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CALYCIFLOHiE. 
style erect, length of the stamens : stigma capitate. Capsule 
size of a coffee berry, 3-valved. 
The flowers of this species are many times larger than those 
of C. parviflora, and are very fragrant, perfuming the air to 
a considerable distance. It approaches very near to C. kami- 
l'LORA. 
4. Casearia parviflora. Small-flowered Casearia. 
Flowers 1 0-antherous 5 -partite very small, pedicels 
crowded axillary 1 -flowered, leaves oblong acuminate 
crenulated or subentire glabrous pellucido-punctu- 
lated. 
Arbor baccifera, fructu minimo croceo, Sloane, II. t. 211. f. 
2. — Samyda, Browne , 217 S. parviflora, Linn. Spec. 557. 
Swartz, Obs. 178. — Casearia parviflora, Willd. II. 627. — De 
Cand. Prod. II. 49. — C. sylvestris, Swartz, FI. Ind. Occ. 
752? 
HAB. Common in mountain thickets. 
FL. April — August. 
A shrub, 6-10 feet in height: branchlets alternate, nearly 
horizontally spreading, slightly compressed, virgultose, sub- 
flexuose, minutely puberulous. Leaves alternate, petiolate, 
distichal, oblong, acuminate with the apex obtuse, serrato-ere- 
nulated, glabrous, thin, pellucido-punctulated, nerved atid 
veined: petiole very short. Flowers shortly pedicelled, 20-30, 
crowded together, axillary, small, of a pale yellow. Pedicels 
about 3 lines in length, 1-flowered, furnished at their insertion 
with minute ovate sheathing ciliated marescent scales. Sepals 
5, roundish-ovate, concave, minutely ciliated. Fertile stamens 
10, shorter than the calyx, alternating with the barren filaments, 
which are shorter, truncated, villose. Ovary conical, .sub-3- 
gonal, green, minutely appresso-puberulous : style very short : 
stigmata 3, capitate. Capsule small, size of a black pepper, 
3-valved, about 6-seeded. 
I consider Casearia sylvestris of Swartz to be merely a 
variety of this species, produced by growing in a shady situa- 
tion. 
5. Casearia serrata. Serrated Casearia. 
Flowers 1 0-antherous 5-partite small, pedicels 
crowded axillary 1-flowered on a very short common 
peduncle, leaves oblongo-lanceolate finely serrated 
subglabrous pellucido-punctulated. 
HAB. Road from Rose-hill to Peter’s Rock, St Andrews. 
FL. November, December. 
