Calabash IIORTUS JAiMAICPNSIS. 133) 



or tendrils. The first pair of the wings is the least, and consist of four pair of lobes, 

 but the second or last are made up of hve. Tlie lubes upon the {irst pair are less than 

 those placed upon the second. The lobes are of a lunated form ; the first pair the least 

 increasing to the last, which is the largest and about two inches long, their margins re- 

 pandous, their extremities emargiiiated. One side of the leaf runs further downward 

 than the other ; the lobes are smooth, shining, and of an elegant Uvely green on the 

 upper side, but of a whitish green below, and not shining. The middle rib is promi- 

 nent on both sides, but somewhat more beneath ; the side veins are delicate, jjarallel, 

 und arched ou the margins ; they are produced ui no certain order, by pairs, or alter- 

 nate; the lobes have tlie same virtue of collapsing together on a change of the atmos- 

 phere as other piants^of this kind." 



,S^ Cashaw East India Ebony Gum Araiuc In<3a Trfe Nephritic -Tree, 

 -Poponax Sensitive Plant \Vild Tamarind. 



Caiacico See Spurges. 



CALABASH TREE. CRESCENTIA. 



Ci.. 14, OR. 2. Didijnamia angiospermia. Nat. OR. Putaminccv. 



This was named in honour of Pietro Crescentio, an Italian writer on agriculture. 



Gen. CHAR. Calyx a one-leafed perianth, two-parted, short, deciduous; divisions 

 roundish, concave, obtuse, equal; corolla oe-peralled, unequal; tube gibbous, 

 crooked, torulose ; border erect, five-cleft ; divisions unequal, tooth-sinuated ; 

 the stamina are four filaments, subulate, length of the corolla, spreading, two ai 

 little shorter,; anthers incumbent, obtuse, twin ; the pistil has a pedicelled ovate 

 germ ; filiform style the length of the corolla ; stigma headed ; pericarp an oval, 

 hard, one-celled berry ; seeds very many, sub-cordate, nestling, two celled. 

 There are two species, both natives of Jamaica. 



cujeta. 



At'hor cticurbitifera americana, folio sabrotundo. Sloane, v. 2, p. 172. 

 Arborescens ; foli.is conjertis oh-ovato-oblongis, basi angmtioribus ; 

 Jructu sphcerico maxivio. Browne, p. 265. 



LeaveS' wedge-lanceolate, crowded. 

 This tree is called narrow -leafed calabash, which seldom rises higher than twenty 

 feet, and is easily distinguished from all others by its peculiar appearance. It divides 

 at top into very long, thick, scarcely sub^divided branches, stretching ouX almost hori- 

 zontally, adorned with leaves disposed in bundles or tufts scatteringly at irregular dis- 

 tances. Ttre wood is light, tough, and pliant. The bark is unequal and ash-coloured 

 or whitish. Tiie leaves are uncertain in their number from tlie same knot or tubercle ; 

 tfiey are oblong, attenuated at the base, on very short petioles, acute, entire, shining, 

 veined, bright green, four or five inches long. Peduncles one-flowered, solitary, 

 scattered over the older branches, and frequently on the trunk itself, three inches above 

 the ground ; flowers large, sometimes entirely green, but often differently variegated 

 -with purple, red, and yellow j it does not wither, but becomes putrid, and in that 



T 9 state 



