ANONACE.'E. 
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1. Tetracera Jamaicensis. Jamaica Tetracera. 
Leaves ovali-oblong somewhat acute prolonged at 
the base subglabrous subserrulated, peduncles race- 
mose glabrous somewhat rough. 
De Cand. Syst. I. 400. — Prod. I. 68. 
HAB. St Thomas in the Vale, common. 
FL. December. 
A shrub, subscandent, supporting itself on neighbouring 
plants : branches terete, towards their extremities hispid, co- 
loured. Leaves with a few serratures towards the apex, penni- 
nerved with the nerves on the under surface hispidulous, 5 
inches long, and 2| broad : petiole keeled. Panicle terminal 
and axillary, erect, racemose. Flowers yellow, showy, pedi- 
celled. Calycine sepals 5 ; the 2 inner the largest, roundish, 
concave, externally puberulous ; internally sericeous: the 3 
outer small, membranaceous. Petals 5, obovato-oblong, 
rounded, deciduous. Stamens o>, yellow : filaments dilated at 
the apex, bearing the anthers at the sides. Ovary bilocular: 
style curved, club-shaped : stigmata 2, capitate. Capsules 
2-4, large, glabrous, awned with the persistent style. 
This is a showy plant, and appears to have been first collected 
by Mr Wiles, and first described by Prof. De Candolle, who 
met with a specimen in the herbarium of A. 13. Lambert, Esq. 
For an illustration of the fruit, the reader is referred to Gajrtner, 
I. 336, t. 69. 
ORDER IV. ANONACEyE. 
Calycine sepals 3-4, short, persistent, very sel- 
dom free, more commonly united into a 3-4-fid, or 
3-4-partite calyx. Petals (i, hypogynous, in two 
rows, coriaceous, with a valvular aestivation. Stamens 
numerous, placed closely together and covering a large 
hypogynous usually hemispherical disk : filaments very 
short : anthers adnate, turned outwards, with an en- 
larged 4-cornered connectivum, which is sometimes 
nectariferous. Ovaries usually numerous : styles 
short : stigmata simple. Fruit composed of a num- 
ber of carpels, which are either succulent or dry, ses- 
