lOxcewoo* HORTtrs JAMAlCENSIS. -A'^h 



2. TlNIFOl,IA. TlNl'S-LEAVED. 



Racenies compound, erect; flowers terminating, crowded; leaves oblonj. 

 This rises with a woody stalk to the height of twenty feet, dividing into many 

 tranches, which are covered with a grey rough bark ; at the extremity of the branches 

 are produced the peduncles, which are unequal in length, ami divide into several 

 smaller, each sustaining a cluster of small white flowers, which are collected into a head 

 cr small umbel, having one general involucre; they are male and hermaphrodite on 

 different trees. The latter are succeeded by oval berries, not quite so large as those 

 of the coramon bay. The leaves are about two inches long, and one inch broad, 

 sounded at the top and entire, on very short footstalks. 



3. OCCIDENTAL13. WESTERN. 



Peduncles axillarj-; flowers terminating, in unibellets, dioecious j leaves ahep- 

 nate, lanceolate, smooth, Sw. 



No English Name. LACISTEMA. 



Cl. 1, OR. 2. Moiiandria digTjnia. Nat. OR. 

 ^EN. CHAR. Calyx a common ament, imbricated on all sides, columnar ; scales one- 

 flowered, ovate, concave; two small linear sc|uamules bemg placed at the sides 

 beneath the corolla within the scale ; corolla one-petaled, four-paited, no tube; 

 divisions lanceolate, sharp, sulj-erect ; nectary one- leafed, rotate, entire, smaller 

 than the corolla, concave ; the stamens are single filaments, situated in tiie middle 

 of the nectary with the germ, uprighi, incurved above the middle over the germ, 

 biiid at the top ; anthers minute, roundish; the pistil has a globose germ two 

 very short styles, recurved; siigmas simple ; the pericarp is a footstalked berry, 

 ob-ovate, oblong, one-celled; seed single, solitary. There is only oue 'species^ 

 which was discovered in this island by Swartz. 



MYRICOIDES.. MYRICA-LIKE. 



Stem arborescent ; branches round,, somewhat knotty, ash-coloured, naked, smooth- 

 !sh, spreading, branched ; branchlets greenish, leaty, smooth, somewhat wrinkled, 

 with very minute transverse veins, quite entire, four inches long, spreading, with a 

 longitudinal waving nerve ; petioles short, flattish, channelled. Spikes only two or 

 three lines in length, aggregate, round, straight, sessile, partly from the ai.ils of the' 

 leaves, partly lateral from the scars of the braoches.^ .Sa;. 



LANCEWOOD. uvaria. 



Cl. 13, OR. 7. Polyandria polygyn'ict. NaT. or. Coadunafx. 

 This has received its generic name from the figure of the fruit, being like a bunch 

 of grapes. 



Gen. char. Calyx a three-leaved perianth, flat; leaflets ovate, acute, permanent; 

 the corolla has six petals, lanceolate, sessile, spreading, longer than the calyx -^ 



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