of the filament. Germen wmferior, globular, five-celled, 
many-seeded : style simple. 
The name of Hamexia; of which there are several species, 
was given in honour of M. Henry Louis* Du Hamet Du 
Monceav, Inspector-General of the French Marine, and 
author of several esteemed works on Trees, by Professor 
JACQUIN. | 
Brown, in his History of Jamaica, assigns an altitude of 
eight or ten feet to this tree; but if the synonym of Stoang, | 
generally quoted, but which, we very much suspect, belongs 
to some other species, be correct, it becomes a very large and 
stately tree, affording broad planks, of which there were 
formerly exported great quantities for the use of cabinet- 
makers, under the names of Spanish Elm and Princes Wood. 
With us, it must be cultivated in the bark-stove, where it 
forms a flowering shrub, producing its yellow blossoms from 
September to November. Propagated by cuttings. Intro- 
duced in 1778, by Dr. Toomas Crarx. Communicated by 
the Comtesse de Vannes, from her extensive collection at 
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* Joun Bartist Du Hamer, was not Inspector of the Marine, nor & 
botanical writer ; and, therefore, was not the person to whose memory 
Jacquin intended to dedicate the genus Hametta, corrupted by LinnZus’ 
to HamELia, and more properly changed by Persoon to DuHAMELIA. — 
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