sea-side HO'TITU'S JAMAICENSPS 15S 



roundish depressed anthers ; germ ovate ; style erect*; longer than the stamen-, three- 

 parted ; stigmas reflexed, entire, obtuse, yellow; capsule three-cel[ed, cells tv. >. 

 valved, two-seeded; seeds ovate, flat on one side. In the females, stigmas trifid and 

 rudiments of stamens fastened to the germ. Germ, style, and capsule, as in the 

 others. Native of maritime calcareous pocks. fe')7s. 



This is remarkable for producing two kinds of branches, the first are round, 1-. 

 in colour, like the trunk ; and flatted ones which are smooth and shining, with margins 

 slightly dente ! ; from which, when the plants are young, about four inches high, c ome 

 tut;) the leaves, one from each dent, sup:)')! ted by very short pedicels'; they arc about 

 tWO-tenth.s of an inch long, rounded form, of a pale green colour, and their sub- 



nee furnished with a middle rib and alternate veins; as the plant advances, these 

 leaves drop off, and in time the flowers are produced from the crena of the same, of 

 n like foliated branches. 



2. AKGUST"JOT-IA. NARROW-LEAVrn. 



IWiis migustis longioribus levissime crenatis, quandoque confettis. 

 Browne, p. 188. 



Leaves pinnate, linear-lanceolate, marked with lines, erenate; (lowers pedun- 

 cled, hermaphrodite. 



This shrub grows much the same size as the other; its leaves come out without any 

 order; the flowers arc produced on the edges, towards the upper part especially, 

 where they are placed very closely, and, with the shining green colour of the leaves, 

 make a very beautiful appearance. It also grows on rocks near the sea. Swartz noti- 

 ces a variety, linearis, with linear leaves, marked with lines and white flowers. 



3. ARBUSCULA. LITTLE-TREE. 



Leaves pinnate, lanceolate-acuminate, sub-crenate, coriaceous; flowers pe- 



duncled, three-stamened, monoecious, 



This is a most elegant evergreen plant, with a woody stem, about three feet high', 



1 verv simple and upright, and about a fingers thickness ; bark ash-coloured, marked 



with tubercles from the fallen leaves ; leaTes alternately spreading on the top of the 



plant, strong, smooth, foot-stalked, and pinnated with five or six leaflets, without art 



dd one, all lanceolate, serrulated, and coriaceous ; the younger ones often purplish. 



From the notchihgs of the leaves proceed slender footstalks of half an inch in length, 



each bearing a single flower, which is small and of a pale sulphur colour. Tacquin. 



4. MONTANA. MOUNTAIN. 



Leaves distich, broad-lanceolate, gasli-crenate, branches ancipital at the top } 

 flowers sessile. Sw. 



Sea-side Ox-eye. See Ox-eye. 



SEA-SIDE PLUM-TREE XIMENIA. 



Cl.8, or. l. Octandria monogynia Nat. or. Aurantia. 



So named after Ximenes, a Spaniard, author of a work on the Animals and Plants of 

 New Spain, 161 S. 



U 2 Gr. 



