OEACINE®. 
12 L 
ORDER XXXII. OLACINEiE. 
Calyx monosepalous, subdentate, at first small, af- 
terwards enlarged or berried. Petals 4—6, hypogy- 
nous, subcoriaceous, with a valvular aestivation, either 
free, or binately united; disk hairy. Stamens 3-10, 
hypogynous or epipetalous : filaments compresso-sub- 
n late : anthers cordato-oblong, erect, 2-celled. Ovary 
free, 1-celled, S-ovuled : style 1, filiform. Fruit sub- 
drupaceous, indehiscent, frequently surrounded with 
the enlarged or berried calyx, by abortion 1-celled, 
1 -seeded : seed pendulous, umbilicated at the base : 
albumen fleshy, large; embryo small, included within 
the albumen, ovoid, basilary ; radicle directed to the 
umbilicus ; cotyledons continuous . — De Cand. abbr. 
Trees or shrubs, glabrous ; leaves simple, petiolate, alternate, 
exstipulated, entire, very rarely none ; flowers small, axillary. 
1. Ximcnia montana. Mountain-Plum. 
Peduncles racemose many-flowered unarmed, leaves 
oblong emarginate with an awn in the indentation. 
X. multiflora, Jacq. Amer. 106. t. 177. f. 81 X. Americana, 
De Cand. Prod. 1. 
HAB. Not uncommon ; Port-Royal Mountains. 
FL. August. 
A tree with the stem erect; the branches spreading, terete, 
angulose, verrucose, and glabrous at their extremities. Leaves 
alternate, or 2-3 together on short lateral tubercle-like branch- 
lets, petiolate, lanceolato-oblong, somewhat acute at the base, 
the apex in some rounded and mucronate, in others emarginate 
with an awn, entire, glabrous, nerved, obscurely veined, nearly 
3 inches long and scarcely one broad : petiole one-fourth of an 
inch long, terete, channelled above with the edges of the groove 
margined. Raceme axillary, subterminal, solitary, simple, about 
twice the length of the petiole : flowers yellow, green, shortly 
pedicelled ; common peduncle angulose. Calyx minute, 4 -fid. 
Petals 4, lineari-oblong, recurved at the apex, internally vil- 
lous. Stamens 8, hypogynous, length of the petals ; filaments 
delicately capillary : anthers linear. Ovary subulato-conical, 
glabrous, 8-angulose at the base ; style length of the stamens, 
erect ; stigma obtuse. Drupe size of the Plum of Europe, 
