1-6 II OUT US JAMATCENSIS. .-rose 



TKINERV1A. THREE-NERVED. 



Fi-uiicosa ; foliis ellipticis, trin-erviis, nitidis ; ftoribus lateral ibits. 

 Browne, p. 323, t. 33. 

 Two cah-cled ; leaves three- nerved. 



Leaves oblong-ovate, petioJed, quite entire, coriaceous, opposite; the three nerves 

 underneath protuberant, blackish. Flowers opposite, solitary. 



This vegetable is certainly one of. the most beautiful productions of America. It is 

 but a weakly plant at first, and supports itself for a time by the help of some neighbour- 

 ing shrub or tree ; but it grows.gradually more robust, and, at length, acquires a pretty 

 moderate stem, which divides into a thousand weakly declining branches, well supplied 

 with beautiful rosy blossoms on all sides, that give it a most pleasing appearance in the 

 season. 



It is chiefly found in oal,r moist, and shady, places, and grows generally to the 

 height of ten or fourteen feet ; but rises always higher when -it remains a climber, in 

 which state it continues sometime. It thrives best on the sides of ponds or rivulets, 

 an tiiose that would choose to have it flourish in their gardens, where it must naturally 

 make a very elegant appearance, ought to supply it with some support while it con- 

 .; young and weakly. It is called Blakea, after Air. Martin Blake, of Antigua, a 

 rgyt at promoter of every sort of useful knowledge, and a gentleman to whose friendship 

 the Natural History of Jamaica chiefly owes its early appearance. Browne's Jamaica. 



The petaia of the flower have an agreeable acid taste, hence some have called thie 

 ]daiit the sorrel rose. 



" I have always taken the twelve triangulated bodies, supported by the stamens in 

 this flower, to be anthers ; but having discovered an uncommon appearance upon the 

 upper part of some of these supposed anthers with my naked eye, it induced me to 

 look at it with a hand microscope, when I perceived that the upper part or coat of some 

 .of these, being abraded by some accident, displayed two -small anthers, and that these 

 bodies ought rather to be denominated nectaxeous glands than anthers, on the summit 

 of the other glands that were uot abraded ; I could also plainly perceive the tumid an- 

 thers replete with yellow farina, and on these, as well as the abraded ones, I saw two 

 small holes or punctures on the interior side of each angle of the glands, facing the 

 style, immediately before the inner angle ; and, perceiving a furrow at the hinder part 

 of each gland, with a pir. 1 found I could easily divide each gland into two equal parts, 

 which were connected above, where each division had an hollow or excavated part for 

 Che reception of one anther, which was" recumbent and fixed; the lower part of each, 

 glandular division was hollow, monocapsular, .and empty." A Robinson. 



ROSE APPLE. EUGENIA. 



Cl. 12, OR. l.Icosandria monogynia. Nat. or. Ilesperide/e. 

 This was so named after Prince Eugene of Savoy, who was a great promoter of 

 botany. 



jGen. char. Calyx a one-leafed perianth, superior, elevated in the middle into a 

 sub-villose little ball, four-parted ; divisions oblong, obtuse, concave, permanent ; 



corolla 



