1LS HORTUS JAMAICENSIS. -*ws 



No English Name. RAUWGLFIA. 



Cl. 5, or. 1. Ptntandris vionogynia. Nat. or. Contort*. 



So named in honour of Leonhard Rauwolif, physician in Augsburg, who published 

 his travels in 1583. 



G]s. char. Calyx a five-toothed, very small permanent perianth; corolla one- 

 petaled, funnel-forni ; tube cylindrical, globular at the base, border five-parted, 

 fiat; segments roundish, emarginate; stamens five filaments, shorter tiian the 

 tube, with erect, simple, acute, anthers ; the pistil has a roundish germ, very 

 short style, and capitate stigma; pericarp a sub-globular drupe, one-celled, with 

 a groove on one side : seed two nuts, convex at the base, attenuated at the top, 

 compressed, two-celled. One species is a native of.Jarnaica. 



CAKF.SCEKS. HOARY. 



Sohnnfructufrutkosa,foliis hiurinis oblongis integris subtus hirsutism 

 /tore minore purpurea. Sloane, v. 2, p. 107, t. 133, f. 1, & t. 

 211, f. 1. Fruticosafoliis verticillatis tenuissime villosis. Browne, 

 p. 189. 

 Leaves in fours, oblong-ovate, acuminate, pubescent; lowers terminating and 

 axillary. 

 This is an upright shrub, the whole of it milky, from afoot to eight feet in height, 

 with all the parts ol a coi -responding size, according to soil and situation ; the younger 

 tranches sub-tomentose. Leaves in fours, ob-ovate, attenuated at the base, acute, 

 wrinkled, tomrmo.se underneath, quite entire, the two nearest longer than the other 

 two ; petioles hirsute, round. Common peduncles branched, terminating in fours. 

 Flowers reddish, small, without scent ; calyx five-leaved, leaflets lanceolate ; segments 

 of the corolla squared, emarginate, scarcely oblique ; hairs in the throat n hout order; 

 drupe ohsoletely bifid, first red, then dark coloured; nuts wrinkled, flat on one side, 

 convex on tne other, two-celled; kernels solitary, seldom more in a nut, one of the 

 cells becoming abomve. Jact/uin. The berries are somewhat bigger than a common 

 pea, of a c-( impressed globose form, and, when bruised, they emit a very deep blue 

 thick juice, yvhich tinges, the fingers like indigo. The tube of the flower swells at both 

 ends," and n;. i ioas in the middle. Browne says this shrub is very common in the sa- 

 vannas about the town of;Kingston, berries small, black, and succulent; the leaves 

 grow in a verticillaied oider, and are beautifully covered with a light down, which is 

 hardly perceptible to the naked eye. The whole shrub is full of milk, of a deleterious 

 nature. 



RED-BEAD-TREE. SOPHORA. 



Ct.. 10, or. 1. Decandria. monogynia. Nat. or. Papilionace*. 

 Gen. char. Calyx a one-leafed perianth, five-ttoothed, gibbous above ; corona 

 papilionaceous, five-petaled ; standard oblong, wings oblong, the length of the 



standard,, 



