MO IIORTUS JAIMAlCl'.NSlS. TSI'CK 



2. SARCOMPK.U.l'S. 



I-oJiis oiafis ^lahris filferin's ad aplcem Icnitev emarginaits, corticfif 

 i)iti'riorifcrrugi)io. Browne, p. 1*9, 



Leaves oval, coriaceous, quite entiro, eraargiimte. 



Th\s\s cdWed baslard ligiiH)}! vft^e fiiiilicr rvond, q;\-ows \n manv parts of thfi island, 

 and rises "cnc.-rally to a very coiisidorable hciglit ; tiie trunk is often aljove two feet and 

 a half in ciiameter, and covered witli atliick scaly bark. The wood is hard, oP a dark 

 colour, and close grain ; and is looked upon as one of the best tiinberwoods in the 

 island. Byozumc. 



It beare a globose fruit with the calyx at the base, abont tbreP-qnartors of an inch in 

 diameter, and of a very obscKre j^urple ; the pericarp is smooth, f)ut little or nothing, 

 shining, having a mealy, moist, esculent ]julp, not in the least disagreeable, within 

 which is an ovate nut, penetrated by two ovate holes at its upper end, leading to the 

 tHO cells, in which it not a little resembles the coco-nnt. The outsicle of this nnt is 

 5: mewiiat rugged. When young this tree appears widely ditfereut from what it does 

 when old, it then having tliorns 'and shining small leaves, though the loner branches 

 of the older trees are thornv also, 'riie leaves have also sometimes thorns upon their 

 Hiargiiis, which makes it probablv, m that state, ihe ivgrifolium Jo/io iaiuiore, S(c. of 

 Sloane, v. 2, p. las, t. 188, f. 2. 



3. SPILEKOSPEllMUS. ROUND-S-EEDED. 



Flowers hermaphrodite, "in racemelets; berries roundish, three-celled, pellucid, 

 leaves oblong, serrate, smootli. Ss'. Pr. p. 50. 



Trunk ten or fifteen feet high, with a smooth bark ; branches subdivided, spreading ; 

 leaves alternate, acuminate, unequally serrate, nerved, smooth on both sides, very 

 finely veined ; petioles roundish, smboth ; peduncles axillary, the length of the peti- 

 oles, short, upright, many flowered ; flowers pedicelled, small, green,_or yellowish ; 

 stipules small, acuminate, at the base of the peduncles ; calyxes ovate and cut round 

 at tiie base, permanent, five-cleft ; segments acute, spreading, thickish, deciduous ; 

 petals very minute, placed between the divisions of the calyx, on very short ])edicels, 

 concave ; fjlamentu five, shorter than the calyx ; anthers roundish, three-cornered, 

 covered at the back by the petals ; germ rouiulish, at the bottom of the calyx ; style 

 shorter than the stamens, trifid ; stigmas blunt, contiguous ; berry spherical, some- 

 times three-grooved at the top, the size of a small pepper-corn, placed on the calyx,, 

 pellucid, pale-green, containing from one to three oblong three-cornered seeds. It 

 grows in the more temperate parts of Jamaica, in jnountain coppices ; fiowei-ing ia 

 August and ripening the berries in October. .yu:;. 



4. ELLIPTICUS. OVAI.-LF.AVED. 



jirhorescefis minor foliis ovatis veyiosis, peduncidis innlellulatis, alari- 

 husfnicdbus sphericrs, Browne, p. 172, t. 29, f. 2. 



Flowers hermaphrodite, sub-trigynous, axillary, sub-unibelled ; leaves elliptic, 

 acute, quite entire, somewhat villose underneath. 



This is a shrub becbming in a manner a tree ; the branches are round, alternate, rod- 

 like, often reclming or spreading, covered with a smooth brown bark ; leaves alternate, 

 i>lunt, nerved, and veioed ; nerves approximating ; petioles round, filiform, longish, 



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