.vf*5* IIORTUS JAMAICJENSia. LOCWQosi^ 



LOFTY-GRAS$, FUIREXA. 



i.. 3, OR. 1. Tn\i)uln\T morinf^/nia. "i^AT.oii.Culaynari.'e. 

 So named m merooiy of George Fuireu^ a leaj'ned Dane. 



Gen. ciiAii. Calyx aa imbricate anient, with awned scales ; corolla three pclaK 

 shaped, oU-cordatc, glumes, ending in a tendril ; stanieni tlu'ce Iniear iiiamcnts, 

 villi linear anthers ; the ))istil has a three-coniered germ, a fdiforin stvle, and two 

 revolnle stigmas ; no pericarp, excejit the withered corolla, iiKJosing the seed; 

 seed tlirec-c.(;rnc-red, naked, \\ith(;ut uny villoiie haii's. There is only one species, 

 Vi native of Jauiaica. 



>ANICULATA, PANICLF.D. 



This is called lflij-grass on account of its height; the leaves are on the stem,, with 

 lioose, pitcher-shaped, hairy, sheaths; panicles terminating and axdlaiy, composed 

 ofcylindric, scain-ous, sjiikelets ; which are oblong, about throe lines in length, con- 

 glomerate, blackish, imbricate, with ob-ovate, concave, rigid, scales, having three- 

 iecls, tinitiug at top into an awn.. It has the appearance of a. scirpus. 



IX)GWOOD on CAMPKACHY-WOOD. H^MATOXYLUM. 



Cl. 10, on. 1. J)ecandria vionosynia. Nat. OR.Lomentacae. 



Tliis, generic name is derived from two Greek words signifying blood ^ind wood, from, 

 the colour-'of its wood. 



Gen. char. Calyx a one-leafed perianth, coloiwed ; tube very shorb, pitcher- 

 shaped, iieshj', permanent ; border tive-parted, spreading, deciduous; paits 

 oblong, blunt ; the four upper ones equal, the lov.est a little longer than the rest; 

 the corolla has five petals, ianct-olatc, broadest at the top, blunt, veined, spread- 

 ing, nearly equal, inserted into tlie caiyx, and longer than its divisions; the 

 stamens ten subulate filaments, hairy at bottom en- the inside, -upright,. unt(jual, 

 scarcely longer than the corolla, inserted into the calyx ; with oval small anthers; 

 the pistil has an oblong, sabre-sliaped, compressed, germ, a capillary style, l)entr 

 at the tij"), longer than the stamens, and a fiwinel-shaped stigma ; the pericarp is 

 a lanceolate legume, flat, blunt, one-celled, edged on each side with a thickish 

 -suture that does not open, o':iening by the bursting of the valves in the middle 

 longitudinally, and dividing into two .unequal, lioat-shaped, parts; seeds few, 

 oblong, compressed, furrowed, fixed to one of the sutures. There is only one 

 .species. 



CAMPECIIIANl'M, CAM*>EACHV. 



Lignum Campechianum, species i;uerdem Brasil. Sloane, v. 2, p-. 

 183, t, 231, f., 1, 2. Spiiiosion, foliolis pinuatis, raccniis tennina- 

 libus. Browne, p. 221. 



This tree grows naturally in the Bay of Campeaciiy, at Honduras, and oilier part* oT 

 ihe Spanish AVcst Indies, where it rises from sixteen to twenty-four feet high. The 

 stems are generally crooked, and very defprmed, and seldom thicker than a man's 

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