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CALYCIFLOIliE. 
stigma obtuse. “ Berry crowned, size of a large pea, 2-4- 
seeded. Swartz.” 
This receives in some places the name of “the Wild 
Cinnamon .” Its Haytien name is “ Bois d’ Inde.” 
HL Calyptranthes. 
Calycine tube obovate : limb previous to flow- 
ering entire, afterwards separating at the base 
and forming a lateral and eventually deciduous 
operculum. Petals O j or 2-3, very small. Sta- 
mens oo : filaments capillary : anthers small, 
round, bilocular. Style single : stigma simple. 
Ovary 2-3 celled j cells at the central angle 2- 
ovuled. Berry by abortion 1-celled, l-4-seeded‘. 
—DC. 
Name from xaXuirr^ ov a lid, and avdog a flower, in allusion 
to the peculiar form of the calyx. 
1. Calyptranthes rigida. Stiff-leaved Calyp- 
tranthes* 
Arborescent dichotomously branched, leaves 
ovate subacute at the base slightly convex gla- 
brous, peduncles interpetiolar for the most part 
simple subtriflorous occasionally trichotomously- 
subdivided with the central branch 3-flowered, 
the lateral ones 1-2 flowered. 
Sioartz, FI. Ind. Occ. 923. 
II A B. St- Catherines’ peak. Gap below Dublin Castle, 
St. Andrew’s. Near the Moneague, Dr. Alexander. 
F L. July — August. 
A low tree : young branchlets bifario-lineatcd. Leaves 
an inch and a half long, opposite, subacuminate with the 
apex blunt, subattenuated at the base, entire, shining, stiff, 
almost nerveless, very obscurely pellucido-punctulated. 
Peduncles interpetiolar, for the most part solitary, com- 
pressed : pedicels about two lines in length. Calyx with 
the calyptra adhering on one side till the fruit is perfected. 
Petals O ♦ Filaments numerous, capillary : anthers very 
minute, spherical, yellow. Style subulate, slightly curv- 
