>e ' nOKTUS JAMAICENS1&. myginba 



maica, wliere it is called mi(s/c-':tnfidi on account of the smell of fverv- part cf the plant, 

 uheii lubbecl. It flo\vci'.s in May.-^ Aw. The bark is reddish-brown ; the wood liard, 

 whitCj and aroinatK". - it ijtevv in the inland parts Hloanc. 



2. SPONDIOIDES. SFO>Dl.>S-LIKE. 



-Evomjmus, caud:ce ',iun ramoso, folo alulo, fructa rotunch fripyraw. 

 Siouuc, V. 'J, p. 1U3, t. 210, f. '2, 3. 



Leaves unecnially pinnate, sub-hiraute ; pinnas numerous, the lower ones 

 , larger ; racenies axiilai^', 



Tiis tiLC has several stems as thiilt as one's ami, hy which it rises twenty feet,^\vit]i 

 Out branches, covered wjih a reddish -brown h-M-k.-^Sluutte. Leaves sni(joHi,' or some- 

 what hairv, a foot long, scattered alternately at the ends of the branches ; leaflt-ts about 

 ten on each side, the end one someLinics wanting, lanceo!ate-o^atc, bluntly acunrunate, 

 quite entire, pctioled, two inches long, the iiuennediate ones, gradually larger. Ra- 

 cemes axillary, solitary, three inches long whilst in flower, -but often lengthenin"- to 

 half a foot when fruiting,; peduncles simple or branched; flowers inodorous, small, 

 lii)out tnirty in a raceme; caiyx half five-clelt, spreading, flat, very small; petals 

 wliiush, spreading; filaments hairy internally; germ villose, style thick; capsule 

 brortiiislL, three-grooved; seeda in the larger fruit sometimes two, in the same cell, 

 lyuig one upon ttie other, or side by side. Jacqum. Acc(3rding to Sloane the leaflets 

 are at au inch distant, pointed at both ends, smooth; dark green, on pedicels an eighth 

 Oi an inch long. Fruit round, first green, then purplish, when ripe as big as a great 

 garaen pea, breaking into three menibranes, expanding themselves, eacli having a 

 crcbi or rising in the miildle, and shewing three almost triangular distmct kernels, co^ 

 veri^d over with a thm scarlet pulp. The i*"rench call this tree mombiji batard. Sioajiie 

 fomia it in several places about the C'rawle. 



' Mustard, Bastard ^^^ bastard Mustakd. 



No English Name. MYGINDA. 



l. 4, OR. 3. Tetrandria tetragyma. Nat. or. Rhamm. 

 Cf.N. char. Calyx a four-parted periantJi, very small, permanent; corolla foiw 

 roui.dihh petals, flat, spreading very much ; stamens four awl-shaped filaments, 

 trect, siiorter than the corolla ; with roundish anthers ; the pistil has a roundish 

 germ; styles tour, erect, short; stigmas acute; the pericarp a globular drupe i 

 seed au ovuie acute nut. Two species are natives of Jamaica. 



1. rhacoma. 



Fruticulostnn tenue, foliis ovatis tcnidssime den'icidatis oppositis, ra- 

 cemisalaribus. Browne, p. 145, t. 16, f. I. 



Leaves lanceolate-ovate, obtuse, crenate.; flowers monogynousj stigma four* 

 cleft. 



This is an upright branching shrub, from two to three feet in height, witit an ash* 

 coloured bark; branches sub-divided, even, strict ; leaves small, half an inch in lengtl^, 



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