^ HORTUS JARrAICENSIS? tabbadoes, 



cerasino fuhaio folypt/rcno, ossiciilis ranr.ulalis. f-iloanc, v. 2, p. 

 106, t. 207, f. 3. Viminea Joliis obhrngis hispidis, racemis aiaribu.,, 

 Browne, p. '-29, 



Leaves nblong^ ovate,-.with.r!gid decumbentibristles uuderneaU'. poduncles one- 

 flowered asiijreirate^ 



Thi:^ is called ffr'nrinff Barhadocs, or co-vh age c\iQrry ; it rises with a sbronpr upright 

 stem about thrss feet hiirh, covered with abro-.vn bark, sending out sevv^ral side branches 

 which grow erect. Leaves ending in acute points, sessile, covered witli fi;;e liristlcs, 

 which do not appear unless closely viewed ; these are donhle pointed, and sustained 

 by pedicels of the same fragile transparent substance with themselves, descending from 

 the middle of them; these are easily broken, but tlie briitles enter pretty deep,' and 

 Stick close to whatever has forced them off; The pale purple flowers come out upon 

 long slender peduncles from the axils at each joint, four, five, or six together, in a 

 sort of whorl. Tlie three styles stand apart.- It grows about- the to-.vns of Kingston and 

 St. Jago de ia Vega, in great plenty. 



6. CRASSirOUA. TinCK LEAVED. 



AKhorea, foliis subrolunclis, alternis, inferne siihlunugincsis ; gpicis 

 crassis compositis lermhwUbus. Browne, p. 231. 



Leaves ovate, quite entire, tomentose underneath, racemes terminating. 



Browne calls this the kirger locus-berru tree. The upper branches tiTminate in loose 



pearance of a cpminiu.- Browne, 



7. CORIACEA.. LEATHERY. 



Tili^e affinis laurifolia, arbuii fioribiis alhis raccmosis cdoratis, fyuctvL 

 pentagono. Sibane, v. 2, ]>. 20, t. U'i3, f. 1. jlrbcrea jiuribus: 

 spicatis, foliis ovato acuminatis. Browaie, 230. 



Leaves ovate, acute, entire, smooth on both sides, racemes terminating spiked. 



* This tree, which Brov\nie calls /or;f5-o^r?;?/, rises about thirty or forty feet high, by 

 r. thick trunk, covered with a clay coloured furrowed hark. It is common in the lower 

 iiills of Liguanea. The leaves come out irregidarly on small footstalksj and, while 

 young, arc covered on both sides with down, but this falls off gradually, and they ap- 

 pear pretty smooth and shining after a short time. Tiiere is a remarkable stipula, oi; 

 ear, at the ala of every leaf, which, with its opposite, seems to embrace the stalk. On 

 the ends of the twigs come out the fiowers several together, white, and very sweet 

 scented, succeeded by the seeds, two of which are generally abortive. Sloaiieand. 

 Brozi^ne. 

 All the above species are easily propagated from seeds. , 



Barbadoes-Gooseberry -5'<:c Prkkly Pear.. . 



" B.VRBADOES : 



