iO HORTU.S JAMAICENSIS. 



AKDROWEPA 



depressed gei-mcn, immersed in the calyx, no siylc, tho stigmn thickish, four- 

 eonicred, l.olLowed out crosswise ; the pericarpiu in a large drupe, oiie-colied, a- 

 cuuiinate at the base and tip, crowned with the cal_yx ; the seed is a nucleus scored 

 with eight furrows. There is only one species, which is a native of Jamaica : 



CAULIFLORA. 



Pal mi.'; a (fin is mains persica maxima caitcJice non ramnso, foliis lon^ 

 ffissimis, J/orc tclrapctalo puUide liitco, J ruciu ex arboris trunco 

 prodeioitc Sloanc, v. i:, p. 122, t. 216&"217. Foliis tripcdalibus 

 obovalis, Jloribus per cau/ciii et ramos sparsis. Browne, p. 245. 



Tins has an undivided trunk, no bigger than one's leg, covered witir a grey hark, 

 tapering towards the top, rising to twenty feet high, having near its top the vestigia of 

 several leaves which have formerly dropped otf The leaves come out only round near 

 the top for half a foot in length, they have no foot-staUvs, are two and a lialf I'eet long 

 and six inches broa 1 in the nnddle, where broadest; beginning very narrow, they grow 

 v\'ider in the middie, and thence decrease, ending biuntiy. Ttiey have one iiiidiUe rib 

 and several transverse ones, they shine, and are smooth and tiiin. Two or three feet 

 below the top, along the trunk, come out the flowers, without almost any footstalk, 

 sometimes singly sometimes in tufts; they are at first a round knob or button, vvhicii 

 afterwards opens into a teti-apetalons flower, ttie petala being thick, pale yellow, and 

 full of a great many stamina, smelling very sweet, to winch follows a fruit hke to the 

 mammee saj>oia in bigness, shape, colour, &c. It grows going to Sixteea-Mile-Walk, 

 on the river-side, and in several other places. Sluane. 



This tree fr<!quently grows to the height of fifty feet. Branches at the toj) simple, 

 short, or none. The upi igiitness of tiie growth, and the largeness of the leaves give 

 it a very elegant appearance. The fruit is about the size of an alligator's egg, and hke 

 itinshaj3e, only a little more acute at one end, and of a brown russet colour ; when 

 pickled it resembles the mango. This tree is frequent in many parts of Jamaica, and 

 grows generahy in low moi;it bottoms, or shallow waters. The seeds grow \cvy readily 

 wherever they meet with a sufticient quantity of moisture, and propagate so thick that 

 they are frequently found formed into thickets or large clusters. Barluim is Bnxcne, 



Yo English Name. ANDROMEDA. 



Cl. 10, OR. 1. Decandria monogi/nia. Nat. or. Uncertain. 



This plant is named from the daughter of Cepheus and Cassiope, who was rescued 

 from a sea-monster by Perseus. 



Gen. CHAR. Calyx five-parted, acute, small, coloured, permanent; corolla mono- 

 petalans, campannlate, fi\e-cleftcd, clefts reflex ; stauiina shorter than the co- 

 rolla and scarcely fixed to it ; anthers two-horned, nodding ; the pistillum has a 

 roundish germen, style cylindric, longer than the stamens, permanent; stigma 

 obtuse; capsule roundish, five-cornered, five-celled, five-valved, opening at the 

 corners, partitions contrary ; seeds very nianv, roundish, shining. Ther are 

 tiiree species noticed by Swartz as natives of Jamaica, as follow-; 



1. JAMAICENSIS. 



