*EiB IIORTUS JAMAICENSI*. T^ 



3. TRIANDRA. THREE STAMF.NED. 



Leaves broaJ, lanceolate, perennial, flat ; flowers three stamened ; fruit go- 

 vered by the calyx. 



4. CORIACEA. LEATHER LIKE. 



Leaves ovate-acuminate, flat, veined, shining, coriaceous ; racenaes upright^ 

 shorter than the leaves. 



5. MEMBRANACEA. ME^rBRA^ACEOUS. 



Leaves oblono;, acuminate, veined, convex, coriaccous-memferanaceous j 

 branches and racemes upright, shorter than the leaf. 



&. PATENS. OP EX. 



Leaves ovate-lanceolate, flat, membranaceous; racemes upright, diffused, 

 longer than the leaves. 



7. PENDULA. ITANGIFTGi- 



Foliis obverse ovatis subtus cinercis, fructibus oblongis sparsis, calici- 

 bus deciduis. Browne, p. 214. 



Leaves oblong, veined, membi:anaceous, pereunial ;. racemes loose; fruits pen- 

 dulous ; cah'xes deciduous, , 



Browne calls this the smaller laurel with oblong berries ; and sa3's he found this tree 

 in the road between Mount Diablo and the thickets in St. Ann's; it divided into a great 

 number of branches toward the top, was about twelve feet in. height, and four inches 

 in diameter near the root. The berries of this species are oblong and even, of an el- 

 liptic form, and seldom under an inch or better in length ; tliey are of a black colour, 

 Tery succulent, and contain each a single bilbbed kernel, without any partial covering; 



8. FLORIBUNDO. 



Leaves ovate- lanceolate, flat, membranaceous ; flowers raceme-panicled, loose, 

 terminating. 



All the above species are from Swartz Prodromus, p. 65. 



S'ee Avocado Pear Benjamin Camphire CINNAM0^5 Cogwood Sassafras- 

 Sweet wood. 



BEAD, HOOP, OR LILAC, TREE. MELLi. 



Cl. 10; or. 1. Deeandria vionogynia. Nat. or. Trihilatce. 



This is derived from a Greek word, signifying wood fit for spears. 



Gen. char. Calyx one leafed, five-toothed ; the corolla has five linear petals ; sta- 

 mens small filaments, with oblong anthers ; the pistil has a conicargermen, stjie 

 cylindric, the length of the nectary ; stigma capitate, with five converging valves,; 

 the pericarpium is a globular drupe, with a roundish five-grooved five-celled 

 kernel. 



I. AZEDARACHt. 



