H0RTU3 JAMAICENSIS. bastaro 



tux sub-villosis et nervosis i spicis ramosis, terminal ibus. Browne, 

 p. 214, t. 21, f. 1. 



Leaves oblong lanceolate, quite entire, hoary underneath ; racemes panicledj 

 spike-shaped, tomentose. 



Sloane calls this the hastard locus tree, and says it has a very tliick trunk, covered 

 with a smooth clay coloured bark, having brc^nches ec^ualiy spreatl roiuiJ alxiui it, wuich 

 towards their ends are beset with leaves, five inches ^n^, aii.l iiaif ts broad. Tlie truit 

 comes on tlifi ends of the twigs, being a st ilk or suing, on wuicij gruvv several green 

 roundish berries. Tne puip is sweet, wtiite, rueaiiy, inciudiig a hard browmsii oiat* 

 stone. Tlie berries are ripe in August, wiien tney hdi ou tne trues, unucr which they 

 are gathered and eaten, and thougnt a pleasant desert. Siou/i. 



Browne calls it the Volkameria, with oblong leaves, and says, this shrubby tree is 

 very common in Sixteen Mile Walk, and rises geiier^ihy to tne height of tvvelve or lour- 

 teen feet. It seems to have a near resemblam e to Uie ijcus Deny cree, (see BarbaUoes 

 cherry, p. 50,) but it is really very different, for the parts and uisposiiion of tue How- 

 ers are entirely peculiar. The filaments rise from the bottom of me tlower, just about 

 the gernien, and are not so long as either the petals or tiie cup. The hovver tops are 

 rather so many bunches composed of simple spikes, rising gradually one above anoiner j 

 but each of the flowers are supported by a subuiated stipuia, or -ear, while young. 



We have called this tree by the name of Volkameria, to perpetuate the memory of 

 that famous botanist. Browne^ 



Bastard Mahogany See Mahogany. 

 Bastard Mammee See Sancta Maria. 



BASTAUD MANCHIONEEL. CAMERARiA: 



Cl. 5, OR. 1. Pentandria motiogi/nia. Nat. or. Contoitie. 



So named by Plumier, in honour of Joachim Camerarius, a physician and botanist o 

 Nuremberg. 



Gen. char. Calyx five cleft; corolla monopetalous, ffinnel form, border five- 

 parted ; stamina very small, anthers converging ; the pistillum has two germens, 

 with lateral appendages ; styles hardly any, stigmas obscure ; ll:e pencarjnum has 

 two follicles, horizontally reflected ; seeds numerous, ovate, and uiserted on the 

 larger ovate membrane at the base, imbricate. Tnere are two speeie.s, both natives 

 of Jamaica. 



1, latifolia. broad-leaved. 

 jirborea foliis ovato acuminatis nitidis rigidis rejiectentibus, /cUiculis 

 alatis. Browne, p. 182. 



Leaves ovate, acute at both ends, transversely striated. 



The branchlets of this tree are mostly forked, or in two divisions. The leaves are 

 quite entire, very shining, rather rigid, petioled, opposite, numerous, somewhat re- 

 sembling those of myrtle : peduncles one or many flowered, slender, long, axiilarv, 



or- 



