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CALYCIFLORiE. 
the leaf, leaves ovate bluntly acuminate glabrous 
shining pellucido-punctulated, berry one-seeded. 
II A B. Thickets, Liguanea. 
F L. April. 
A shrub, G-8 feet in height : branches erect, virgate, 
terete, towards the extremity minutely puberulous. 
Leaves about two inches in length: petiole puberulous 
Racemes few-flowered : peduncle of the same length as 
the petiole : pedicels about 3 lines in length, each furnish- 
ed at the base with an ovate puberulous bractea : brae* 
teoles 2, minute, acute, at the base of the calyx. Flowers 
white with a crimson tinge. Sepals subequal, rounded. 
Petals 4, rounded, minutely ciliated. Berry size of a 
large pea, scarlet, one-seeded : seed subglobose. 
Panicles towards the end of the branches 
axillary and terminal 2-3 together shorter than 
the leaves, peduncle dichotomously branched, 
divisions compressed ferrugineo-pubescent, with 
a sessile flower frequently at the bifurcation but 
with the others pedicelled, calycine lobes une- 
qual, leaves elliptico-lanceolate obtuse pellucido- 
punctulated, berry oblong. 
II A B. Salt-Hill, Port-Royal. 
FL. October. 
A shrubby tree, 10-15 feet in height: branches at the 
end compressed and ferruginous. Leaves acuminate 
with the apex blunt ; at the base acute and somewhat re- 
volute, entire, shining, glabrous except being puberulous 
along the under surface of the nerves, diagonally nerved, 
3 4 inches long and lA- broad : petiole teiete, channelled. 
Panicles solitary or 2-3, axillary and terminal, seldom 
more than 2 inches in length : peduncles angulose, ferru- 
gineo-pubescent, irregularly branched. Flowers rather 
large, white, shortly pedicelled. Bracteoles 2, minute, 
ovate. Calyx externally ferrugineo-puberulous with the 
lobes ciliated : the 2 outer ones rounded ; the 2 inner 
ovate and smaller. Petals 4, rounded, ciliated, oleoso- 
punctulated. Style decimate, villous at the base. Berry 
20. Eugenia Chrysophylloides. Star-apple- 
leaved Eugenia. 
