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The young leaves come out with the flowers, and are at first 
of a very soft texture and reddish colour. This is certainly the 
plant described by Browne. 
2. Casearia liirta. Hairy Casearia. 
Flowers 8-antherous 5-partite, pedicels crowded 
1 -flowered, leaves ovate serrated pubescent above 
hairy beneath along the nerves. 
Swartz , FI. lnd. Occ. 756. — Prod. 68. 
HAB. Common in mountain pastures. 
FL. May. 
A shrubby tree : branches spreading, terete, angulose, pubes- 
cent. Leaves about 4 inches iong and 2 broad, apiculated; the 
serratures distant and rather irregular: petiole short. Pedun- 
cles 1 -flowered, in clusters, axillary and lateral, short, round, fili- 
form, pubescent. Perianth 5-partite, greenish-white, externally 
puberulous, larger in proportion than in the rest of the species; 
divisions oblong. The barren-filaments short, villoso-plumose, 
persistent : the anther-bearing filaments subulate, erect, smooth : 
anthers ovate. Ovary ovate. Style 3-quetrous, length of the 
stamens : stigma capitate, slightly 3-fid. Capsule oblong, shortly 
acuminate, 3-valved. 
In the specimens which I have examined, the perianth was 
uniformly 5-partite and not 4-partite, as stated by Swartz. 
3. Casearia odorata. Sweet-smelling Casearia. 
Flowers 8-antherous 5-partite, pedicels 1 -flowered 
axillary 10-15 together, leaves ovate acuminate with 
the apex obtuse crenato-serrated subglabrous pelluci- 
do-punctulated. 
HAB. Common in Savannahs. St Thomas in the Vale. 
Port-Royal mountains. 
FL. August, September. 
A shrub, 6-10 feet in height : branchlets horizontally spread- 
ing, subterete. Leaves subdistichal, alternate, petiolate, ovate, 
acuminate with the apex obtuse or subemarginate, subglabrous, 
(minutely puberulous along the nerves), crenulato-serrulated 
(the teeth with a minute deciduous apicula), nerved, pellucido- 
punctulated, about 2 inches long and 1 broad : petiole short. 
Pedicels 10-15, crowded together, axillary, about £ of an inch 
in length (twice that of the petiole), articulated at the middle, 
furnished at the base with minute marescent sheathing scales. 
Flowers greenish-white, fragrant. Sepals 5, oblong, obtuse. 
Stamens 16, monadelphous at the base ; the 8 fertile ones erect, 
subulate ; the barren ones truncated, villous. Ovary villous : 
