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THALA.MIFLOR2E. 
umbilicato, Sloatie, II. 80. t. 194 — Muntingia fruticosa villosa, 
foliis serratis oblongis uno latere brevioribus, Browne , 245. — 
M. calabura, Gcerln. I. t. 59. Jacq. Am. t. 107. Swartz, Obs. 
211 . 
HAB. Common on the low dry bills. 
FL. Throughout the year. 
A tree about 15 feet in height : branches horizontally spread- 
ing, villoso-tomentose with viscoso-capitate hairs at their extre- 
mities. Leaves alternate, shortly petiolated, oblongo-lanceolate, 
acuminate, unequal and sub-cordate at the base, nerved, deep 
green and pubescent above, rufescenti-tomentose with viscid 
hairs beneath. Stipules twice the length of the petiole, seta- 
ceous. Peduncles supra-axillary, 2-3 together, 1-2 inches 
long, terete, viscoso-villous, one-flowered. Flowers white. 
Bracteas 3-4, at the base of the peduncles, setaceo-subulate. 
Calyx 5-7 partite nearly to the base ; divisions lanceolate, at- 
tenuated at the apex, externally villoso-pubescent, internally 
concave, deciduous. Petals of the same number as the calycine 
lobes, spreading, slightly clawed at the base, roundish, undulated 
at the margin. Filaments numerous, erect : anthers yellow, 
didymous. Ovary globose, lobulated, encircled at the base 
with a hairy ring : stigma sessile. Berry, size of a gooseberry, 
green. 
IV. Banciioftia. 
Calycine sepals 8, persistent. Petals 8. Stamens 
8, liypogynous. Style short : stigma radiato-6-fid. 
Berry 6-celled, cc-seeded : seeds minute, nidulant in 
the pulp. 
Named, in honour of Dr Edward Nathaniel Bancroft of Ja- 
maica, a zealous cultivator of Botany, as well as the other bran- 
ches of Natural History, and author of several esteemed works 
on medical subjects. 
1. Bancroftia diffusa. Spreading Bancroftia. 
HAB. Morce’s Gap, and road to New-Haven, St George’s. 
FL. October. 
Stem herbaceous, suffruticose at the base, several feet in 
length, supporting itself on neighbouring shrubs: branches 
long, terete, glabrous. Leaves alternate, petiolate, ternate, 
with the middle leaf the longest; leaflets lanceolate, acuminate, 
subentire, nerved, glabrous: common petiole about 2 inches in 
length, terete, glabrous : petiolules of the leaflets short. Ra- 
cemes terminal, simple, 6-8 inches in length : flowers shortly 
pedicelled, greenish-white : common peduncles angulose : pedi- 
cels half an inch in length, furnished at the base with a linear 
bractea of the same length. Sepals 8, narrow, lanceolate, per- 
