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CALYCI FLORAE. 
Myrti foliis arbor cortice a r genteo? Sloan e, Hist. II. 78 
t. 187. f. 3. — Arbor foliis cordatis rnyrtineis oppositis, 
bacc's dispermis; B/owne Jam. 370. — Petaloma myr- 
tilloides, Swartz. FI. Inrf . Occ. II. 833. — Mouriria myr- 
tilloides, DC. Prod. III. 7. 
HAB. St John’s hills. 
FL. April. May. 
There appears reasons for doubting whether the plant 
of Swartz, be identical with that of Sloane and Browne. 
The latter describe their plant as being a tree, twenty 
feet in height. As I have not met with the plant, I give 
the description of Swartz. 
A shrub, 2 -3 feet in height, with the bark ferrugineous 
with silvery white spots: leaves subsessile, ovate, nerve- 
less, entire. Peduncles axillary, soli'ary, longer than the 
petiole, 1-flowered. Flowers rather large, white. Calyx 
urceolate, 5-fid: divisions patent, reflected, persistent. 
Petals 5, shortly clawed, oblong, acuminate, patent, de- 
ciduous. Stamens 10: filaments subulate, erect : anthers 
rather large, biporose, ye] low. Style rather t hick, curved 
at the apex : stigma obtuse. Berry ovate, 1-seeded, black, 
shining. 
ORDER 
LXVIII COMBRETACEhE. 
Flowers hermaphrodite, rarely, from abortion, 
polygamous. Tube of the Calyx adhering to the 
ovary ; limb 4-5-lcbed. Petals none, or 4-5, al- 
ternating with the lobes of the calyx, inserted on 
the apex of the tube Stamens with a similar 
insertion : anthers 2-celled, opening bv 2 longi- 
tudinal clefts. Ovary I —cel led ^ ovules 2-4, pen- 
dulous from the apex : style 1; stigma simple. 
Fruit drupaceous, berried, containing a nut, l- 
celled, by abortion 1-seeded, indchiscent, general- 
ly furnished with wings: seed pendulous, filling 
the cavity of the pericarp, exalbuininose : embryo 
