■what clavate at the summit: stigma entire, or of 2 agglutinated lobes.
Fruit fleshy, globose-compressed and somewhat didymous, crowned with the
calyx-teeth, including 2 oblong coriaceous nucules. Seeds suspended. Embryo
straight, in the axis of somewhat cartilaginous albumen : radicle long
and slender: cotyledons small.—Shrubs (tropical American), often with
sarmentose branches. Leaves petioled, glabrous. Stipules connate. Flowers
white or often turning yellowish, in axillary opposite racemes. (Root
emetic, &c.)
1. C. racemosa (Jacq.): leaves oval, acute at each end; corolla many
times longer than the teeth of the calyx ; filaments puberulent.—Jacq. stirp.
Amer. p. 68 ; Michx.! fl, L. p. 103 ; Andr. hot. rep. t. 284 ; Hook.! exot.
fl. t. 93 ; DC. prodr. 4. p. 482. (e. Floridana.) Jasminum flore myrtino,
&c., Sloane, Jam. t. 188. ƒ. 3. Periclyiitenum racemosum, &c., Dill. Elth.
t. 228, f . 295. Lonicera alba, Linn. spec. 1. p. 175.
Sea coast of Florida, Michaux! Key West, Mr. Blodgett! (Also West
Indian & Mexican.)—Leaves 2-3 inches long, and an inch or more broad,
abruptly tapering at the base into a narrow petiole, somewhat shining above.
Racemes in the axils of the uppermost leaves, and exceeding them in length,
usually simple; the flowers somewhat secund, “ at first white and inodorous,
but at length yellowish and odorous” . Fruit about the size of a pea,
white. The branches are sometimes sarmentose ; the leaves somewhat variable
in form, and often acuminate ; and the racemes either simple or paniculate.—
Snowberry.
8. PSYCHOTRIA. Lin n .; Gesrtn.fr. t. 25; DC. prodr. 4. p . 504;
W. A m . prodr. Ind. Or. 1. p. 432.
Calyx-tube ovate ; the limb short, 5-lobed, 5-toothed, or somewhat entire.
Corolla infundibuliform, usually short, 5- (or rarely 4-) deft, regular, with
the throat glabrous or bearded; the limb spreading or recurved; the segments
incurved at the point: aestivation valvular. Stamens 5, or rarely 4 :
anthers exserte'd or included within the throat of the corolla. Stigma 2-cleft.
Fruit drupaceous, containing 2 nucules, crowned with the limb of the calyx,
usually marked with 10 ribs by drying; sometimes 4-angled and with
four furrows, sometimes even ; nucules chartaceously coriaceous, ribbed,
angled, or even, 1-seeded. Seed erect, with a cartilaginous solid (not ruminated)
albumen.—Trees or shrubs, rarely herbaceous plants. Leaves opposite,
petioled. Peduncles usually terminal. Flowers panicled or corymbose.
Am .
1. P. lanceolata (Nutt.): leaves lanceolate, acuminate at each end; the
lower surface as well as the branchlets ferruginous-pubescent; stipules am-
plexicaul, roundish, deciduous, sphacelate; corymb terminal, trichotomous
at the base. DC.—Nutt, in Sill. jour. 5. p. 290 (1822) ; DC. prodr. 4.
p . 513. '
East Florida, Mr. Ware.—“ Leaves 2-3 inches long. Berries ovate,
red.”—This is unknown to us. De Candolle remarks that he has seen a
specimen collected by Michaux. We have insufficient specimens, apparently
belonging to another species of Psychotria, collected in Florida by Dr.
Leavenworth.
Tribe III. GUETTARDEjE. Kunth.
Fruit drupaceous, 2-8-celled, or containing 2-8 one-seeded nucules«
Seeds somewhat terete, elongated, usually erect. Albumen mostly
fleshy. ^Estivation of the corolla usually contorted or valvate.—■
Small trees, shrubs, or very rarely herbs. Stipules between the petioles.
Subtribe 1. Morindea:, DC.—Flowers and fruit aggregated in a densë
head and more or less coherent with each other. ^Estivation of the corolla
valvate.—Tropical shrubs or small trees.
9. MORINDA. Vaill.; L in n .; Lam. All t. i53 ; Gcertn. fr . t. 29.
Calyx-tube obovate, cohering with the adjoining flowers; the limb short,
scarcely toothed. Corolla infundibuliform; the tube somewhat terete; the
limb spreading, 5- (rarely 4-) lobed. Stamens 5 (rarely 4): filaments short:
anthers usually included. Style filiform: stigma 2-cleft; the lobes filiform.
Fruit baccate, containing 2-4 nucules, all usually concreted into a compound
subglobose frhit, which is areolate with the traces of the calyx, Em bryo
terete, in a fleshy albumen.—Shrubs or trees. Leaves opposite, rarely
3 or 4 in a whorl. Stipules within^the petioles, usually obtuse. Peduncles
solitary or several together, axillary, opposite the leaves (from the suppression
of a leaf), or terminal. Flowers sessile upon a globose receptacle.
(Bark of the root styptic and used for dyeing.)
1. M.Jlo'toc (Linn.) : glabrous, procumbent at the basé; leaves broadly
oblanceolate, acute, gradiially narrowed at the base into a short petiole j
stipules broad and very short, bimucronate; peduncles short, axillary of
opposite a leaf; stamens somewhat exserfed.—Linn. spec. 1. p. 176 • Jaca.
hort. Vmdob. t. 16; DC. prodr. 4. p. 448. Róyöc humifusum, Plümitr-,
MS-m?. m L 26- Penclymenum Americanum, &c., Pluk. alm. U
212, J. 4.
Key West, Mr. Blodgett! Common in the West Indies, &c.__Leaves
2-3 inches long, glabrous on both surfaces, except a pubescence in the axils
of the larger veins underneath. Peduncles 4-6 lines long, usually opposite
ci leak xleads about naif an inch, in diameter. Flowers crimson.
Subtribe 2. M itch e l l e ^ .—Flowers solitary, of geminate vvith theft-
ovaries united. ^Estivation of the corolla valvate. Albumen somewhat
cartilaginous or corneous.—Creeping evergreen hefbs, natives of the northern
and southern extratropical regions, arid on mountains within the tropics.
10. MITCHELLA. L in n .; Lam, ill. t. 63; Gesrtn.fr, t. 192.
Chamsedaphne, Mitch,.} not of Buxb,
Flowers in pairs, with their ovaries united. Limb of the calyx conspicuous,
4-toothed. Corolla infundibuliform, with a slendef tube, 4-lobed ; the lobes
spreading, densely hirsute or bearded within (as well as the throat) with
white hairs, Stamens 4, somewhat included: filaments inserted into the
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