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CALYCIFLORiE. 
About 5 feet in height : branches long, stiff, thorny, 
thorns in pairs, suprafoliaceous, length of the leaves. 
Leaves in clusters, subsessile, small. Flowers axillary, 
subsessile, solitary, length of the leaves, white. Calyx 
minutely 4-partite, with the divisions acute, erect. Co- 
rolla funnel-shaped, tetragonal, 4-fid, with the lobes ovate, 
acute, patulous. Anthers linear. Ovary subrotund: 
stigma simple. Berry size of a small pea, many-seeded, 
white : seeds angular. 
Tribe III. HEDYOTIDEJE. 
Fruit capsular , 2-cclled ; cells many-seeded. Seeds not 
winged : albumen fleshy. 
IX. Macrocnemum. 
Calyx with the tube turbinate : limb minutely 
5-toothed, persistent. Corolla tubular, with the 
throat enlarged : lobes 5, ovate, acute, suberect. 
Stamens 5: filaments very hirsute above their 
middle : anthers oblong, included. Capsule open- 
ing at the side : seeds imbricated. 
Name from i aax^os great, and vTjfjua a stamen. 
1. Macrocnemum Jamaicense. Lofltj Macroc- 
nemum. 
Arborescent glabrous, leaves oblongo-ovate, sti- 
pules ovato-triangular longer than the petiole, 
corymb on a long petiole. 
M. arborescens, Browne, 165. — Swartz, Ohs. 68. t. 3. 
f. 1. 
nilB. Damp mountain woods. 
F L. May — July 
A tree about 40 feet in height : stem straight : branches 
spreading. Leaves 7-8 inches long and about 3 broad, 
subacuminate with the apex blunt, narrowing towards the 
base : petiole one-third of an inch in length. Sti- 
pules an inch and a half in length, accrete, oblong, 
ridged on the back, glutinous, membranaceous, deciduous. 
Cyme axillary, solitary : peduncle [longer than the leaf, 
3-chotomous. Flowers numerous, white, fragrant, shortly 
