iAVENDER IIORTU3 JAMAICENSiS. *'y 



parts of the smaller branches, one at a place, between the leavasj not axillary. ,B(;fh. 

 these species are considered good timber, especially where elasticity i.-; required'; bat 

 they seldom ijrovv taany considerable size. They are used for makina; shafts for light 

 carriages. The negroes make lances of the wood, whence the name ; and from its 

 toughness k makes good rods. Pigeons feed on the fruit. 



No English Name. LAUGERIA. 



Cl. 5, OR. 1 Pentandna monogynia. NaT. or. Rubiacea. 



This was so named from Robert Laugier, professor of chemistry and botany at 

 Vienna. 



Gen. char Calyx a one-leafed perianth, tubular, superior, v/ith unequal mouth, 

 small, deciduous ; corolla one-petaled, salver-form, tube very long, border five- 

 cleft, divisions ob-ovate; the stamens are five very shortfitaments, with linear 

 anthers, long, beneath the throat; the pistil has a sub-ovate inferior germ, a fili- 

 form style, rather longer than the tube, and a headed stigma ; the pericarp is a 

 roundish drupe, umbilicateil with a point ; seed a two or three-celled farrowed 

 nut. Two species were discovered in Jamaica by Swartz. 



1. LUCID A. SHINJNG. 



Leaves oblong, blunt, entire, membranaceous, shining; racemes dichotomous; 

 drupes with two-celled nuts. 



Branches round, smooth, covered with an ash-coloured bark, scarred at top with the 

 fallen leaves. Leaves in clusters at the ends of the branchlets, petioled, opposite, two 

 or three inches long, very smooth and even, nerved, quite entire; racemes from the 

 axils of the terminating leaves, solitary, opposite, the length of the leaves, bifid, reflex 

 at the tip, a\mo&x. an '\n tournefortia. Flowers on short pedicels, distant, all directed 

 the same way, on the inner side of the peduncles; calyxes small, smooth, , five-cleft j 

 corolla smooth. Fahl. 



S. TOME^TOSA. DOWNY. 



I Leaves ovate-acute, entire, tomentose underneath; racemes dichotomous; 



drupes with a two- celled a-ut. Sw. 



Laurel, West Indl-^ ^ff West India Laurel. . 

 Laurll Trees See Bay Trees. 



LAVENDER. LAVENDULA. 



Cl. 14, OR. \.^~Didynamia gymnospermia. Nat. o^.Verticillata. 

 Gen. CHAR. Calyx a one-leafed perianth, ovate, mouth obscurely toothed, short, 

 permanent, supported by a bracte; corolla onc-petaled, rmgent, resupine ; sta- 

 mens within the tube ; anthers small ; the pistji has a four-parted germ, a filiforrn 



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