144 HORTUS JAMAICENSIS. camphiM 



1. FERRUGIxNEA. IRON, 



Leaves broad lanceolate, senate, somewhat rugged underneath ; cymes ter- 

 minating and axillary. S':c'. Pr. p 31. 



2. RETICULATA. NETTED. 



Leaves elliptic lanceolate, sub-serrate, wrinkled ; tomentose hoary underneath. 



CALTROPS. 'TRIBULUS. 



Cl. 10, OR. l.-~Decandria monogym'a. Nat. or. Gruinales. 



This is so named from having three spikes to the fruit. 



Gen. char. Cal^x a five-parted acute perianth, a little shorter than the corolla; 

 corolla five-petailed, oblong-obtuse, spreading ; the stamina are avvi-sliaped fila- 

 ments, small, with simple anthers ; the pistil has an oblong germ, length of tlie 

 stamens, no st^de, stigma headed ; pericaq:) roundish, prickly, of five to ten cap- 

 sules, gibbous on one side, often armed with three ur four dagger points, angular 

 ,u the other, converging, with transverse cells ; seeds many, turbinate, oblong. 



MAXIMUS. GREAT. 



iTribuJus ferrestris major, flore maxhno odordfo. Sloane, v. I, p. 

 209, t. 132, f. I. Foliis senispimiatis, e.itvmis majoribus, floribus 

 singuhu'ibus. Browne, p. 220, t. 21, f. 3. 



Leaves about four j^aired ; outer leaflets longer ; pericarps ten-seeded, awnless. 



This has pretty thick, compressed, channelled, succulent, brittle, stalks, which 

 trail upon the ground, near two feet long, shooting on every side from the top of the 

 root as from a centre : the leaves pinnate, opposite, commonly three or four pairs of 

 smooth sessile leaflets, the furthermost pair the largest. The flowers come out towards 

 the ends of the branches, of a pale orange or yellow colour, having an agreeable odour, 

 and are succeeded by roundish prickly fruit, ending in a long jjoint. It grows in all 

 pastures of Jam.aica, and is frequently gathered with other fodder plants, and fed upon 

 indiscriminately by all sorts of cattle. Sloane says a salve made of this herb with suet, 

 .is good for Ihe ringworm. 



See Turkey Blossom. 



CAMPHIRE TREE. L AURU.S!. 



Cl. 9, OR. \.^-Enneandria monogynk. Nat. or. Hoioracea, 

 GgN. CHAB. See Avocado pear, p. 37. 



CAMPHORA. CAMPHIRE. 



Leaves triple nerved, lanceolate-ovate. 

 The camphire tree is very near akin to the cinnamon tree, from which it differs irt. 

 Jiie leaves ; those of the latter having three ribs running longitudinally from the foot- 

 stalk 



