38 H0RTU3 JAMAICENSIS. JEKUSALEas 



2. ALT3.^. WHITE. 



Nei'inm arhorcum altissimum, folio angitsfo, fare albo. Sloane, v 

 2, p. 62. Artwvfscens raceun's tcnuijiah'bus pcdiaicidis hngis jiudis 

 incidentihus. Browne, p. 181. 



This can hardly be called a species, for in no respect does it differ from the other 

 feiit in the colour of the corolla. The flowers grow in a similar manner, iind have an 

 asreealile smell ; the leaves are exactly the same, and produced in the same manner; 

 and there is no possibility of distinguishing; the two trees but by the colour of tlie, 

 flower. 



vJERUSALEM TH^RN. t PARKIN.SONIA. 



Cl. 10, OR. 1. Pentandria mono^^ijnia. Nat. or. Lomentacete. 



This was so named in memory of John Parkinson, apothecary of London, author, of 

 some botanical werks. 



Gen. char. Calyx aone-ieafed perianth, at thCtbase bpJlTtsaaped, fiattigh, perma- 

 nent; border live-parted; segments lanceolate-o\ ate, acute, coloured, reflex, 

 almost equal, deciduous; the corolla lias five petals with claws, almost equal, 

 spreading very much, ovate; the lowest kidney-form, claw upright, very .long ; 

 the stamens are ten filaments, awl. shaped, villose below, declined; anthers ob- 

 Jpng, incumbeKt, the pistil has a round, long, declined, germ; stjde filiform, 

 rising the length of the stamens ; stigma blunt ; the pericarp is a very long round 

 legume, swelling over i he seeds^ like a necklace, acuminate; seeds several, one 

 to each joint of the Jc^ume, oblong,, sub-cyliudric, blunt. .There is only one 

 species. 



, ACULEATA. -PRICKLY. 



Aculcafa, foliaiis minutissiinis, pinnatis, penna longiori compressa 

 Browne, p. 222. 



This is a smalLtree, with a trunk ten or twelve feet high, nnarmedj even ; branches 

 long, sub-divided, 'fiexuose, prickly, strict. Prickles two opposite, at the sides of 



. the petioles, one. between them three times as long as the others, awl-shaped, upright. 

 Leaves alternate, in.fours from the same bud, pinnate, very long, linear. General 

 petioles linear, thicker at the base, flat, somewhat convex, spreading, very smooth ; 

 leaflets extremely small, on very short petioles, ovate, smooth. Racemes terminatmg 

 and axillary, solitary, shorter than the leaves, erect, (eight or ten) many-flowered ; 

 flowers alternate, scattered, yellow, on long peduncles ; the largest petal as it were 

 pedicelled, roundish, with blood-red streaks at the base; all the petals waved and 

 curled; filaments shorter by half than the petals, equal; anthers purple ; style ^hortJ 

 awl-shaped, a little ascending ; legume compressed a little ; seeds brown, smooth. 



..S'rt". The wood is white, leaves shinrng, racemes of flowers loose, simple, beautiful, 

 and smelling ver}' sweet. It is worth notice, that the leaflets or lobes drop from i\yi 



. middle ribs, leaving them bare ; and that the flower spikes, depending from the tree, 

 cause the standard-like petal to be lowest, which would be reversed were the spikfs 

 upright. The peviantli has its base permanent, forming a kind of nectarium, but the 



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