IS-^ K OUT us JAMAlCENSia>. ' JA^tAlCV. 



INDICA. INDIAN. 



f'itis, fiuctii miiiorf, rubi'o, accrho. /olio siibrohindo vu'nus hiciniafc, 

 si/h'iis alba lani(<ri)tc iecto. Sloane, y. 2, p. 104, t. l\0, f. 4. 

 S'iJivf^tris, sdimcntis Lett: rtpentibus, , mis .viinoh'ibus 7iigris. 

 Browne, p 178. 

 Leaves cor Jate, toothed, villose beneath ; teiidribraeemiferous... 

 This phtnt has a trunk frequently ns thick as a man's leg, woody, and scndinc:' out 

 Wanches, with liranching tendrils, by which it fastens iiself. to trce^^ Tiie leaves and 

 flowers ver^- nearly reseailile ti)ose of the common grape-vine ; the former have incin~ 

 long footstalks, they are soii, green on the upper side, and .while and downy on tlie 

 under. The fruit, wiiich ripens in Septeniher, is in bunches of small grape^, oi a- 

 purplish colour, which have a lOugh acerb taste, and, it is thought, would make an 

 exoeilent wine imder proper nmnagemenl. It is someiitnes made into tails. This piimt 

 grows wild in most parts of Jamaica, and, when lu.\uriant, which it is in the higher 

 woodlands, ib so full of juice, that a junk of three feet in length will vield near a pint 

 of clear tasteless water ; which often affords great refreshment when no other water is-, 

 near. From this qualitv in the stem it is well known by"the name of nriter-withe ; and 

 it is worthy of remark, that the common gr-npe-vine, if vvouudeil in the spring, also, 

 emits a dear, hnipid, watery, juice. 



Sec Grape-Vine* . 



JAMAICA NETTLE.TREE. . CELTIS. 



Cl. 23, OR, 1. Polijgamia jnonoecia, NaT. OR. Scabridtt'. 



Oen. CHAR. Hermaphrodite caij'x five-parted ; no corolla; stamina five filament?^ 

 with oblong anthers ; pistil an ovate germ, with two styles, and simple stigmas; 

 the pericarp a globular one-celled drupe, containing a roundish nut. The male 

 flowers have a six-parted peiianth, and six stamens ; all the rest as in the henna- 



- pbrodites. Twp species are natives of Jamaica. 



1. MIGRANTHA. 



4^rhorcscens foUis oblongo ovatis iiivsutis et leniter serratis, Jloinbiia^ 

 minimis, ractmis alarihus', Browne, p. 173, t. 12, f. 2, 



This shrubby tree, which is the rhamnus inicrMJitlius of Linneus, seldom rises above. 

 -tr; or twelve feet, and throws out a great number of loose branches. It is frequent ia. 

 Clarendon and about the Ferry, and is known by the name of bastard fustic. It some- 

 times grows to the height of thirty feet The berries are of a deep purple semi-pellu- 

 cid colour, of a sweet and not disagreeable taste, nearly the size of tlie locus-berry. 



2, AMERICANA. AMERlCAtrj 



Leaves oblong-ovate, . obtuse, nerved, smooth above, golden beneath. 

 This nses near twenty feet high, covered with a grey bark, and dividing at top into 

 gtiany biaadies;. leaves nearly four inches long, and two and -a half broad,, rounded at 



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