116 HORTUS JAMAICENSIS. |tEjy'oo 



This generic name is derived from the Greek words for red aod wood.' 

 Gen. char. Calyx, a one-leafed perianth, five-cleft, turbinate i division*, ovate, 

 sharp, very small, withering; corolla five ovate, concave, expanding, petals j- 

 nectary of five scales, emarginate, .upright, coloured, inserted into the base ot 

 the petals ; stamens ten filaments, length of the corolla, at the base connected by 

 a truncated membrane ; anthers heart-shaped ; the pistil has an ovate germ, three 

 filiform styles, distant, length of the stamens ; stigmas obtuse, thickish ; the pe 

 ricarp an ovate drupe, one-celled; seed an oblong nut, obtusely quadrangular. 

 Two species are natives of Jamaica. 



I, AREOLATIM. 



EolHs ellrptkis, Uneis binis longitudinal ibus sub t us not at u ; fasciculis 

 fto.uvi sparsis. Browne, p. 278, t. 3S, f. 2. 



Leaves ob-ovate, mucronate ; branchlets short, rloriferons, scaly. 



Stem shrubby, . even, with long, spreading and somewhat rugged brancb.es ;. leaves-- 

 petioled, alternate, ob-ovate, narrower at the base, entire, veined, sub-glaucous un- 

 derneath, deciduous. Flowers in alternate bundles, on short peduncles, small and" 

 white; petals with claws, inserted into the edge of the segments of the calyx, oblong, 

 convex, entire. Nectareous scales in the throat of the corolla, surrounding the sta- 

 mens, waved about the edge ; filaments, during the time of flowering, connate above 

 the middle, afterwards cut more deeply, awl-shaped and white ; anthers ovate, minute, 

 yellow; germ roundish; styles awl-shaped, spreading very much; stigmas capitate, 

 peltate ; fruit an oblong drupe, resembling that of the berberry, acuminate, scarlet, 

 including an oblong attenuated hard nucleus or nut R. This is a small but a beau- 

 tiful tree ;. the leaves are of an oval form, and marked with two slender longitudinal 

 lines upon the back, which were the utmost limits of that part of the leaf which are ex- 

 posed, while it lay in a folded state. The flowers grow in little clusters, and are very 

 thick upon the branches. The inward bark is of a flesh, colour, and the wood of a red-- 

 dish brown. It is reckoned an excellent timber wood, for the size of the tree, which 

 seldom exceeds sixteen or eighteen feet iu height, and five or six inches in. diameter. 

 Browne. It grows in dry coppices.. 



2. ROTUNDIFOLIUM. ROUND-LEAFED. 



Foliis muioribus subrotundis confertis, sfj/lis brevissimis, ramulis ie~ 

 nuissimis. Browne, p. 278. 



Hound leafed ; styles short; branches slender. 



This tree differs from the foregoing, both in shape and manner of its growth ; but it 

 auswers the essential characters thoroughly. It grows in .the lowlands, like the other, 

 and rises commonly to the height of eighteen or twenty feet. Its leaves are roundish 

 and small, and the branches very slender. Browne. Both these plants blossom iii 

 July and perfect their fruit in August. They are common near Clarendon Cross. ' 



Reed-Mace, See Cat's-Tail. 



Rejjd-Milljet See Panic-Grass. 



Reeds .SVc- Bam boo Panic-Grass Trumpet-Reed Wild-Canf. 



ilUEXIA See Acisanthera, 



RICEh 



