46 IIOKTUS JAMAlCEXSrS. _ baoe4 



small sharp membranaceous angle next the pibtil ; by the seeds, next the biise, are 

 three small appr-essed toothkis. 



Sloane says the sialk is as big as a goose quill, that the leaves stand opposite, and 

 that it grew on the entrance ot'thc red hills, on the Guanaboa road. 



4. CfERULEA. BLUE. 



Leaves elliptic ovate, acute, glabrous ; racemes terminal panicled. 



Stem sarmentose, climbing ; branches round, with a whitish bark, somewhat rough. 

 Leaves quite entire, glaucous, on short petioles ; peduncles short, bracted. Calyx 

 five-parted half way down. Flower blueish. Filaments short, equal, styles erect. 

 Fruit somewhat woody and tomentose, with the wing of a sulphur glaucous colour. 



Browne says all the species grow in the gravelly bills al)out Kmgston and St. James's, 

 they are all climijera, rising by slendei' steujs to seven, ten, or fourteen, feet hiffli, 

 Tiiey dilier from the viaipigliui chiefly by the nakedness of their seeds. 



BA:;jii.\M .fe Egg Plant. 



BAOBAB. ADANSONL\. 



Cl. 16, ou. 5. Monodelphia Polyandria. Nat. r. Cohmimfevic. 



This was named from M. Adanson, a French surgeon, who resided many 3 cars m 

 Senegal, and brought, home a curious collection of seeds and plants. 



Gen. cjiaR. Calyx a one-leafed perianthium, half five-cleft, cupform, divisions ' 

 revolute, deciduous : corolla five-pctalled, roundish, nerved, revolute, connected 

 by the claws with each other and the stamens : the stamina are numerous filaments 

 iniited at bott()m in^u a tube, which the}' crown, expanding horizontally ; anthers 

 kidney shaped, incumbent ; the pistillum has an ovate germen, the style long, tu- 

 bulous, variously intorted ; the stigmata are numerous (10), pri.smatic, villous, ray- ' 

 expanded : the pericarpiuni an ovate woody capsule, not gaping, ten-celled, ii]i 

 farinaceous pulp, the partitions membranaceous : seeds luunerous, kidney shaped, 

 rather bonj-, and involved in a friable pulp. This genus is nearly allied to the 

 bombax ; the fructification ditlering only in the seeds being covertd with meal in- 

 stead of wool or cotton. It is a native of Africa, and was introdnced by ]\lr. East. 

 There is only one species. 



DIGITATA. rPNGERED, 



Leaves in three or five finger-like divisions. 

 This tree is called Ethiopian sour gourd, monkies bread, or calabash tree, an^ is 

 perfiaps, the largest production of the whole vegetable kingdom. M. Adanson avs 

 though the trunk is not above twelve or fifteen feet high, they are from sixty-five to 

 seventy-eight feet round. The lowest branches extend almost horizontally ; and as 

 they are about sixtj- feet in length, their own weight bends their extremities to the 

 grbund, and thus form an hemispherical mass of verdure, of from one hundred and 

 twenty to one hundred and thirty feet in diameter. The roots extend as far as the 

 branches ; that in the middle forms a pivot, whi-ch penetrates a great way into the earth, 

 tke rest spread near the surface. The flowers are in proportion to the size of the tree 



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