KIIAMNEJE. 
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ther, axillary, pedicelled, small. — Named, in lionour of James 
Clir. Schaeffer, of Ratisbon, author of several Botanical works. 
This genus, I consider, as belonging to the present order, and 
not to the Riiamnete, from the aestivation being imbricated, 
from the stamens being alternate with the petals and opposite 
to the sepals, and from the ovary being free. 
1. Schaefferia completa. Perfect-flowered Scluefferia. 
Leaves elliptic acuminate at both ends subentire as 
well as the branchlets glabrous, petals oblong obtuse, 
ovary glabrous. 
Buxi folio majore acuminato, arbor baccifera, fructu minore 
croceo dipyreno, Sloane, 102. t. 209. f. 1. — Scluefferia completa. 
Swartz, Fl. Ind. Occ. I. 327. t. 7. — S. frutescens, Jacq. Amer. 
259 — De Cand. Prod. II. 41. 
HAI3. Thickets. 
FL. May, June ; more rarely January. 
A shrubby tree, about 10 feet in height: branches erect, 
terete, striatulated at their extremities, glabrous. Leaves al- 
ternate, petiolated, elliptic or broad-lanceolate, attenuated at 
the base, subacuminate with a small bluntish apicula, subentire 
(or obsoletely crenated), glabrous, shining above, greasy to the 
touch, nerved and veined : petiole terete, short. $ Fl. Pedicels 
axillary, 3-5 together, very short, not longer than 2 lines, 1- 
flowered. Calyx minute, 4-sepaIled : sepals roundish, concave, 
imbricating. Petals 4, alternating with and much longer than 
the sepals, oblong, obtuse, concave. Stamens 4, erect, length 
of the petals, opposite to the sepals : anthers 2-celled, yellow. 
Ovary conical, yellow, abortive. $ Fl. Pedicels axillary, about 
4 together, somewhat longer than the petiole : sepals as in the 
barren flower but persistent. Petals deciduous. Ovary sub- 
rotund, green, glabrous : style 0 : stigmata 2-lobed ; lobes ex- 
panded, slightly bifid. Berry subrotund, or oval, 2-celled, size 
of a small pea, when ripe scarlet: seeds one in each cell, hemi- 
spherical. 
SchjEfferia lateriflora of Swartz is the Drypetis cro- 
cea of Modern Systems, and has been placed among the Eu- 
phorbiaceas. 
ORDER LVI. RHAjNINE^E. 
Calyx with its tube adhering to the ovary, 4-5- 
cleft, with a valvate aestivation. Petals corresponding 
