HORTUS JAMAICENSIS outs: 



minate, concave, erect, meally; one flower sessile, the other peduncled within the 

 spathe. _ Spathe one-leafed to each flower, sheathing, lanceolate, smooth, ash-co- 

 loured, inclosing the flower. Calyx three- leaved, leaflets lanceolate, concave, smooth, 

 dusky red ; petals three, lanceolate, bine, blunt at the end, almost inclosed by the 

 calyx. Filaments inserted into the base of the corolla, awl-shaped; anthers oblong, 

 yellow; style short and thick; stigma obtuse, simple; capsule long, round, awl- 

 shaped, three-cornered, three-celled, three- valved; valves revolute ; seed-down ca- 

 pillary. Native of Jamaica, on old rotten trees. Ac'. The fibres of this plant are in- 

 terwove* and matted into each other, and wrapped about the arms and branches of 

 trees ; from which, though sometimes it be on the under side of the bough, rise straight 

 tip several leaves, the under parts whereof inclose one another like bulbs, making, in 

 their inward concave sides, a cavity to hold rain. The leaves always look as if covered 

 with hoar-frost j the flower is purple. 



Sec Wild Pine. 



OLD WOMAN'S BITTER. CITHARFXYLON. 



Cl. 14, or. 2. Didynamia gymnospermia. Nat. or. Personatx* 

 Gen. char. See Fiddlewood, p. 291. 



CINEREUM. ASH-COI.OURED. 



Fruticosum, cortice einereo, fofiis obtongo ovatis oppositis, peliolls 

 marginatis pedatis, Jloribus spicalis,fructu majori. Browne, p. 2b*. 

 Branches round ; calyxes toothed. 

 This is a tree rising with a round upright trunk, not more than a foot in diameter, to 

 the height of fifteen or twenty feet, with a handsome branching head. Leaves oblong- 

 oval, acuminate at both ends, entire, shining, commonly opposite, but sometimes al- 

 ternate, and frequently three together, of different sizes, but mostly above half a foot 

 in length. The petioles have often a few glandular holes on each side above, exuding 

 honey drops in the younger ones : racemes terminating, dense, quite simple, pendu- 

 lous, nine or ten inches long; flowers small, numerous, odoriferous, on short pedi- 

 cels; corolla white; berries succulent, shining, soft, roundish, first green, next red r 

 and finally black. Sw. Browne says that it rises eight or nine feet; and is common in 

 all the savannas of Jamaica ; that the veins of the leaves, and all the tender buds, art 

 of a brown colour ; die bark of the trunk and lower branches of a whitish ash-colour, 

 and is called old woman' 1 s bitter. The French call it bois cotelet. 



See Fiddlewood. 

 Oleander See South Ska Rose.. 



OLIVE-BARK-TREE. BUCIDA. 



Cl. 10, or. l. Decandria monogynia, Nat. or. Holoraceae. 



Brown* 



