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This shnil) \s a fathom in height. Leaves alternate, sprefeitllnij, rounded and oljliqiie 

 St uie base, havjiis;- a short point at the end, nerved and veined, tua nerves beneath 

 t iTuginous; petiijies nmi) 1, short, viUose ; pedunc-les axiihay, solitarv, rising, veri^ 

 6iicjn;7 one-flowered ; tiowers bigpish, white. This is certainiy a different' species 

 t'/jca cae pubiscens. It is a native of tne tnountains and flowers la the spring. 



5. GLABRATA. SMOOTH. 



Flowers ten-stamened ; leaves ovate-lanceolate, quite entir?, shining; pedmi- 

 cies axillary, one-dowered. Sw. Pr. p. G8. 

 This is a small true, with a Lruiik ten or twelve i'eet high, smooth, unarmed. Leaves 

 alternate, spreading horiiiontaily, nerved and veined, smooth on both suies,^ shmmg 

 above, blight green, wren pores so small as to be scarcely visible ; petioles siaornsn ; 

 peduncles m genera, snorter than the peiioies and thicker, axiiiary, soiuary, aiul one- 

 iiovvtred ; H jwors biggish and white. Two small acute stipules at the ba.iC <j1 the pe- 

 tiunctes. All the species are propagated by seeds. 



Besides the above native species, the rosea^ a native of St. Domingo, has al;o been 

 iniroduied. Ii is a vcrv oni; mental plant, producing fine red tiowcrs in abundance 

 a.o ig its Hexile pendent brandies ; and is supposed to be the 'auuloiua idinijolio j^or, 

 ViJSta of Pmuiier. Tliere is. also a wiute variety of tins in liie llortus Eastensis, 



Ci.ovE Strife See Primrose- Willow. 



COB NUT. OMPHALEA. 



Cl. 21, OR. 8. Monoecia wonadelphia. Nat. or. Tn'cocc/e. 

 Gf.N. char. Male calyx a four or five leaved jierianth, spreading ; leaflets two, op 

 posite, larger, ovate, convex, coloured: no corolla; nectary four glands, or a 

 fleshy ring'encircling the germ ; the stamen one columnar filament, tliick, short; 

 anthers two, oblong, u^cumbent, connate at top, poUiniferous at the edge; or 

 one, plano-convex, trifid. The female flowers in the same raceme : calyx a five- 

 leave.i periantli ; leaflets three, larger, ovate, encircling die germ ; there is na 

 corolla ; the pistil has an ovate germ, no style, stigma trifid : the pericarp is an 

 cblong roundish capsule, fleshy, bluntly triangular, three-celled, three-valved : 

 the seeds are solitary nuts, ovate, hard. Four species are ihaigenous to this 

 island. ' 



1. NUCIFERA. KUT.BEARIVG. 



Fo/ii's ohnvatis glabris, ad basim biglandulis ; florihiis triandrit's.-^ 

 Browne, p. 335, t. 22, f 4 

 Racemes compound, leafy, terminating ; leaves scattered, oblong, very smoodij 

 bio-landii.ar at the base ; stem arboreous. 



"TThis tree frequently rises to the height of thirty or forty feet, or more, with a straight 



tem better than a foot in dia neter, having a brownish bark with white spots. It grows 



isrv comu*only in Jamaica. The branches bend down and are waited and sub-divided. 



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