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ginate at the apex coriaceous obscurely nerved very 
entire, stipules very minute deltoid acute, peduncles 
very short axillary 3-6-flowered. 
I. obcordata, Swartz , FL hul. Occ. 338. 
HAB. Blue-mountain ridge. Orchard negro-grounds ; Port- 
Royal. 
FL. October — January. 
A tree about 16 feet in height (according to Swartz a 
shrub) : branches spreading, towards their extremities com- 
pressed, sulcated, green, glabrous. Leaves petiolate, nearly 2 
inches long, and 1 broad, obovato-elliptic, rounded and most 
generally emarginate with a minute bluntish apieula in the 
indentation at the apex, acuminate at the base, very entire, 
coriaceous, obscurely nerved, veinless : petiole terete, slightly 
channelled. Stipules minute, deltoid, acute. Peduncles axil- 
lary, solitary, very short, 3-6-flowered : flowers small, white, 
pedicelled : pedicels one third of an inch in length, compressed, 
angular, bearing a pair of minute bracteas a little above the in- 
sertion. Calyx minute, 4-fid; divisions short, acute, persistent. 
Corolla rotate, 4-partite ; divisions alternate with the sepals, 
oval, rounded at the apex, imbricated during aestivation. Sta- 
mens 4, opposite to the sepals, shorter than and adhering to 
the base of the corolla. Ovary globose, 4-lobed : stigma sub- 
sessile, 4-lobed, purple. Berry 4- or (by abortion) I -pyrene. 
IV. Prinos. J Vinter -berry. 
Calyx 6-fid. Corolla rotate. Stamens 4-6. Berry 
6-seeded. 
Name, from Prinos, the Greek designation for the evergreen 
oak. 
1 . Prinos montanus. 
Leaves rotundo-ovate subacuminate at the base 
acuminate and subserrated towards the apex, shining 
above paler beneath, peduncles axillary 3-chotomously 
divided, branches 1 -3-flowered. 
Swartz, FI. hid. Occ. 622 ? 
HAB. Higher mountains, common. 
FL. July, August. 
A shrubby tree, about 15 feet in height: branches erect, 
terete, scabrous, coloured: branchlets compressed, angulose, sul- 
cated. Leaves alternate, petiolate, ovate, attenuated towards 
the base, acuminate, distantly serrated with the teeth distinct 
towards the apex, glabrous, shining above, paler and minutely 
punctulated beneath. Peduncle axillary’, usually 3-partite ; 
divisions 1-flowered, or about a line in length and 3-flowered : 
