.MYRTLES HORTUS JAMAICENSIS. S37 



opposite, stiffish, scarcely nerved, smooth, somewhat shining, on very short petioles. 

 Flowers in small racemes, very minute, red ; racemelets or peduncles two or tliree- 

 flowcreJ, axiiiarv, shorter than the leaves. Calyx fonr-cleft, very shortly tubular, red 

 coloured at bottom; corolla deeply four-parted, sub-rotate, whitish-red; segments 

 ovate, miiiute, fringed at the edge ; filaments from the base of the corolla, between 

 the segments of it, bent in above the tube ; anthers simple, very minute; germ ovate, 

 "style awi-shaped, undivided, the length of the tube ; stigma four-cleft ; drupe round- 

 isii, the size of a small currant, scarlet, shining; containing a spherical one- seeded 

 nut : native of Jamaica on the western sandy coasts, flowering in summer. S':r. 

 Browne says hefounu itui the woods below Martlia-Brie River, growing among rocks, 

 thi-ee or four feet high. 



2. LATIFOLU. BROAD-LEAVED. 



Leaves elliptic, crenulate, sub-coriaceous ; stigmas two to Tour, sessile. 



This is a branching shiub, three or four feet in height; branches scattered, foui'- 

 cornered, smooth ; leaves opposite, oblong, blunt, remotely notched, veined, very 

 smooth, rigid, on short petioles ; peduncles shorter than ilie leaves, axillary, few- 

 flowered ; pedicels one-flowered ; flowers very small, whitish. Corolla with a very 

 short tube; border spreading, four-parted; parts oblong, blunt, fiat, reflex, entire; 

 'filaments in tiie divisions of the corolla, the length of the border; anthers roundish ; 

 germ globular; no style; stigmas sessile, globular; drupe globulai", cpntaining aa 

 -oblong, bonj, wrinkled, nut. Sw. 



MYRTLES. MYRTUS. 



fx. 12, OR. 5. Icosandria mono^ynta. Nat. or. HcaperidiS. 

 Gex. THAR. See Bayberry, p. 15. Besides those described under their English 

 tiainc's, the following species are also natives of Jamaica : 



l.BIFLORA. TWO-FLOWERED. 



'Frutkosui, foliis lanceolatis opposifis, florihus geminatis aluribus.^ 

 Brov^ne, p. 248, t. 25, f. 3. Caryophyllas 3. 



Peduncles two-flowered ; leaves lanceolate. 

 This beautiful siuab rises to the height of eight or ten feet, sending out many oppo- 

 site branches, covered with a grey bark ; leaves shorter and rounder at the points, 

 si.'oothir, and of a firmer texture than those of the pimenta. The Howefs come out 

 f, mi the sides of the branches between the leaves, on slender footstalks, about an inch 

 ii. engih, iwo generally from the same point ; berries round, of a brighter colour than 

 tue pimenta, but neither leaves nor fruit have its aromatic flavour, 



2. AI.PINA. ALPI.N'E. 



Peduncles soHtarv, terminating, one-flowered, very short; leaves ovate j 

 branciiie.s in fours, fasiigiaie ; stem arboreous. 9ry^ ' 



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