Bastar]* HORTUS JAJiIAICENSIS. 61 



timfolia. tixu3-leaved. 



Ceraso tiffinis arbor hacclfcra racemosa, ffove albo pentapefalo, fnictu 

 Jlavo inonopyreno eduti dtdci. Sloaue, v. 2, p. 94, t. 203, f. 1. 

 ^iliiwrea, foUis oblongo-o-uatii allernis, raccmis iermiualAus. 

 Browne, p. 168, t. 16, f. 1. 



Leaves oblong ovate, quiie entire, smooth, flo-.vcrs panicled. 



The root's of this tree spread all around on the surface of the earth, and send n.p an 

 xipright tree, rising from twenty to thirty feet high ; the trunk iias a dark brown fur- 

 roivetl t)ark, ith an oblong thick head. Branches unarmed, roundisii, subdivided!- 

 The leaves alternate, veined, blunt, smooth, dark green, on short petioles. Panicles 

 terminating, olctlong, squjye. Flowers terminating, numerous, white, small, standing 

 on CA>oked slender footstalks. The calyx is five-parted, segments of the corolla finally 

 rolled back ; fiiamcnts larger than the corolla. Berry sjjherical; at first yellow, then 

 black. It flowers in January and f'cbruary. '^his tree is common in the lower lands of 

 Jamaica, and rises to a considerable size in favourable situations. In the church yard 

 of St. Andrew's parish there are two or three trees from forty to fifty feet high, with 

 proportionate tliick trunks, and large spreading heads. The berries seldom exceed th 

 size of a large currant, and are frequently eaten. They also sefve to feed poultry. 



See Currant-Tree. 

 Bastard Germander See Germander, 



BASTARD GREENHEART. CALYPTRANTHES, 



Cl. 12, OR. 1. Icosandria mojiogynia. Nat. ok. Hespcrid.e. 



This genus takes its name from two Greek words, signifying a veil and a flowei-. 



Gen'. CHAR. Calyx a one-leafed perianthium, bell-shaped, truncate, toothless, or 

 very obscurely four-toothed, superior, permanent, covered with an orbiculai", 

 concave, deciduous, lid : There is no corolla ; the stamina are many capillary fila- 

 ments, inserted into tlie inside of the calyx at the rim; anthers roundish, twin, 

 -small ; the pistillum has a roundish germ, fastened to the bottom of the caK x, 

 two-celled, with a few seeds fixed to the partition ; style filiform, simple, bent 

 in the length of the stamens ; stigma blunt; the pericarpium a globular oblong 

 berry, crowned with the calyx, one-celled; seed single, or few, sliglitl}- angular. 

 There are tliree species, natives of Jamaica, the two first formerly united to the 

 geisus oiyrtus. 



1. chytraculia. 



Arbor ea, foliis ovatis glabris oppositis, raccmis terminalibus. Browne, 

 p. 239, t. 37, f. 2. 



Arboreous, peduncles terminating, panicled, trichotomous tomentose, leaves 

 ovate, attenuated at the tip. 



l3rowne says this, tree, which is called bastard greenheart, grows chiefly in the parish 

 j)f St. John, and is reckoned an e-xcelient timber wood, but it seldom exceeds fourteen 



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