*6 HORTUS JAMAICENSIS? feH 



-Th<? peduncles are axillary, flowers yellow. It grows on the banks of rivers, and in 

 low marshy lands, creeping to a considerable distance. Browne notices another species 

 of this genus, hirsutum Join's ablongis subserratis obtusis, Jtonbus minoribus, pedum?- - 

 sulis geminatis alariius, and botii as species of the bupthcumum. 



Ox-Eye Bean See House-Eye Bean. 

 QiTER Green See Seaweeds. 



Pajomirioba See Stftncms-WEED* 

 Palma Chbisti See Oil-Nut. 



PALM-OIL-TREE. ELAAIS. 



Cl. 25. Dioecia hexariiria. NaT. OR. Palm<t. 



This name is derived from the Greek word for an olive, on account of the oiliness o? 

 die nuts! 



Gen. CHAR Male calyx- a six-leaved perianth ; leaflets concave, upright; corolla. 

 one-petaled, six-cleft, upright; sharp, length of the calyx ; stamens six filaments, 

 subulate, length of tne corolla; anthers oblon<r, sharp. Female calyx as in the 

 male; corolla six-petaled ; pistil an ovate germ ; stigmas three, reflex; pericarp 

 a fibrous drupe, ovate, somewhat angulated, oily ; seed an ovate nut, obscurely 

 three-sided,, with three holes, three-valved, one-celled. 



GUINEENSIS, GUINEA. 



Palma, foliorum pediculis spinosis, fructu pruniforme, lufeo, olemol 

 Sloane, v. 2, p. 113, t. 214. 



Trunk erect, irregular from the stipes of the fronds, which continue a long time, 

 and are longer the nearer they are to the frond ; fronds pinnate, with a rigid rib fifteen 

 feet in length, for four feet below the leaflets armed at the edge on both sides with 

 awl -shaped spines, the uppermost hooked and bowed back, the middle ones straight, 

 the lowest patulous, and twice as long as the rest : leaflets sword-shaped, a?ute, un- 

 armed, folded back at the base, a foot and a half long, and an inch broad. After these 

 have fallen the rigid rib remains sometime, anil resembles a spine. Soadix axillary, a. 

 foot long, much compressed, erect, divided into fifty branchlets, five inches long, 

 erect, the thickness of a finger, compactly spiked, imbricate, and irregularly disposed, 

 with triangular acuminate tips. The branchlets, except the tip, are whollv covered 

 with small flowers, each having a small roundish bracte at the base, the lowest on each 

 kranchlet being much larger than the others, with a kuiceoiate point. 1 he flowers- 

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