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THALAMIFLOnjE. 
HAB. Common on Lime-stone hills. 
FL. June — August. 
A shrubby tree about 12 feet in height: branches spreading, 
terete, glabrous, albido-rimoso-papillose. Leaves alternate, or 2-4 
crowded together at the extremity of a short branchlet, petio- 
late, obovato-subrotund, wedge-shaped at the base, rounded 
(sometimes slightly emarginate) at the apex, entire, glabrous, 
thin, membranaceous, obscurely nerved, pale, (glaucescent) be- 
neath, little more than an inch in length: petiole short, twice 
the length of the pedicels, filiform. Stipules small, lanceolate, 
deciduous, half the length of the petiole. Flowers small, white, 
very shortly pedicelled, 4-10 (usually 6) together, axillary, 
furnished at the base with minute ovate acute brown scariose 
scales. Calyx pentangular at the base, 5-fid ; divisions ovate. 
Petals 5, alternating with the calycine lobes, and twjce their 
length, oblong, obtuse, keeled on the back, concave internally, 
and furnished about the middle with a convoluted petaloid 
appendage. Stamens 10, inserted on the inside of an urceolate 
minutely denticulated nectary or disk: filaments subulate: 
anthers oval. Ovary ovato-conical : styles 3, very short : stig- 
mata simple. 
This species is probably identical with E. obtusum of De 
Candolle, noticed by Kunth as a native of Cuba. 
2. Erythroxylum areolatum. Areolated-leaved Red- 
wood. 
Leaves elliptico-obovate areolated mucronate glau- 
cescent beneath, pedicels lateral several aggregated 
scarce twice the length of the dower. 
E. foliis ellipticis, Browne , Jam. 278. t. 38. f. 2 E. areola- 
tum, Swartz, Obs. 184. — E. Carthagenense, Jacq. Amer. 134. 
t. 187. f. 1. 
HAB. In dry situations. Near the sea-shore. 
FL. May — June. 
A shrubby tree, about 10 feet in height: branchlets short, 
ash-coloured, scabrous. Leaves alternate, or more commonly 
crowded at the ends of the branchlets, petiolate, elliptic, 
slightly obovate towards the base, rounded sometimes emargi- 
nate at the apex, entire, glabrous, glaucescent beneath, penni- 
veined, and in addition marked with two obscure nerves sub- 
parallel to the mid-nerve, enclosing an areolated spot, distinctly 
observable on holding the leaf up to the light ; an inch and a half 
in length, and half-an-inch in breadth : petiole short, terete. 
Stipules acute, sharply 2-ridged. Peduncles lateral, towards the 
ends of the branchlets, 1-5 together, 1 -flowered, length of the 
petiole. Flowers small, white, slightly fragrant. Calyx 
minute; teeth 5, acute. Petals 5, clawed, oblong, obtuse, al- 
