 3-cho- 
tomously divided, bearing 3 pedicelled flowers. Flowers size 
of those of the common myrtle, white with a tinge of rose-colour. 
Sepals petaloid, roundish, concave, externally puberulous. Petals 
0. Filaments many, subulate, erect, pubescent : anthers round- 
ish, compressed, yellow. Disk villous. Ovary spherical, pen- 
tagonal, incano-villous : style short, thick: stigma obtuse. 
Capsule spherical, size of a lime, fleshy, cinereo-velutine, 1-cel- 
led, 5-valved, many-seeded: valves fleshy, “in time revolute” 
( Sw ). Seeds arillated, attached to six prominent parietal lon- 
gitudinal wedge-shaped purple fleshy placentae. 
A very common shrub. It is sometimes called Wattle-wood 
by the Negroes, from their employing the long branches in 
constructing their houses. 
ORDER XVI. VIOLARIEiE 
Sepals 5. Petals 5, hypogynous, equal or unequal, 
with an obliquely convolute aestivation. Stamens 5, 
alternate with the petals, occasionally opposite, in- 
serted on a - hypogynous disk : anthers 2-locular, 
bursting inwards, either separate or cohering : fila- 
ments dilated, elongated beyond the anthers. Ovary 
1 -celled: style 1, usually decimate, with an oblique 
