30 HO'RTUS JAMAICENS1S. nutmeg 



prickly. Leaves in pairs, alternate, on very short petioles, wcdged.at the hasp, widen- 

 ing towards the upper part, angular, (but the angles so blunt as to be sometimes obli- 

 terated) sharp at the top, entire at the edge, .scarcely rep ml, nerved, toraenfose, an-J 

 somewhat rugged on both sides, whiter beneath, and. the mid-rib or rachis thero 

 prickly; prickles stout, short, reflexcd, pale. Racemes lateral, much-shorter than 

 the-leaves, simple, many- flowered ; flowers pedicelled, sub-cymed; pedicels length 

 of the raceme, crowded in two. rows, filiform, one-flowered, loose, tomentose, prickly; 

 calyx, minute, prickly; corolla small, pale bLue or white, with .the segments reilexed, 

 and tomentose without. Berry roundish, fir.^t green, veined with black, but wholly 

 black when ripe, smooth, having a dot at the top, size of a red currant. Native of 

 Jamaica in waste places. Sie.- 



5. HAVANENSE. HAVANNA. 



Solamim frulicosum bacciferum spinosum, flare ccernleo. . Sloane, .v* 

 1, p. 236, t. 145, f. 3. 



Stem unarmed, frutescent; leaves oblong-lanceolate, quite entire, shining; 

 racemes axillary. 



Stem shrubby, three or four feet high, with upright, round, smooth,, branches ; 

 leave:! alternate, pefioleu, oblong, wedged at the base, with a short blunt tip, entire, 

 nerved, smooth on both sides, pale beneath, thicker; racemes terminating, solitary, 

 containing from four to seven flowers ;. peduncles on -flowered, short; calyx parted 

 halfway; segments oblong, permanent, white at the edge ; corolla biggish, blue, the 

 border half five-cleft and spreading, the segments wide and plaited; filaments very 

 short; anthers converging, yellow, having two pores at the top. Sw. 



SiTRISTE. DULL. 



Stem- unarmed, frutescent; leaves lanceolale-oblong, sub- repnnd, smooth ; 

 racemes sub-cymed. 



This is an upright shrub; eight feet high, and not handsome ; leaves acute, dark 

 green, petioled, alternate, seven or eight inches long; racemes lateral, thick,.an inch 

 and half long, simple, or bifid, waited with the falling off of the pedicels that first 

 tome out ; flowers small, white, forming a sort of cyme; berries globular, of a dirty 

 yellow colour. 



See Gai.ai.ij, Branched Canker-Berry Egg-Pi,ant Potatoes Tomatos-~ 



Turkey-Berries. 



NUTMEG, AMERICAN. ANXONA. 



l. 13, or. 7, Pohjandria polygyria. Nat. or. Coadnunata: 

 Gen. char. See Alligator-Apple, p. 11. 



MYR1ST1CA. NUTMEG. 



This singular tree is said to have been brought from South America, and firstplanted 

 at the Retreat estate, in Clarendon : it is noticed in Long's History, but does not ap- 

 pear to have been much cultivated since his time; there are two fine plant: in the 



hotani* 



