jtoRUK HORTUS JAMAICENSIS. 7 



The small shnibhy acidoton is pretty common in the savannas about Ne-.v-Greenwirb, 

 where it seldom rist-s above four feet in heiglit. The brandies are very slender i.nj 

 flexile, and the leaves small and delicate, and shoot with the tiovvers early in Apni or 

 May. The whole plant has a good deal ot the appearance ot" a young chon^. Biowiie. 



These plants are nearly allied to the croton. Dr. Houston constituted a genus of the 

 two first by the title of beniardia, in honour of Dr. Bernaixi de Jussieu. They are pro- 

 "jjagated from seeds. 



No English Name. ADENANTHERA. 



Cl. 10, OR. \.Decandriamonogi/nia. N.^T. ok. Loinentace^. 



This name is derived from two Greek words, signifying a glandulous anther. 



Gen. CHAR. Calyx small, one-leafed, five-toothed; corolla fivepetalled, bell- 

 shaped; stamina shorter than the* corolla ; anthers roundish, incumbent, bearing 

 a globose gland at the outer' tip ; ^ermsn oblong and gibbous belov.- ; style suba- 

 late and tlie length of the stamina ; stigma simple ; the pericarpium a long com- 

 ])ressed membranaceous legumen ; seeds many, round, remote. This is un East- 

 India tree, of which three species are known, the most remarkable is noticetl in 

 the Hortus Eastensis as having been introduced into tliat garden by Mr. Wiles, in 

 the year 1S02. The following account of it is quoted froniGaertner and Forster, iu 

 J)r. Martyn's dictionary : 



PAVOXINA. 



Leaves sm.ootb -on both si Jos. 



A tree with prodigious decompound or doubly pinnate leaves, leaflets ovate, obtuse,' 

 fjuite entire, on very short petioles, sometimes alternate, sometimes o]inosite. Panicle 

 of sini]ile thick racemes, with the flosjules on equal pedicels. Flowers coniparatively 

 Very small, and yellow. Legume nearly a foot in length, repand at the sutures and 

 obscurely torulose at the seeds, smooth, one-celled, two-vaived. The valves after liiey 

 open are loosely and spirally tuisted. Seeds from eight to twelve, obuvate-rouiJed, 

 convexly lens-shaped, highly polished, of i^vivid scarlet colour, wuii a circuh.r streak 

 in the middle on each side. This is one of the largest trees in tue Eust-Indies, a:ul the 

 timber is in common use, on account of its solidity. It flowers in September, bears 

 Iruit at the beginning and end of the year, and is never without leaves. The duration 

 is two hundred years. The natives use the powder of the leaf in their ceremonies. The 

 seeds, besides being eaten by the common people, are of gre; t use to tne ieweliers 

 and goldsmiths, on account of their equality, for weights, eacn or tiiem weigiiing f.jur 

 grains : They also make a cement, iiy beating them up witii water an,, boras. Of the 

 bruiicd leaves tiiey make a drink which they esteem good ag.uust pains of ine loins. 



ADRUE. CYPERUS: 



Ci.. 3, OR. 1. Triandvia mcnogijnia. Nat. o.n. Calamaria. 

 G EN. CHAR. The glumes are cha%, imbricate in two rows ; scaies ovate, keeled, flat- 

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