e^WA>5li KORTUS JAMArCENSIS. ?V9 



-aftiil gelatinous substance, like the yolk of an egg, mixeii with very fine fibres, adhere 

 ing tenaciously to the seed, and is very agreeal)ie to the taste. It flowers in April and 

 May, and the fruit is in' perfection abou-t August. One tree bears hermalphrodite 

 flowers, and another male only, which therefore never produces any fruit. Of the last 

 kind is the large and beautiful tree fiow growii.g opposite the secretary's office, in 

 Spanish Town, which is at present nearly forty feet higii, having a trunk two feet and 

 a half in diameter, and about twenty-one yeai-s old. Browne says the first of these 

 trees was brought to Jamaica from Surinam, by one Guaf, a Jew. It has since been 

 generally propagated, and thriven remarkably well in the lowlands ; and a great num- 

 ber have been ptant-ed in the towns, where they not only afford ornament, but, from 

 their thick foliage, a very agreeable shade. , This tree sheds its leaves annually, if! tha 

 spring, when the new leaves and blossoms make their appearance together 5 and, ia 

 rainy weather, the progress of its vegetation is so rapid that the new leaves are coni" 

 pletely budded and unfolded in the short space of forty-eight hours, the old fohage, 

 yet in a green state, which ornamented the tree only yesterday, is forced off and strewed 

 withering on tl] ground. When the blossoms open thej- diffuse their agreo-ibie fra- 

 grance to a very considerable distance, and attract towards them, during that time, 

 swarms of bees and humming birds to feed upon their honey. It has been observed 

 that these trees, when young, bear blossoms two or three years without being succeeded 

 by any fruit; and it is also remarkable that the leaves of old trees lose the foliated mar- 

 gin upon the coinaiou middle nb, which is only to be seen in the leaves of the young 

 ones. 



See Sea Side Plum. 



t?EE,MANpER. TEUCRIUM. 



Cl. H, or. 1. Didynamia gymvospermia. Nat. or. VeriiciUatoe. 



This was so named from Teacer, son of Scamander, and father in law of Dardanu-j 



?Sing of Troy. 



-Gen. char. ^Calyx a one-leafed half five-cleft perianth ; corolla one-petaled, rin- 



gent, upper lip two-parted, beyond the base, divaricating where the stamens are ; 



stamens four filaments, with small anthers ; the pistil ha.s a four- parted germ, a. 



"filiform style, and two slender stigmas ; there is no pericarp ; calyx unchanged, 



fostering the seeds at the bottonj, which are four, roundish. One species is a \vi.< 



tive of Jamaica, 



INFLATUM. INFLATED. 



Subhirmtinn ; foUis ovatis., denfalo serrad's ; spicis strictiorilus, cras-^ 

 sis terminalibiis. Browne, p. 257. 



Xeaves oblong-acuminate, unequally serrate, pubescent ; spikes sessile, ter 

 minating ; calj'xes inflated, villose. 



?his is called thick spiked or hairi/ germander. Browne says it is pretty frequent in 

 the lower parts of St. Mary's, where it grows very luxuriantly, though it seldom rises 

 above two feet and a half in height. The flower-cup is a little inflated, and the spikes 

 tifi^, straight, and thick. 



- " See Sea Side Gekmandeb. 



