SAM YDEJE. 
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cc -seeded ; valves incompletely opening, often some- 
what pulpy inside and coloured. Seeds fixed to the 
valves without order, with a fleshy arillus and exca- 
vated hiluin : albumen fleshy : embryo inverted, mi- 
nute : cotyledons ovate, fbliaceous : radicle pointing 
in an opposite direction to the hilum. 
The plants belonging to this Order are lowly trees or shrubs, 
chiefly natives of the West Indies and South America. Mi- 
Brown has remarked that they are remarkable for their leaves 
having a mixture of round and linear pellucid dots, distinguish- 
ing them from all other families with which they are likely to 
be confounded. None of the species are possessed of an v known 
properties. According to De Candolle, the bark and leaves 
are, in a slight degree, astringent. 
I. Sam yd a. 
Stamens, all of them antheriferous. Stigma globose. 
—Da Cand. 
Named, from tfa/x/oa the birch , which this genus resembles in 
the foliage. 
1. Samyda glabrata. Glabrous Samyda. 
Flowers 10-antherous, peduncles axillary 1 -flowered, 
leaves ovato-lanceolate or oblong acuminate entire 
shining above. 
Swartz, FI. Ind. Occ. 760. 
HAB. Not uncommon in Port-Royal mountains. 
FL. Warmer months of the year. 
A shrub, rarely more than 5 feet in height: branches alter- 
nate, patulous, ash-coloured, subterete, roughish. Leaves dis- 
tichal, alternate, petiolate, oblong, somewhat lanceolate towards 
the apex, where they are slightly acuminate and subacute, en- 
tire, somewhat shining above, glabrous, except a few minute 
hairs beneath, pellucido-punctate, veined : petiole short. Pe- 
duncles axillary, solitary, scarcely more than a line in length, 
1 -flowered, furnished at the base with a pair of small ovate 
acuminate scariose bracteas. Flowers white. Calycine tube 
campanulate ; limb 5-partite, more than half the length of the 
calyx; divisions (one of them occasionally smaller than the 
rest) obtuse, externally green, internally white. Stamens 10: 
filaments united at the base and inserted in the throat of the 
calyx, short, thick, white, glabrous; anthers cordate. Ovary 
ovate, appresso-pubescent : style longer than the stamens : 
stigma capitate. Capsule size of the plum of Europe, sub- 
