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CALYCIFLORAJ, 
ex adverso sitis, Slocine, II. t. 2. f. 4. — Randia foliis sub- 
rotundis confertis, summis ramulis bispiniferis, floribus 
solitariis, Browne, 143. t. 8. f. 1. — Gardenia Randia, 
Swartz, FI. Ind. Occ. I. 526. — Randia latifolia, Lamark. 
diet. III. 24. t. 156. f. i. 
A A B. Common on dry hills and in thickets, southside 
of the Island. 
F L. August. 
A shrub, seldom more than 5 feet in height, much 
branched ; branchlets armed with thorns, which are usually 
in pairs, about half an inch in length. Leaves 2-4 clustered 
together. Stipules connate, subulate, marescent. Flow- 
ers subsessile, axillary, solitary, white, slightly fra- 
grant. Calyx minute, 5-toothed : teeth subulate. Tube 
of the corolla 4-6 lines in length : limb usually 5-, some- 
times 4- or 6-partite: lobes rounded, apiculated : throat 
villous, Stamens 5, rarely 4 or 6, in the hairs of the 
throat. Ovary depressed : style protruding : stigmata 2, 
greenish. Berry subrotund, purple ; seeds 6-8. 
(3 Randia mitis. Unarmed Randia. 
Leaves larger than in the preceding oval, spines 
usually none, flowers fewer and larger. 
Cacao affinis frutex spinosus, Iycii facie, jasmini flore 
albo. Sloane, II. 18. t. 161. f. 1. — Gardenia mitis, Swartz, 
FI. Ind. Occ. I. 528. — Sim’s, Bot. Mag. 1841 — Randia 
mitis, Linn. Spec. 214. 
DAB. St. Thomas in the East. 
F L. August. 
This is regarded as a luxuriant variety of the former. 
It is found in situations where the soil is good, and the 
climate humid. Swartz informs us that this shrub was 
known in his time as the ink-berry, or the Indigo, from the 
circumstance of the juice of the fruit staining linen so 
permanently as to resist both soap and washing for its 
removal. 
. V. Petesia. 
Calyx subrotund 4-5-toot hed with the teeth, 
short. Corolla infundibuliform, 4-5-cleft. Sta- 
mens 4-5, within the tube. Berry subglobosc, 
naked at the apex, 2-celletl, many-seeded. 
