m IIORTUS JAMAICENSIS. snace-gouito 



with industry and the art of man, be perfected much more, to a considerable profit in. 

 making fine stuffs of it, and merchandizing in it. Barkam, p. 174. 



See Penguin and Pine-apple. 



SILVER- WOOD-TREE. PETAT.OMA. 



Cl. 10, OR.. 1 Decandria monogynla. Nat. op. 

 Gen. char. Calyx a one-leafed perianth, goblet shaped, five-toothed, superior, 

 permanent, teeth sharp, almost upright ; corolla five petals, oblong, spreading, 

 each inserted by the claw between the teeth of the calyx, deciduous; stamens ten 

 filaments, placed on the margin of the calyx, longer than the corolla ; anthers ob- 

 long, incumbent; the pistil lias an ovate genu in the bottom of the calyx, along 

 awl-shaped style, and a simple acute stigma ; the pericarp a globular-fleshy berry, 

 crowned with the calyx, -one-ceiled ; seeds solitary, or in fours, angular en one 

 pide, convex on the other. One species is a native of Jamaica, which was trans- 

 ferred by Swartz from the genus myrtus, on account of the form of the calyx, and 

 the insertion of the stamens. 



MYRTILLOIDES. MYRTI.E-I.IEE. 



3/i/rti foliio arbor cortice argehtea. foliis obi \ lalioribus n- 



cuminatis, inndovis, ezfdverso'sitis, flore pentap pah de al- 



bican te. Sloane, v 2, p. 73, t. 187, f. 3. 



Peduncle? solitary, one-flowered; leaves sub-sessile, ovate, attenuated, oblique 

 at the base. 

 Trunk straight, twenty feet high, no thicker than the human leg ; the bark almost 

 smooth, grey, with some. very wl nee its name- ot silver- wood. Leaves 



in pairs, smooth, very thin, yellowish e.reen, an inch long, and almost as broad at the 

 ba ', entire, on short petioles. Flowers axillary, e, on crooked pedicels ; 



the wood is hard, tough, heavy, and good for looms, rs, or rods 



for scouring guns. Sloane. Browne makes this plant th - same as h d iphus, 



or silver-tree, which, he says, is commonly called I by the negro< . -, 



notbe, as his plant has tetrapetalous .flowers, anil its characters do noi 

 .respects with the plant described by Sloane and bwartz, which is a'i liuje tree, 



and sometimes only eight stamens are found in the Bower. The ripe fruit is ' nt 



an 1 filled with a fragrant balsamic juice, containing frequently only one . ^q, or 



.oblong nut, turbinated at one end. It blossoms in April and .May. 



SNAKE-GOURD. 3TUCHOSANTHES. 



Cl.. 21, or. <?. Monaecia syngenesis. N lt. or. Cucurlitacetc. 



This generic name is derived from two Greek words, signifying hair and a flower. 

 Jrn. guar. Male calyx aone leafed perianth, five-toothed ; corolla five-parted, 

 (ciliate, with'long branching hairs j stamens three filaments; anthers a cylin Iric 



erect 



