no HORTUS JAMAICET^SIS.- ekazileTto* 



iriinrite, nerveless, snnooth on the upper surface and shining, beneath hoary, ierrugin- 

 ous, or ash-coloured, covered with vry minute ferruginous dots ; petioles angular, 

 hoary, ferruginous; peduncles terminating, somewhat brunched, ibrming-a sort of 

 umbel, compressed, marked with lines, ferruginous ; flowers rather large ; leaflets. of 

 the calyx rcBex, convex, while on the inside, ferruginous beneath, and somewh^it 

 rrtgged ; petals twice as hirge as the calyx, entire, white tinged with purple, spotted, 

 with rust colour on the outside, decidnotis *, nectariferous glands four, small, ovate, 

 acute, compressed, permanent ; filaments long, meeting at the base round the gelm, 

 v.Tth a pale red pile on them ; anthers almost erect, acuminate, curved inwards, yel- 

 low ; germ elongated, minute, on a very short pedicle ; style the length of the sta- 

 mens ; stigma thickened, obtuse, ferriigir.ous ; the fruit is a long cylindnc, subtoioi- ' 

 lose, two-valved, legume; containing several kidney-shaped seeds. It is a native of' 

 chy coppices near the sea in Janraica,^ and nriost other islands in the West ladies. -Sw... 



Besides the above native species of capparis, the spinosa, or caper shrub, was intro-- 



duced by Mr. East, in 17-74. 



BRAZILETTO. C.^SALPINIA. 



Cl. 10, OR. 1. Decaticlria moncgynia. Nat. or. Lornentacem. * 

 Gen. CiiAR. Sec Earbadoes Pride, p. 51. The two follov.ing species are natives of 

 Jamaica : 



. 1. ^ERAZiLIENSIS. BRAZIL.- 



Pseudo sffntalum croccum. Sloane, v. 2j p. T84, t. -182, f. 3, 4. 



Arborea, inermis '; Joliisinmorikus paribus hipinnatis, ligno kct'^ 

 inesino. Browne, }>. 2'27. ' ' - '. 



'Tnajraied, leaflets ovate-oblong ; m'ldrib pubescent ; calyxes tomentose ; sta- 

 aiens shorterthan the corolla. 



This is the tree vdiich affords the brasiletto wood, so m-uch used in dying. The 

 Isranches are slender, and fall of small prickles ; the leaves branch out into many divi- 

 5.ions,'the leaftets oval, indented at top and opposite, very like those of tne logwood ; 

 the peduncles from the side tjf the branches terminated by a loose pyramidal spike of 

 white flowers, beautifully variegated with red. The corolla has five leaves, the upper 

 one has its i.iagues tububid and its bractea patent, the whole resembling. a little trum- 

 r)et.'~ The poas intilose several small round seeds. Mr. Hellot gives the following me- 

 thod of imparting durability to the colour of braziletto dye' ; it consists only in letting 

 decoctions of the wood stand fpr some time, in v/ooden casks, till it grows stale and 

 ropj' ; pieces of woollen cloth dyed in tiris liquor acquired a colour so durab/e, that, 

 tlieywcfe not in the least altered by exposure to the air, during- four montiis in the 

 winter season. Mr. A. Robinson observes, that the seeds of this tree are often de- 

 stroyei hy inFccts, and tihe pod4 a long-while heh^i^ tr?-:-',' drop, 



Tijis tree grows in every part of Jamaica where tiie sou is dry and rocLy; it is an ex- 

 cdilent timber wood, but sekiom exceeds eight or ten inches in diameter, in the ftiost 



.perfect state. The wood is elasticj . tough, and dui^abie, and bears a tine polish ;. it 'n. 



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