:0 HOItiyS JAMAlCi'JNSJS. ' 30.-^/iCE; 



From one to four feet high, growing in tufts. Culms simple, sBar-piy three-sided, 

 rusgecl, Icary below ; leaves slie*the<l, very long, equal to the cuim or Jonger, fiattishi 

 sijgiidy keeled, siriateci, linear, serrate-prickly along the keel and edge, stiliish ; the 

 upper pnes shorter aucl distant ;:>r!eathes alternate, crowded, keeled,' with a blunt 

 dagger j)oint in front ; cor3mbs pediuicled, laieraljiCotjipoiiad, shorter rhaii<the leaves^ 

 ic'ore ilouering crowded, nodding, afterwards divaricatuig ; p'ediincles eiotvgated, 

 jroiu the sheathes of the upper leaves, solitarj-, remote,' loose ; ttie upper ones crowds 

 ed ; spikelcts cylindricalrsiibulatej very shortly pedicelledj patnious, ferruginous j 

 bractes capillary, longer than the floretSj at the base of ti>e pedicels-, lowei'''gliinnes 

 ;-ho)Ter,. ovate, imbricate ; upper a little- longer, and between thern a middle 'Ho wer, 

 mate, and solitary, between the outer ones'.fe males, or an hermaphrodite ; filaments 

 three, very short; anthers linear ; genn ovate, margined, blackish, :Surrounded -tt 

 the base with from iwa to ibiir jointed bristled ; style long, undivided; stigma linear; 

 seed roundish, black-rust-coloured. Most commonly many of tiie spikelcts are male: 

 without atYy .females. : ^ , 



BoKHMERiA 'Stf Nettle Tkee. 

 Bo-VZBAST Mahoe See Dowis TiiSE, 



BONACE BARK. Genus Doubtful 



Cl. 4, OR. 1. Tetrandria mon(rg\jma.9 

 This is c-Jled hpnace hark ^>re by Browne,, who only describes the pericarp, ni^t 

 -Iiaving seen the flower; the other characters which foilovvare from Mr. A. Robinsou's 

 manuscript: - _: 



Gen. char. Calyx- a monophyllous bell-shaped perianth, cut lightly on the brim, 

 into four iaftceoJated equal parts ; no corolla; germ ovate, in the base of the cup ; 

 style short and thick, w;tfa a peltated stigma; there appeared no stamens, but ia 

 some flowers there were four small giobose uectareous giands ; the pericarp v/as a. 

 dry drupe, ovate, of the size and figure of an olive, having a two lobed nut, co~ 

 vered with a proper membrane, full, 



BONACE. 



Ccrtice fisso^ foli'is oblongis, racemis umbellulatis terminalibus.^ 

 Browne, p. 373. 

 Browne says this plant is common near Montego Bay, where it grows to a moderate 

 size. The bark makes very good ropes ; it is fine, and spreads in some shape like that 

 of the lasreho bark, though not so free or regular The seeds have a sharp biting taste. 

 Mr. Robinson found the'fruit ripe in September in New Liguanea mountains, not far 

 from Yal lab's River. The tv\igs were brown, slender, and dichotomous ; the leaves 

 alternate and sessile, with entire reflected margins, of an olive green coioui', somewhat 

 rough and shining above, but dull and blueish green beneath, and marked with altera 

 nate veins. From the bosom, of the upper leaf grew a short common peduncle,' pro- 

 truding from Its summit three or four proper pediincies, hardly half a line in length,, 

 each supporting a small olive-iike fruit, scarcely exceeding half an mch in length, 

 coQtaining oue nut, covered with a fibrous integument,. JHaving tasted the fruit he 



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