59 H OUT US JA MAI CENSUS. MACQiisih 



Xo Fiiiiiish Xiimc. , JACQUIXIA. 



Cl. ."i, on. \. Pcnt(iinlria monnf^yTtia. Nat. or. Ihimosic, 

 Tills was so named in honour of tlie celebrated Josepli de Jacqiiiii, professor of bo- 

 tuny at Vienna, and author oi' nuuiy splendid works. 



Gkn. char. Calyx a fi\e-leiived periaDth ; leaflets roundish, concave, permanent; 

 corolla oue-i3xnaled ; ^uhe bell-shaped, ventricose, Wiger than the caly.\ ; border 

 ten-cleft; divisions roundish, of \\hi<li the five interior ohcg arc shorter; the 

 stamens arc fixe filaments, awl-rLhaped, arising-.;i''-om the receptacle, with spear- 

 shaped anthers ; the pistil has an ovale germ, stvle the length of the stamens, 

 stigma heatled ; the pericarp is a^roundiiii berr}-, acuminate, one-celled; seed 

 single, roundish, cartilaginous. One species is a native of Jamaica. 



AR'iJUXARIS. BRACELET. 



,'Ariioriiaccifera, laurijolia, fructii corallino rihium iusfar rticonoso, 

 . calyculato, x-cnenato. Sloane, v^-'i, .p. .S:>, t. 190, f. 2. Xyloceste. 

 Fvuiicosum : folhs elliptico otatls, swbtus cincreis ; pcdunculis ra~ 

 mosis, alavibiis. Browne, p. 372. 



Leaves oT^tuse, coriaceous ; fluwej's inx^cemes;: berries four-seeded, or there- 

 abouts. 



'This is a very elegant shrub, seldom -more than four or five feet high. (Sloane saw 

 One tilteen feet high). The trunk nnmd, thicker and knobbed where the branches 

 come out, covered with-an ash-coloured bark; branches four or five from each joint 

 towards the top, in whorls, spreading, stiff', round, grooved, brittle, hoary, sub-di- 

 vided, and forming altogether a^r.eat globular head. Leaves scattered, alternate, pe- 

 tioled, clustered towards.jthernds of the twigs, wedge-shaped, ovate, obtusely mar- 

 gined, quite entire, veinless, smooth, pale underneath, with very minute black dols.- 

 According to Jacquin, they are of different shapes between oblong and roundish, 

 sometimes blunt, sometimes emarginate, but always with a little rigid point, narrow- 

 ing into a ver}' short petiole, and sometimes rolled back at the sides. Racemes ter- 

 minating, commonly- shorter than -the leaves, about two inches long, solitary, erect, 

 loose, simple, seven -ffowered or thereabouts; peduncles scattered, spreading, one- 

 flowered; flowers small, stiffish, white, smelling like jasmine, and retaining their 

 sweet scent several days. Tube of the corolla narrower at the base, dilated above ; the 

 five outer segments are sjireading and oblong, the five inner inserted into the throat 

 between the outer ones, roundish, crenulatc, erect. Filaments from the base of the 

 corolla, shorter than the tube ; anthers ovate, white ; germ superior ; style short, 

 permanent; stigma blunt, purple; berry roundish, smooth ; the size of a large pea, 

 of a reddish orange-colonr, .and containing .an orange-coloured pulp ; seeds four, 

 sometimes, but seklom, three or five, ovate, smooth, shining, cartilaginous, brownish 

 yellow. The berries are eaten by small birds, and the seeds are strung for bracelets by 

 the Caribs, whence the French name bois hracelels, and the trivial n-dme arniillaris. 

 The Spaniards. call it iarAajco or we?fcn(Wi. Native of Jamaica on calcareous rock?,' 

 on the coast; flowering in February and March. ^lartyifs Dkiionary. Sloane, from 

 the resemblance of the berries .to currants, called Jhis plajit cunrant-trce. 



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