%jQ2 II n 1 I S J A M .\ I C E K S 13. m enema 



pubescent, .black, with a blue juice ; seeds hemi-spherical, grooved and striated. It 

 fio.ivers the whole year, and is common in Jamaica and other West India islands. Su\ 



5. MAHG1NATA. MABGINKB. 



Fruticosum JJoliis / lumbeis ovalo a cum. nulls, floribus luxe racemosis. 

 Browne, p. 161. P. 6. 



Stipules entire, acuminate, deciduous; leaves lanceolate- ovate, acute, carti- 

 laginous bristly at the end ; panicle loose. 



This differs from the others in the leave-;, which are ob-ovate, ^acuminate, cartila- 

 ginous at the edge, and furnished with many minute bristles, nerved and veined, dark 

 green and sfcining above, ''beneath pale and ; iucous, on roundish petioles. 



it giows in woods in the southern parts or Jamaica, flowering in sp;-ing. Sic. 



6. ASUTJCA. ASIAT.C. 



Fruticuiosum, fuhis amplioribus oralis stipulis rigitlis interpositis, 

 ramulis crassioribus, racemis umbellulatis, suslentacuUs Jernalo~ 

 tcr nulls. Biowne, p 160. P. 2, t. 17, f. 2. 



Stipules emarginate ; leaves lanceolaU-uvate. 



This is a native of both East and West Indies, and Gartner asserts that the fruit <sf 

 the Jamaica plant is as like to that of Ceylon as one egg is to another. He thus de- 

 scribes it: berry small, ovate-globular, crowned with a snort five-toothed calvx, 

 marked with ten longitudinal deep grooves, two-celled ; coriaceous when ripe, dry, 

 bi-partite, of a light bay, inclining to straw- colour. In each cell one seed, fastened 

 to the bottom of it, flattish on one side, wrinkled transversely, and having a raised 

 line alongsthe middle ; convex on the other side, with three large dorsal grooves, and 

 two smaller marginal ones, dark-coloured. Gaertner makes Browne's second psj/cotro-- 

 phum this species, Swartz attributes it to the cttrijoita. 



7. CftOCEA. -S.iFntON. 



Fruticosum foliis o-.alis venosis, stipulis biden talis, racemis tcrmim- 

 libus croceis Browne, p. 160, t. 13, f. 1, 2. 



Stipules two-toothed ; leaves ovate-acute, nerved; panicles erect, and pedun- 

 cles saffron-coloured. 



..This is distinguished by the leaves being very much veined, and the panicles saffroa- 

 Coloured. Sw. 



8. PAVETTA. 



Ceraso forte ajfinis arbor racetnosa, foliis laurinis ex adverso nascenti- 

 Jtus subtus albicautibus, /tore pcntapetaloide. Sloane, v. 2, p. 96, 

 t. 1S9, f. 4, & t. 202, f. 2. 



Stipules subulate, deciduous ; branches panicled, brachiate, trichotornous-; 

 tube of the corolla long ; segments patent. 

 The branches have a whitish striated, smooth bark, under which was a white solid 

 wood. Leaves opposite, ou short pedicels, ovate-acuminate, three inches long and 

 half as broad, smooth, dark green above, whitish below. Peduncles at the top of die 

 Ranches; racemes many-flowered, umbel fashion. Berries always in clusters, tw 

 fbfetiier, of a deep blue colour, containing one hard roand seed. Sloane. 



9. OUGLSOSA, 



