>(IACAW H OUT US JAMAICENSIS. 4&f 



small ; the receptacle columnar, membranaceous, four-winged ; wings in the 

 angles of the paititions, seed-bearing on each side. One species is a native of 

 Jamaica. 



BEPENS. CREEPING. 



Leaves opposit^, ovate; peduncles solitar}-, axillary; stem creeping. 



This is an annual plant, and the isnardia palustris of Linneus, but by Swartz cleter> 

 jiiined to be a species of this genus. The flowers are axillary, opposite, sessile, anci 

 green. It is frequent in the rivers of Jamaica, with petals, though they are fugaceoua. 



IMacaw-Busii See Turkey BiiiRRiES. 



MACAW.TREE. ^ COCOS. 



Cl. 21, OR. 6. Monoccia he.vandria. Nat. OR. PalmiS. 

 Gen. Ciiar. See Cocoa-Nut Tree, p. 206. 



ACULEATA PRICKLY. 



Pahna t6tn spinosa inetjor, friictit. pruniformi. Sloane, v. 2, p. IIP. 

 Pinnis et caudicc ubiquc. aculcctissimis, fruetu majusculo. BtxjwWE. 

 p. 344'. 

 Aculeate-spiny, trunk fusiform; fronds pinnate ; stripes and spathes spiny. 



The n^reat maoaw-tree has a trunk as thick as the human "body, with a swelling at 

 foot nsino- thirty feet high, with an ash-coloured bark, and very thick set with sharp 

 black prickles, some longer some shorter, placed usually in rings. The pinnas of the 

 fronds are very long, and the wiiole diick set with jirickles. The fruit is as larg2 as a 

 crab-apple ; xmder a green skin it has a thin, sweetish, astringent, pulp, and under 

 that a nut full of white, sweet, edible, kernel. It is common in most savannas in Ja- 

 maica. The wood is of a black colour. Sloane. The fruit is thus described by Gtert- 

 iver : It is globular, flatted a little, about an inch in diameter, terminated by three 

 acuminate, sessile, stigmas, and retaming the six-leaved calyx at the base ; skin thick, 

 coriaceous; pulp fil)rous, succulent, finely fungose, and coriaceous, adhering to the 

 rtit ; which is globular, sublenticular, of a stony substance, thick, one-celled, with 

 three holes on the side, two of which are blind, and the third pervious. Seed singl^ 

 sub-lobular, flattish, or slightly depressed near the hole of the coll, netted all over 

 with arched streaks, of a brown-bay colour. 



The small macaw tree Sloane says grows to the thickness of a man's leg, risino; abotrt 



fifteen feet high, and is in every lUing similar to the large kind. 'Browne says the 



. . O o 2 husks 



