g H O TIT U S J A M A 1 C E N S I S. potsii?0HA-nats 



41. DISSECTUM. CUT. 



Adiantum nigrum, ramosum, maximum, foiiis sen pmnulis, obtusis. 

 varie'sed pulckerrime sinuatis el dentatis. Sioane, v. l, p. 96, t. 

 57, f. !, 2. 



Front! quadri-pinnatifid, smoothish ; pinnules ovate, blunt, gash - serrate ; fruc- 

 tifications solitary ; branches and branchlets pubescent. 



This rises four or five feet high, having a smooth reddish brown shining stalk, the 



f a finger, divided into alternate branches. Pi nrrales thick, Want, variously si- 



nu ted, or deeply cur, especially on 'heir upper sides, and indented about their round 



nl a dark green colour, and shining on the upper side. Fructifications in fcrru- 



is spots, esp :ci illy near the greater sinuations of the edges. It grows on Mount 



Diablo very plentifully. Sioane. 



42. EFF0SUM. SPREADING. 



Adianfhum nigrum ramosum maximum foiiis sen pinnidis temiibus 



Sloa*, v. !, p. 97, t. .57, f. 4. 



Frond quinque-pinnatifid, smoothish, membranaceous; pinnules acute, finely 

 serrate ; rachis of the branches margined. 

 This rises three feet high, having a reddish smooth stalk, divided at one foot and a 

 hair" from the ground into several branches, having their twigs, and they their pinnules 

 after the manner of adianthum nigrum, only they are longer, thinner, and sharper at 

 the point, having there a very little prickle, as well as others much smaller along their 

 margin, where are no incisures, or very. small ones. It is sometimes of a pale grean 

 colour, with almost pellucid thin leaves. Mar(j/n. 



See Ferns. 



POMEGRANATE-TREE. PUNICA. 



Ci.. 12, or. l. Icosandria monogynia. Nat. or. Pomacea-. 

 Gen. char. Calyx a one-leafed, bell-shaped, five-cleft, acute, coloured, perma- 

 nent, perianth ; corolla five roundish petals, from upright spreading, inserted 

 into the calyx ; stamens numerous filaments, shorter than the calyx, and inserted 

 into it ; anthers somewhat oblong ; the pistil has an inferior germ, a simple style, 

 the length of the stamens, and beaded stigma ; the pericarp a sub-globular pome, 

 large, crowned with the calyx, divided into two chambers by a transverse parti- 

 tion, the upper having about nine, the lower about three, cells; partitions mem- 

 branaceous ; seeds very many, angular, succulent. Receptacle fleshy, dividing 

 each cell of the pericarp two ways. There are two species, both generally culti- 

 vated in Jamaica. 



1. GRANATt GRAINED. 



Mains punica saliva a/iis simplici fiorc. Sioane, v. 2, p. 163. Fru* 

 ticosa major, ramulis erassionluts erectis. Browne, p. 239. 



Leaves lanceolate ; stem arboreous. 

 Is tree rises with a woody stem eighteen or twenty feet high, sending out branches 



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