CALYCIFLOR-1’,. 
nerved glabrous on the upper surface, thyrse ter- 
minal few flowered, alibastrum ovoid puberulous, 
calyx hemispherical at the base, petals 6, stamens 
20 ." 
DC. Prod. III. 174. 
H A B. Portland. Woods near Cornwall Barracks. 
F L. Throughout the year. 
About 10 feet in height. Leaves 9 inches in length, 
and upwards of 3 inches broad, blunt at the apex, 5- 
nerved including the marginal pair, indistinctly denticul- 
ated : petiole 2 \ inches long. Thyrse erect, shorter than 
the leaves: peduncle tetragonal, hirsute with ferrugineo- 
ramose hairs : divisions short, patulous : flowers white, 
shortly pedicelled. Bracteae 3-2 at the base of each pe- 
dicel, small, ovate, obtuse, concave, hirsute. Alibastrum 
obtuse. Petals 6 ; margin undulated ; emarginato-trun- 
cated at the apex. Stamens about 20 : filaments sub- 
erect : anthers pale yellow. Ovary sub-globose : style 
declinate : stigma capitate, stellato-sulcnted, perforated. 
“Berry 12-celled. — DC.” 
This differs in some respect from the description of 
DeCandolle ; according to whom the petals are S-10. 
Notwithstanding this, 1 am of opinion that our plant is 
the same with that collected by De la Ossa near the Ha- 
vannah, and by Richard in Guadaloupe. 
2. Conostegia gloriosa. Sujierb Conostegia. 
Glabrous, branches subtetragonal, leaves ob- 
longo-lanceolate obscurely denticulated 3-nerved, 
panicles terminal cymose with the branches erect, 
alibastrum ob conical, petals 6, stamens IS. 
H AB. Road over the Khuna-Khur.a ridge to Portland, 
beyond Lady-field. 1*-* \ 
F L. August — December 
A tree about 12 feet in height: branches spreading; 
branchlets subtetragonal, puberulous. Leaves opposite, 
decussating, marked with transverse parallel nerves ; 
bright green above, about 5 inches long and 2 inches 
