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CALYCl FLORAE. 
Amyris arboreus, foliis bijugatis ovatis glabris, racemis laxis 
terminalibus, Browne , 208. — A. balsam ifera, Swartz, Obs. 149. 
— A. toxifera, De Cand. II. 81 ? 
HAB. Common, Port-Royal mountains. 
FL. October. 
A shrub about 6, or a tree 15 feet in height: branches 
erect, of an ash colour, rough with small whitish asperities, 
glabrous. Leaves sub-opposite, impari-pinnate : leaflets 2- 
paired with an odd one, petiolulated, ovate, more or less 
rounded at the base, acuminate with the apex acute, subentire, 
very glabrous, of a bright green, somewhat shining and obscurely 
nerved above, pale and reticulato-venose beneath, pellucido- 
punctate : common petiole terete : petiolules short, terete. 
Panicle terminal, sessile (*'. e. no common stalk) : peduncles 
several, arising from the end of the branch, compressed, pu- 
berulous, subdivided : branchlets short, compressed, puberu- 
lous, with a small ovate bractea at the base of each. Flowers 
numerous, white, slightly fragrant, very shortly pedicelled, in 
threes, with a pair of minute bracteoles below each flower. 
Calyx minute, 4-fid; divisions ovate, ciliated, glanduloso-punc- 
tulate. Petals 4, cuneato-unguiculated, concave, patenti-reflex, 
glanduloso-punctate. Stamens 8, of nearly the same length as 
the petals, patent : anthers white. Ovary seated on an amber- 
coloured disk, ovoid, minutely puberulous : stigma subsessile, 
capitate. 
The branches of this shrubby tree, when broken or bruised, 
exhale a strong smell. Swartz mentions that he had not an 
opportunity of examining it. 
There are two additional species, A. Philipp^ea, and A. 
Robinsonii, noticed by Mr. Anthony Robinson, in Long’s His- 
tory of the Island. In both, the leaves are 3-foliate, and the 
petioles margined. 
IX. Exothea. 
Calyx 3-partite. Petals 5, shortly clawed, alter- 
nating with the divisions of the calyx. Stamens 7-8. 
Ovary supported on an annular fleshy disk. Drupe 
with the nut chartaceous, 1- rarely 2-seeded: radicle 
superior. 
Name, from to expel ; the plant about to be de- 
scribed, being allied to the Amyride^e, but separated from them 
by certain characters. 
1. Exothea oblongifolia. Oblong-lecived Exothea. 
HAB. Port-Royal mountains. Road to Friendship-house, St 
David’s. 
FL . February, March. 
