FRENCH HOUTUS JAMAICENSia SC;^ 



IjcriTiaphrodites in the rentre. The plant is spreading and sLmtler, and seldom riiCj 

 above eighleen or twenty incliCs in liei^lit- iSrozine-. <, 



Two species of the tagetcs or ^^frican mangold, the patula and erecfa, were intro- . 

 dnc.'=4k'ng age, and have become very common, ornaiTients in Jamaica gardens; they^ 

 k;;"/.' run rit,:) : ^r"-;..! manv varit;ties in colour, viz. pi.io yellow, dtx^p yellow^ orange 

 coli>ur ; iii'iQ with :.ingle, double, and fistuions flowers... 



FRENCH OAK.- BTGXONIA. 



Cr.. 1-i, OR. 2. Didynaiiv'a angiospermi''. .- N.iT. or. Fersomiar^'- 

 Ttlis was so named in honour of Abbe Bignon, librarian to Louis XIV. 

 Ges. chak. Calyx a one-leafed perianth, erect, cup form, five-cleft ; corolla mo 

 nopetaitras, campanulate ; tiiroat, bed-form, five-cleft, ventricose beneath, bor- 

 der five parted; the stamens are four subulate fjlaments, shorter than the corolla, 

 two longer than the other:, ; anther.s reflex, qblong, as it wer-e doubled; the pistil 

 has an oblong germ, z filitorm style^ and capitate stigma; the pericarp is a two- 

 cellett siiiqae, t\vo-vaive:l; partition membranaceous, parallel, thickened- at ta 

 sutnres; seeds manv, imbrn ate, compres.^c d, mensbrane-vvingcd on both sides. 

 Four species are, natives of Jamaica, the Ibllcwing, and the leiuoxyhn, or white* 

 wood. 



T. L0NGISSI5IA; lONG. 



Ari'T-mfoliiji Tjatis xtrtxillito-tirnatlsj siliqiia gradli longissime.-^ 

 Browne, p. 264. 

 Leaves simple, oblong, acuminate; stem erect; seeds woolly. 

 This is an elegant upright tree, forty feet high, and upwards. Leaves quite entirPj 

 T-'aved, shmmg, opposite or ternate, two inches long, on a slender petiole, an inch in. 

 }ength, mostly at the ends of the twigs ; racemes terminating, panicled, weak, witli. 

 about forty flowers, smelling sweet, whitish, with two fertile and three i>arren stamens. 

 Siliqucs very. slender, roundish, t\\o feet long, frequently covering the whole head o' 

 the tree : seeds linear, acuminate at both ends, clothed with wool. Jacquin. 



Tills beautiful tree is now cultivated in many parts-of .lain-aica, especially in the low- 

 lands and savannas, where it seems to thriv'e I'ery luxuriantly. It grows to a coiisider- 

 ablesize, and is generally looked upon as an excellent timber tree. Its numerous 

 flowers and slender siliques add a peculiar grace to its growth. Brozane. 



It is known in Jamaica by the name of French oaji ; the French call it c/iee >ioir.-^ 

 The.se trees are also known by the name of trumpet Jiowcr. There is anotiicr tree 

 fom-'times called French oak, the olive bark^ which is afterwards described ijnder that 



Z. STANS. STANDIKO. 



^.ocynoaffuic Gelseminwn Tndi'cum Itedemceiim frufie'-'m'm-mimix,^^ 

 Sloane, v. 2, p. 63. F/uticcsa, Joliis pinnaiis scrrata ovatii, /lo- 

 rilnis luteis. Browne, p. 264. 

 Leaves pinnate, kaflcte serrate ; stem erect) firm i flowers racenied. 



