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THALAMl FLOH/E. 
Swartz, Prod. 81. — Obs. 207. 
HAB. Port- Royal mountains ; below Trafalgar house. 
FL. September. 
A tree about 20 feet in height : branches irregular, spread- 
ing, subterete, glabrous, slightly verrucose. Leaves situated 
towards the ends of the branchlets, alternate, petiolate, ohovate, 
attenuated at the base, rounded and sometimes snbemarginate 
at the apex, entire with the margin concave, coriaceous, nerve- 
less, almost veinless, very glabrous, shining above, 2-3 inches 
long: petiole plane above. Peduncles axillary, solitary, 1- 
fiowered, terete, about an inch in length, drooping. Flowers 
rather showy, white, fragrant. Calycine sepals 7, persistent ; 
the two outer ones small, ovate ; the other five roundish, thick, 
almost cartilaginous, green, concave, shining. Petals 5, united 
at the base to form a submonopetalous corolla, spreading, 
longer than the calyx, snbemarginate, deciduous. Stamens nu- 
merous, submonadel phous, accrete to the base of the petals, 
with which they are inserted on the torus, encircling the base 
of the ovary : filaments ^ of an inch in length, subulate, free 
at the apex, and bearing on each side, about the middle, a linear 
pollenary locule or anther. Ovary conical, 2-celled : ovules 
coehleate, attached to the septum : style erect, longer than the 
stamens, thick, subulate: stigmata 2. Berry (?) juiceless, 
conical, enclosed within the persistent calyx, falling, when ripe, 
without separating into valves: seeds silky. 
2. Ternstrccmia crenata. Crenated Ternstrcemia . 
Leaves ovato-lanceolate acuminate with the apex 
blunt serrato-crcnated nerved, peduncles axillary 
scarcely longer than the flowers ,5-bracteolated. 
. HAB. Road to Cold-Spring. 
FL. March. 
A tree, about 20 feet in height : branches spreading, angu- 
lose at their extremities, glabrous. Leaves at the ends of the 
branches, petiolate, ovato-lanceolate, acuminate with the apex 
blunt, crenulato-serrate, very glabrous and shining above, glab- 
rous or faintly puberulous along the midrib beneath, nerved, 
and minutely reticulato-venose : petiole subterete, plane above. 
Peduncles axillary, solitary, usually shorter than the petiole, 
terete, 1-2-flowered : flowers white, fragrant. Braeteoles 5, 
small, scale-like, rounded, imbricated, appressed to the base of 
the calyx, ciliated, and pectinulated with a row of minute glan- 
dules mixed with the hairs. Calycine sepals 5, twice the 
size of the braeteoles, roundish, ciliated and pectinulated wi.h 
minute glandules, imbricated. Petals 7-9, (two or more of 
them as if supplementary, being situated more interiorly and 
somewhat smaller), oblong, rounded at the apex, cohering to- 
gether and with the base of the stamens. Stamens <x, in 3 
