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THALAMI FLORAE. 
HAB. Common every where, especially in the lower moun- 
tains. 
FL. Summer. 
A tree, 15 or 20 feet in height; stem, especially when 
young, erect, straight, either simple, or with a few branches at 
its extremity : branches straight, terete, glabrous. Leaves situ- 
ated at the ends of the branchlets, usually a foot and a-half in 
length ; leaflets subopposite, petiolulated, ovato-lanceolate, at- 
tenuato-acuminate, the old ones glabrous, the young glabrous 
above but puberulous beneath in the axils of the nerves and 
along the margin, 3 inches in length and rather more than 1 
long. Racemes axillary-terminal, peduncle elongated, com- 
pressed, puberulous ; branchlets short, partially subdivided ; 
pedicels very short, jointed above the middle, furnished at that 
point with a pair of minute ovate acute braeteoles ; flowers 
greenish yellow. Calyx minute, 5-partite, spreading. Petals 
5, oblong, bluntish: filaments 10, broad, ciliated, and internally 
villous, externally glabrous : anthers small, ovate, yellow, erect. 
Ovary conical, amber-coloured at the base, hairy: style thick: 
stigma capitate, depressed. Capsule size of a small cherry, 
roundish, pubescent; seeds solitary, oblong, covered with a 
scarlet arillus. 
This is a very common tree, possessed neither of beauty nor 
of any useful quality. In the French Islands it receives the 
name of Mombin batard, from its foliage resembling that of the 
Hog-Plum. 
3. Trichilia moschata. Common shrubby Muskwood. 
Leaves pinnated, leaflets alternate oblongo-lanceo- 
late acuminate puberulous beneath, flowers decan- 
drous. 
HAB. Port-Royal mountains. 
FL. February. 
A shrubby tree : branches erect, terete, slightly papillose. 
Leaflets 9, alternate, petiolulated, oblongo-lanceolate, acumin- 
ate, entire, puberulous along the nerves beneath especially when 
young, about 5 inches long, and nearly 2 broad: common peti- 
ole slightly compressed. Cyme axillary : common peduncle 
minutely puberulous : pedicels short. Flowers yellowish-white. 
Calyx externally puberulous, 5-fid. Petals 5, slightly cohering 
at the base, externally (under the glass) puberulous. Stamens 
10: filaments united: anthers ovato-lanceolate. Ovary glo- 
bose, sericeo-pubescent : style short : stigma subcapitate, green- 
ish. 
