20 G 
CALY Cl FLO RuE. 
flowers small, white, pctlicelled. Calyx sometimes 5-, usually 
6-, rarely 7-fid. Corolla rotate 5-6-7 -partite. Filaments of 
the same number as the divisions of the calyx or corolla, minute, 
erect, alternating- with the divisions of the corolla : anthers 
roundish, bifid at the base, brownish-purple. Ovary green, 
globular, glabrous : style short, thick : stigma subcapitate, 
depressed, with the margin revolute, sub-6-fid. Berry globose, 
small, size of a pea, purple, 6-locular, 6-seeded. 
This is a somewhat handsome shrubby tree, from its dark 
shining evergreen leaves, and small white star-like flowers. 
2. Prinos lanceolatus. Lanceolate-leaved Prinos. 
Leaves ovato-lanceolate acuminate and subserrated 
towards the apex, wedge-shaped at the base shining 
above paler and minutely punctulated beneath, pe- 
duncle 3-chotomously branched with the divisions 
1 -3-flowered. 
HAB. Hardware Hill Gap, St Andrew’s. 
FL. May. 
A shrubby tree about 10 feet in height: branches numerous, 
fastigiate, angulose towards their extremities, glabrous. Leaves 
alternate, petiolate, ovato-lanceolate, subacute at the base, at- 
tenuato-acuminate and remotely serrated, with the teeth (to 
the glass) subulate, towards the apex ; glabrous, shining above, 
minutely punctulated beneath, delicately nerved : petiole short. 
Peduncle axillary, subsolitary, longer than the petiole, some- 
times 3-flowered, more usually 3-chotomously divided, with the 
middle division 1 -flowered, and the lateral branches very short 
(about a line in length) and 3-flowered. Flowers small, white, 
on a filiform pedicel, £ an inch or more in length. Calyx 6- 
toothed. Corolla 6-fid. The other parts of the flower, and 
also the fruit, as in the preceding species. 
YI. ScHTEFFERIA. 
Flowers by abortion dioecious. Calyx 4-partite (or 
rather 4-sepallcd), obtuse, persistent. Petals 4, al- 
ternating with the sepals. Stamens 4, alternating 
with the petals. Ovary 2-celled : style very short, 
or 0 : stigmata 2. Berry dry, bipartite, rarely one- 
celled from abortion ; cells one-seeded : seeds erect, 
with a fleshy somewhat oily albumen, and the embryo 
central straight plane . — De Cand. 
Shrubs, with the leaves alternate, and flowers several toge- 
