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CALYCIFLOUj’E. 
solitary, 1 -flowered. Fruit size of a small plum, orange-yellow, 
smooth. Nut from abortion 1-seeded: seed exalbumin ous ; 
funicle central, arising from the base, lying between the lobes 
of the cotyledons as in a sheath ; cotyledons leafy and plicato- 
corrugated ; embryo thick, white ; radicle incumbent. 
It is probable that this may be found to constitute a genus 
distinct from Rhus. I have not, however, been successful in 
observing the flower, and have met with only two individuals 
of the species. The fruit has a great resemblance in size and 
appearance to that of the Hog-plum , but the taste is intensely 
bitter. It is green at Christmas, and ripens towards the end of 
March, so that it is probable that August may be the period of 
flowering. 
This tree is stated to be also a native of Campeachy. 
VI. Spondias. Hog-Plum. 
Calyx 5-fid, coloured. Petals 5, oblong. Stamens 
10, arising from a glandulose crenated disk. Ovary 
1, ovate: styles 5, erect, distant. Drupe with a 
fibrous 5-locular nut. Ovules 2 in each locule. Seeds 
from abortion solitary, exalbuminous, with the em- 
bryo straight ; cotyledons somewhat fleshy ; radicle 
inferior. 
Trees ; with the leaves impari-pinnate, rarely simple ; ra- 
cemes axillary, simple or panicled. — Ssrovcba Mas the Greek 
name of a kind of plum. 
1. Spondias lutea. Yellow Spanish-Plum. 
Leaves impari-pinnate, leaflets 10-paired subalter- 
nate obovate subacuminate and serrated towards the 
apex, petiole 3-gonal, racemes short. 
Spondias foliis paucioribus pinnatis ovatis nitidis, JBroivne, 
229. — S. Myrobalanus, var. j3..Willd. Sp. II. 751. 
HAB. In the Port-Royal mountains. Not uncommon 
throughout the Island. 
FL. May. 
A tree, 15-20 feet in height: branches spreading, irregular, 
glabrous, punctato-pustulose at their extremities. Leaves 
situated on the shoots of the last year: leaflets 10-paired with 
an odd one, 1-1 ^ inch long, shortly petiolulated, somewhat 
-obovate, unequilateral at the base, slightly acuminate or acute 
with a few serratures at the apex, nerved and veined, subcoria- 
-ceous, glabrous with exception of a slight pubescence on the 
midrib near the base: petiole 7-8 inches long, keeled below, 
