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CALYCIFLORAS. 
Tribe I. Chrysobalanece. 
I. Chrysobalanus. 
Calyx bell-shaped, 5 -fid. Petals 5 , clawed. 
Stamens about 20, uniserial, subequal. Drupe 
plum-shaped ; putamen ovate, 6-sulcated, G-valved, 
1-seeded 5 kernel fleshy, thick — D C. 
Low trees ; flowers racemed or panicled. 
Name from x pv <r 0f Gold, and 6a\avo { an acorn ; in allusion 
to the size, colour, and form of the fruit. 
1. Chrysobalanus Icaco. Cocoa Plum . 
Leaves subrotundo-obovate subemarginate, ra- 
cemes axillary dichotomous, stamens hairy. 
Frutex fructu ovali ccerulco, Catesb. Car. 1. 25. t. 
25. -Icaco fructu ex albo rufescente ; et Icaco fructu 
purpureo, Plum Gcu, 44. — Chrysobalanus, Browne, Jam. 
250. t. 17. f. 5. — Jacq. Am. 154. t. 94. — Kunth, Syn. 
PL JEq. 111 . 483. — C. pellocarpus, Meyer. Pritnit. 
Essequeb. 193. 
II A B. Morass near Bybrook Estate, St. Thomas in the 
Vale. Cultivated. 
F L. March — May. After rains. 
A shrubby tree, about 12 feet in height : branches 
spreading, of a ferruginous colour, with white papillae. 
Leaves alternate, nerved, coriaceous, shining above, very 
glabrous : petiole short, incrassated. Racemes axillary, 
d'chotomously branched, solitary, shorter than the leaf: 
common peduncle plane on the inner surface, rounded on 
the outer, puberulous ; terminal divisions 3-flowered. 
Flowers shortly pedicelled, wlrte, crowded. Bractcoles 
ovato-lanceolate, deciduous, a pair below each flower. 
Calyx 5-partite ; divisions ovate, acute, puberulous, cili- 
ated, sub-persistent. Petals 5, white, obovato-oblong, 
o tusc, scarcely longer than the calyx, deciduous. Sta- 
mens numerous; filaments compressed, hairy, length of 
the petals, persistent. Ovary subrotund, villous ; style 
arising from one side of the base of ihe ovary, length of 
the stamens, villous; stigma obtuse. Fruit ovah-subrotund, 
size of a large plum, of a white, yellow, red, or purple 
colour, glabrous with exception of a few minute scatter- 
