a*tAPF.B'. IIORTUS JAMAICENSia 5\% 



The following' exotic species have been introduced : 1, The a?h'i, nv white rmilherry. 

 tree, a native of China, which thrives very well iii Jnaiaica, but, .i^e tlis following 

 species, seidom produces much fi uit. This tree is principallv cultivated for its leaves 

 as food for silk-Morais, and perhaps those of the f'istic would answer equally well. 

 2, The 7'ubra, or red mulberry tree, a native of Virginia, also cuitivatei as food for 

 S!ik-worms. 3, Nigra, the black n.iilberrv, a native of Pi^rsia, waiiri is a tr^e oflavger 

 size than the white, havin j; the fruit of a dark blackish-red colour, of which a plcasaiii^ 

 wine is made. 4, Papi/nfertt, or paper inulberry, a native of Japan and the South 

 Sea islands. In Japan a kind of paper is made of its bark; by a process which is dcr 

 scribed at ;ome length by Koe npfer. Cloth is also made of its bark ia OtaheiUj as- 

 well as of that of the bread-fruit tree. 



GAhAcriA.See Blue Pea Flower^ 



GALAPEE OR ANGELICA TREE. ARALTA.' 



Cl. 5, Qii. 5. Pentandr'a peiitagijnia, Nat. or. Hederacex, 



<&EN. cmR. Galy X involucre, very small, of a globular umbellule ; perianth five 

 toorhed, very smuH, superior; the corolla has five petals, ovate, acute, sessiioj, 

 reriex ; the stamens are five filaments, subulate, the length of the corolla, with 

 roundish anthers; the pistil has a roundish germ, inferior; styles very snort, 

 permanent ; stigmas simple ; the pericarp is a roundish striated berr,-, crowned^.- 

 *e-ceiled J seeds soiuary, iiird, oblong. Three species are natives of Jamaica. 



I. ARBOREA. TREE. 



Lain- if olia arbor /{ore tetrapetalo, friicfii racemnso rofundo cannuIatO' 

 eLcoronato. Sloane, v. '2, p. -0, t. 16$, f 2. Jrborcafoliis niti- . 

 dis oblongo-ovatis, iimbellala.va, radiis singulis glandidctnotaUs.^ 

 Browne, p. 189. 

 Stem arhoreous ; leaves siini)le ; raj's of the general umbel with a singfe gland.. 



This tree seldom grows above fourteen or fifteen feet in height, with straight 

 branches, and moderately large leaves, which come out at the ends of the twigs without 

 order, on siiort footstalks ; they are narrow at the lieginniug, and augmenting to the 

 top, where they are blunt and round ; they are smooth, shining, aiul thick. The tops 

 of tlie Ijranches areadornel with a great 'lumber of flowers, disposed in an umheliated 

 but irregular order, having only four potais, oblong, of a pale yellow colour ; wjiich 

 MG succeeded by many small wliitis-h succulent berries, the small umbels )iaving eacli. 



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