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CALYCIFLORjE. 
II A B. Mountain woods. Port-Royal Mountains. 
F L. August. 
A spreading tree of moderate height ; branchlets sub- 
terete, verrucose, villous towards the extremities. Leaves 
alternate, petiolate, subdistichal, about 3 inches in length, 
ovato-oblong, acuminate, entire, thin, smooth and some- 
what shining above, pubescent especially along the nerves 
beneath: petiole very short, villous. Racemes terminal, 
and in the axils of the subterminal leaves, compound, 
many-flowered, shorter than the leaves : flowers small, 
white, pedicelled, 3 — 4 together, furnished with minute 
subulate bractese at the insertion. Calyx 5- partite ; divi- 
sions ovate, obtuse, externally puberulous, persistent. 
Petals usually only 3 v the place of two others being vacant), 
white, ovate, obtuse, deciduous. Stamens 3, long, capil- 
lary, spirally twisted and purple towards the extremity, 
broader at the base, compressed, puberulous, connected so 
as to form an urceolatc nectary, with a vacant space for 
the two filaments which are deficient; anthers roundish, 
purple. Ovary compresso-declinate, villous ; style arising 
from the side of the ovary, length of the stamens, hairy 
towards the base; stigma obtuse, green. Drupe, dry, 
oblong, truncated at the apex, large, compressed, 3-ribbcd 
on each side, velutino-villous, green, 1-celled, 1-seeded. 
The above description agrees pretty closely with that 
of Swartz, except that the leaves are stated by him to 
be smooth and shining, and the petiole glabrous. He 
also describes the raceme as a half a foot in length, from 
considering, in my opinion incorrectly, the terminal and 
axillary racemes on each branch as constituting a sin- 
gle compound raceme. — The flowers are small and 
unattractive, and the wood is fragile. 
Tribe II. Amy g dale re . 
III. Cerasus. Cherry.. 
Drupe globose or umbilicated at the base, fleshy, 
very smooth, destitute of a cheesy pollen : nut 
sub-globose, smooth. — L) C. 
Leaves when young conduplicatcd. Flowers either on 
1-flowered pedicels, many together, u mbeliato-fascicula- 
ted, arising from a scaly bud, and more forward than the 
leaves ; or branched, terminal, and evolved after the 
