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CALYCIFLOR.E. 
ends of the branches, Racemes terminal, axillary (?), 
solitary, many-flowered, length of the leaves, erect ; flow- 
ers sessile, minute. Calyx 5-toothed, internally villous 
contracted towards the limb, urceolate. Stamens 10, ex- 
serted. Fruit unknown. 
This species must be rare. It does not appear to have 
been met with by any Botanist, with the exception of 
Swartz. 
III. Conocakpus. Button Tree. 
Calyx 5-fid, deciduous. Petal? Q. Stamens 
5-10, exserted : anthers cordate. Ovary com- 
pressed, bi-ovuled : style 1, simple. Fruit suber- 
ose, coriaceous, scale-like, closely imbricated, 
indehiscent : seed 1, pendulous ; cotyledons in- 
voluted. 
Trees or shrubs ; leaves alternate, entire : flowers small, 
yellowish, in heads. Name from kovo S a cone, and Ka^oi 
a fruit. 
1. Conocarpus erecta. Upright Button Tree , 
or West India Alder. 
Leaves lanceolate attenuated at both ends fre- 
quently biglandulose at the base, heads ot flowers 
raccmed. 
Alni fruclu, laurifolia arbor maritima,, Sloane, II. 18. t. 
161. f. 2. — Rudbeckia laurifolia maritima, Anun. Herb. 
581. — Innominate, Plum. Ic } 135. t. 144, f. 2. — Alnus 
nriariUma, Pluk. aim. 18. t. 440. f. 3. — Conocarpus Man- 
ghana, Catesb. Car. II. 33. t. 33. — C. erecta, Jacq. Amer. 
78. t. 52. f. J. 
II A B. Common along the sea-shore. 
F. L. Autumn. 
A low tree, 10 30 feet in height, much branched : 
branches coloured, towards the extremity angulose, green, 
glabrous. Leaves irregularly alternate, lanceolate, acu- 
minate at both ends, entire, thiek’ish, almost nerveless, gla- 
brous, greasy to the loueh : petiole short, occasionally 
with a sessile subrotund depressed glandule at the base ol 
the attenuated portion of the leaf, som» times on one, at 
