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CALYC1FL0R2E. 
stamens 12-20, leaves very entire shining ovato- 
lanceolate, lruit snbglobose. 
A mygdalus fuliis parvis, Nicolson’s Doming. 154 — M yr- 
tifolia arb >r, foliis latis subrotundis, florealbo, Sloane, Hist. 
II. 70 t. 103. f. 1. — Prunus sphserocarpa, Swartz, FI. 
Ind. Occ. 027. — Cerasus sphserocai pa, Loisel. in Dw 
ham. ed. nov. V. 4, — Dot. Mag. 3141. 
II A B. Common, in the lower mountains. 
FL. February. 
A tree, 15-20 feet in height. Leaves alternate, petio- 
late, ovato-lanceolate with the apex blunt, indistinctly 
nerved, very glabrous, shining : pe.iulc terete. Racemes 
axillary, solitary or rarely 2 together, much shorter than 
the 'eaves. Fiowers small, numerous, shortly pedicelled, 
white, slightly fragrant: pedicels each furnished with a 
minut ■ bractea at the insertion. Calyx turbinate, 5-ra- 
rely 4-toothed ; teeth minute, patent. Petals 5, rarely 
4, rounded, waved, slightly clawed, alternating with the 
teeth of the Calyx. Stamens 12-20, rather longer than 
the petals ; filaments subulate, submonadelphous at the base, 
inserted into the cup -shaped yellow nectary, adherent to 
and covering the inner surface of the tube of the calyx. 
Ovary ovate : style length of the stamens: stigma capi- 
tato-depressed. Fruit spherical, size of a small cherry, 
purple, ripening in August : kernel ol a warm acrid taste, 
with a strong flavour of Prussic acid. 
The flowers of some trees of this species are imperfect, 
and in such the fruit is never perfected. 
iV. Rueus. Bramble . 
Calyx 5-cleft, naked. Petals 5. Stamens oo 
Fruit superior of several single-seeded juicy drupes 
with sublateral styles, placed on a protuberant 
spongy receptacle. 
Shrubs, or more rarely herbaceous plants: stems bien- 
nial, in general prickly; usually growing in hedges, or in 
waste places. The fruit of all the species is edible. — 
Lame derived from the Latin ruber. 
1. Rubus Jamaicensis. Jamaica Bramble 
or Black-berry. 
Stem anguloso-sulcated villous, prickles scat- 
