v>* Tortus jamaicensis." savdbcx 



ish yellow. The whole plant is very salt to the taste, ami is buvneJ for barilla at Car- 

 thagenas ItisverycomnTononallthesaltmarsb.es on the south side of Jamaica. It 

 would be very useful in the manufacture of soap and glass, were such things attended 

 to id this island, as well as the salt-wort before described, the sea-side purslane, am:. 

 many other plants. 



SA^ T D-BOX TREE. HURA: 



Cl. 21, or. 8. Monoecia monodelphia. Nat. or. Tricocca. 



Gfv. char Male calyx Ament from the divarication of the branches, oblong-, 

 ('looping, covered with sessile spreading florets, scales oblong; perianth within 

 each scale of the ament, cylindric, two-leaved, truncate^ very short ; coroife 

 none ; stamen a cylindric fiia'.ient, a little longer than the calyx, peltate at the 

 tip, rigid, below the tip twice or thrice verticilled with tubercles ; anthers two, 

 immersed in each tubercle, oval, bifid. Female flower in the same plant Calyx 

 perianth one-leafed, cylindric, furrowed, truncate, quite entire, closely sur- 

 rounding the germ corolla none ; the pistil has a roundish germ within the calyx ; 

 a cylindric long style; stigma large, funnel-shaped, plano-convex, coloured, 

 twelve-cleft, blunt, equal; pericarp woody, orbiruiate or globular-flatted, torose, 

 with twelve furrows, twelve-celled J cells dissilieirt, crescent-shaped, with an 

 elastic dagger point at the end; seeds solitary, compressed, sub-orbjeulate, large. 

 There is only one species, which is a native of Jamaica; 



CREPITANS. CRACKl.IXC 



Baru.ce fructus c pluribus nucibus avian's. Sloane, v. 2, p. IU6. . 

 Arboreu'm, rgmulis irregulariter tervatis, foliis cordato crenatis 

 rr,'[eris, petiolis bighmdiilis. Browne, g. 351. 

 This vise-, from a spreading root with a soft woody st^tUY. to the height of thirty or 

 forty feet, dividing into many branches,', which abound with a milky juice, and have 

 scars on their back where the leaves have fallen off. The leaves are sometimes eleven 

 inches long and nine inches broad, heart-shaped, of a beautiful green, indented on 

 their edges, having a prominent mid-rib, with several transverse veins, which are al- 

 ternate; they are upon long footstalks. The male flowers come out from, between the 

 leaves, upon foot-stalks three inches long, and are formed into a close spike or column, 

 1\ ing over each oihei; like the scales of fish.: the female flowers are situate at a distance 

 from them, and have a long funnel-shaped tube spreading at the top, where it is cut 

 into twelve or thirteen reflected parts. After the flower the germ swellsj and becomes 

 a round compressed ligneous .capsule, having twelve or thirteen deep furrows, each 

 being a distinct cell,, containing one large, round, compressed, seed. When these 

 pods are ripe, they burst with violence, and throw out their seeds to a considerable 

 ;;:. ince. 



The formation and parts of this tree agree so well, in general, with those of the 

 manchioneal, that I was induced to look upon them as two distinct species of the same 

 genus. The branches are divided alike in both, and the leaves, which stand in the 

 win manner, reflecting a little backwards,from the direction of the-footstalks, are Bjs- 



posed 



