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CALYCl FLORAE. 
globose, 3-gonal, 3-valved, 1 - celled ; valves thick, coriaceous. 
Seeds numerous, angulose, in an orange- coloured filamentose 
pulp. 
2. Samyda villosa. Villous Scmiyda. 
Flowers 10-antherous, peduncles axillary solitary 
1 -flowered, leaves oblong acute subserrated oblique at 
the base silky villous beneath. 
Swartz. Fl. hid. Occ. 758. 
HAB. Mountains. 
FL. Spring. 
An erect shrub : branches terete, pubescent ; branchlets vil- 
lous. Leaves silky above, ferrugineo-hirsute along the nerves 
beneath. Flowers rather large, white. Calyx 5-fid to the 
middle, externally pubescent. Ovary pubescent : style thick: 
stigma capitate. Capsule large, ovate, fleshy, greenish, pubes- 
cent, 1 -celled, 3-4-valved. Seeds many, ovate, shining : arillus 
scarlet or pale red. — Swartz. 
II. Caseaiua. 
Stamens 12-30, monadelphous at the base, alter- 
nately antheriferous, alternately sterile, subulate or 
spathulate, in general villous or ciliated . — De Cand. 
Named, by Jacquin in honour of John Casearius, a clergy- 
man of the Dutch Church in Cochin-China, and a contributor to 
the Hortus Malabaricus. 
1. Casearia nitida, Shining Casearia. 
Flowers 8-antherous 5-partite, peduncles axillary 
cymose, leaves ovate subcordate subentire glabrous. 
Samyda foliis nitidis, Igevissime crenatis, rudimentis mollibus 
rubentibus, racemis tenuioribus alaribus, Browne, 217. t. 23. f. 
3 S. nitida, Linn. Sp. Plant. 557 ? 
HAB. Liguanea. 
FL. March. 
A shrub, about 6 feet in height : branches terete, glabrous. 
Leaves alternate, petiolate, ovate, subcordate, obtuse, obsoletely 
crenulated, nerved and veined, very glabrous, shining, mem- 
branaceous, pellucido-punctulated. Cyme axillary, shorter than 
the leaf: pedicels filiform. Flowers of the same size, and bear- 
ing some resemblance to those of the Hawthorn. Sepals 5, 
obtuse. Filaments 16, each alternate one cluh-shaped, red and 
puberulous towards the apex, more than half the length of the 
anther-bearing filaments. Ovary conical : style erect: stigma 
obtuse. 
