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C A LYCI FLORAE. 
rolla with the tube terete 5 limb 5-partite. Fila- 
ments in some united as far as the throat 5 in 
others slightly cohering: anthers linear, exserted. 
Style filiform, club-shaped at the apex. Capsule 
crowned with the calyx or at length subnude, 2 - 
celled, dehiscent from the apex in the course of 
the septum : placenta linear in the middle of each 
locule : seeds numerous, imbricated backwards, 
with the margin winged: albumen fleshy: coty- 
ledons plane. 
Trees or shrubs, with leaves oval or lanceolate, and 
flowers white or reddish. The plants belonging to this 
genus are destitute of Quinine and Cinchonine, although 
they are nearly allied to the true Cinchonas, with which 
they were formerly arrang'd. — Name from sx out and 
< trs^ixu a crown . in allusion to the protrusion of the stamens ; 
one of the characters on account of which the genus has 
been separated from that of Cinchona. 
1. Exostemma Caribtea. West India Bark. 
Leaves ovato-lanceolate acuminate glabrous, 
peduncles axillary 1 -flovvered rather shorter than 
the petiole, calyx 5-toothed with the teeth short 
subulate, corolla usually longer than the leaf. 
Cinchona Caribaea, Jacq. Am. 61 . t. 197 . f. 95 — Swartz , 
Obs. 73 . — Gcertner de fiuct lift. 33 . f. 4 . — Wright’s 
Memoirs, 359 — Andr. Bot. Rep. 481 . — Lambert , Cinch . 
t. 4 . — Exostemma caribsea, Roemer et Sch. V. 18 . 
II A B Common, Limestone districts. 
FL. July — August 
A shrub 12-20 feet in height : branches erect, fastigiate, 
ash-coloured, somewhat rough. Leaves towards the ends 
of the branches, attenuated at the base, subacuminate with 
an apicula at the apex, glabrous witti exception of a slight 
villosity in the excavated axils of the under surface of the 
nerves, membranaceous, about 2.1,- inches long, and 1 inch 
broad: petiole -^d of an inch in length. Stipules deltoid, 
subulato apiculated, ciliated. Flowers axillary, solitary, 
white, slightly fragrant: peduncle very short. Jlracteoles 
2, minute, subulate, placed below the ovary. Tube of 
