SPaotsh HOUTUS JAMA IC EN SI Si 183' 



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from tiie base to the middle ; anthers incumbent, linear, yellow; jerrn oblong ; style' 

 shorter than the stamens, dichotomous ; stigmas, blunt, yellow. Swarts. 



This grows to be a very large and stately tree. Its wood is of the softness and grain* 

 of elm, whence its name, having many undulated light brown or grey lines in it, mak- 

 ing a pleasant shew, which induced the cabinet-makers to call it prince wood T,iese 

 lines are the interstices between the yearly circles of the tree. The bark js ash co- 

 loured, very smooth, having no asperities The leaves beset the ends of the branches, 

 smooth, and fresh green. The flowers stand several together, of a white then a sulphur 

 colour, and are very odoriferous, continuing on -the tree till the fruit falls oil". When 

 this tree is young it makes good hoops. Stoane. 



This tree grows in many parts of Jamaica, and is generally esteemed as one of the- 

 best timber woods of the island,; it rises to a considerate height, but seldom exceeds 

 twenty or thirty inches in diameter, especially in the lowlands, where it is most com- 

 mon : it is pretty much branched towards the top, and furnished with oblong nervous 

 leaves ; the flowers are very while and grow in great numbers at the ends of tho 

 branches ; but, as the germen grows larger, they fade, ami turn of a d.irk or dirty 

 brown colour, and continue upon the tree until the whole fruit, which seldom grous 

 to a. perfect state, falls off.' Browne. Long says an oil is extracted Ironi this tree, not 

 inferior to Rhodium, having the same scent, use, and virtues. 



YVe have a tree in Jamaica called Spanish elm, which hath a very sweet plea'.mt- 

 smell, almost like a rose. This tree is very common, and known to most inhabitants 

 in Jamaica. The coopers make hoops ol the young ones for sugar hogsheads. The 

 heart of it is a very fine veiny wood, and would be of great use to joiners for cabinet^ 

 "The. oil is nut inferior to rhodium, having the same tue and virtues. Barham, u. j7. 



SPANISH NETTLE. BIDEN*. 



Cl. 19, orc. r. Syngenesia polygamid a quails Nat. or Composite. 

 This generic name was given on account of the sttvis terminating in two teeth, or*" 



Gen cur. Calyx imbricate, erect; corolla sometimes, but seldom, with a flos- 

 cole or two in the ray ; coroliules lunu. rodite ; stamens five; the pistil ha m 

 oblong germ, a simp! , ml two stigmas ; seeds solitary, crowned with t . 



br'more scabrous o.w ns ; i v. Four species, oith.is.jjcn us ar ,^.t,^g 



of Jamaica. 



BIPINNATa? D UffLY pinna tt. 



Stem? and b ran hes ri ' -~ 



TV is plan; grows from on . - T 



feranc .ies, lea> es in thrt -s on 

 acuminate, withdong points, the id 

 peduncles' axillar, . rmin iwsred, 



yellow; calyx.su i-inil teor doubl . 6ut< i ea .. .... 



(ten membranaceou 'o . ; the coroll 'r at .l\ >.u 



two or, th rev b?.i :. I ; re itaci< flat, , , h" 



fcwncd, by which the stick to ahj^ miii^ that-fcttUae* Uuiui. i'lui t , j*a ^ o.., ,-.... v 



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