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cles axillary subterminal scarcely the length of the 
petiole racemoso-umbellated, fruit pellucid spherical, 
seeds trigonal. 
Rhamnus sphserospermus, Swartz , FI. Ltd. Occ. 499. — 
Roemer et Schultes , V. 289. — Ceanothus sphaerocarpus, De 
Cand. Prod. II. 30. 
HAB. Port-Royal mountains. 
FL. May. 
A tree, about 15 feet in height; branches erect, with the 
bark ash-coloured and wrinkled, bearing the leaves crowded at 
their extremities. Leaves petiolated, oblong, acuminate, ser- 
rated, glabrous, except along the nerves, where there is a slight 
pubescence, penni-nerved, veined. Flowers small, obscure, 
greenish, sub-terminal, axillary, sub-umbellated : common pe- 
duncle short, compressed. Pedicels very short, with minute 
acuminate scariose bracteas at the base. Calyx externally mi- 
nutely puberulous, 5-fid ; divisions acute, ovate, fleshy, decidu- 
ous. Petals yellowish-white, small, ^ the length of the calycine 
lobes, sinuato-emarginate (with the stamens lying between the 
lobes). Stamens 5 alternating with the divisions of the calyx 
and of nearly the same length, inserted into the line marking 
where the persistent portion of the calyx unites with the de- 
ciduous sepals. Ovary superior, conical : style 3-fid : stigmata 
obtuse. Berry spherical, 3-sulcate at the apex, size of a small 
black pepper, sitting on the persistent portion of the calyx, 
pellucid, pale green, 1- or 3-seeded. Seeds oblong, 3-gonal. 
3. Ceanothus reclinatus. Pendulous-branched Ja- 
maica Buckthorn. 
Leaves elliptic acuminate entire subglabrous, bran- 
ches flexile pendulous, flowers axillary aggregato- 
corymbose, pedicels and the calyx externally puberu- 
lous. 
Rhamnus arborescens major, Browne, 172. t. 29. f. 2. — 
Rhamnus ellipticus, Ait. Hort. Kew. I. 265. — Roemer et Schultes, 
V. 288. — Ceanothus reclinatus, De Cand. Prod. II. 31. 
HAB. Port- Royal mountains. Near Half-way Tree. 
FL- July — November. 
A tree of moderate height : branches spreading, flexile, pen- 
dulous, of a blackish colour, albido-papillose, angulose towards 
their extremities. Leaves alternate, petiolate, elliptic, subacute 
at the base, acuminate with the apex obtuse, entire, subglabrous 
(a minute pubescence beneath, only to be detected by the mi- 
croscope), nerved, veined, membranaceous : petiole terete, chan- 
nelled above. Peduncles axillary, solitary, not half the length 
of the petiole, bearing several small yellow shortly pedicelled 
