i^-^ IIORTUS JAMAICENSIS. - cu^nrr 



Tiiis tree, v.Iiich is called the brcud.lenved cherry, also rises to a coniklerable heiglit, 

 from forty lo fifty feet, but is sslJom above iweive or; 'teen ifiches in cliiiint'ter, shoot- 

 ing by a straij^iit trunk. The leaves are ii foot aatl a ? : lout;, verj lar^>e and rougii ; 

 the berries are the same size as those of the du,ni,ny. Brovvae sa\s they are wnite, 

 F'oime d^seribea them of a rciklish coloiir, owing povbaps to their dirteriint degrees ut 

 ripeness. The leaves are of a fresh green colour, Having one iaroe roiodle iib, aiid se- 

 Teral transverse ones, staiiding onahree-r^uartersof an inch footstalks. Tiiis tree gn)vvs 

 ciiiefly in the lower woods, and Sioane found it on the banks of the Rio Cobre. Tba 

 heart is of ayeliovviah colouv.aud a pretty good timbervvood. SLoanc ifi Brojisne. 



3. SEBKSTENA. 



CaryophyUus spnrws inodonis. folio suhrohindo scahro, flore race'moso 

 heapetaloide coccineo speciDssisshno. J^Ioane, v.' 2, [>. -^0, t. 164, 

 I'oliis dnipliofibus hiriis Ovatis, tubo Jipris suba-^uaii. JBrowue, 



p. 202. '- ' ' 



Leaves oblon^-ovate, repand, sca1)ron?. 



This rises, by seTerai stems, eight or nine feet high, having a clay-coloured hark. 

 Tlie leaves grow towards the tops of the brandies, standing on round inch-long' foot- 

 stalks, very thick setby one another. Tliey are airnost round, four inc-hes iong, and 

 three broad, very harsh to the tout h, and of a very dark green colour ; the ffowers stand 

 each in a long- rough calyx on the branches ends on their footstalks, umbel fashion.- fcce 

 of a delicate scarlet colour, ir.any and iarire, consistiug "of a long undivided tubutus^ 

 something like a clove, and a broail aiargin, cbvtded.iiito sii sections, all stauumg la 

 a dark brovm capsule. Sioane. 



This- bush V sbrub gro-Ws on the banks abovethe beach lying betvveen the small lagortj 

 -eastward, of Kingston and Captain Cornish's ; and is said to grow in great abiuioa'ca 

 ou those little islands about Old Harbour, The limb of the corolla has six segare/its, 

 and there are six stamens. Ii seldom rises above seven -or eight feet above the root, 

 and is furnished v'ith rough oval leaves, and adorned witn large bunches of fine scarlet 

 'flowers, (hence the name oi scarlet cordla,j the most beautiful andagTeeable of any' E 

 have yet observed in America ; but the form of them is quite diiTerent from tijat deii- 

 neated by Plumier, vviierein the tube swells above the cup, and consequently must ba 

 considered'as a different tspecies. This would make a most agreeable tiowering shrub 

 ina garden or a fore.st ; and maj' probably be useful, could it be brought to bear per , 

 feet fruit, which it hardly evar does in the state I liave obsened it. Browne. 



TkTi'ier snys that a small piece of the wooa of this species, put into a pan of lighted 

 coals. ^ends forth a most igreeible odour, and periunes a v\hcle bouse. 7he irutt, he 

 adds, is recounted cooling and moistening, useful against sharp thin defiuxiuns upoa 

 the lungs, helpingcoughs and catarrhs, and taking otf the tieat of urine. 



The effoii', a variety of the cordia sebesttna, was brought to this island in his Majes- 

 ty's ship Providence, and is said to. be a good dye wood. 



4. MICRAKTHUS. 



Leaves elliptic, lanceolate, quite entire, membranaceousj veined ; raccmeji 

 cocipouud, iai. S'm. 



5. EXUPTICA, 



