trefoil HORTUS JAMAICENS1S. 37 



the top of the foliage the tree is full twenty-five feet high, and, when in bloom, has a 

 very fine appearance, the flowers being s > abun lant as almost to hide the leaves. 

 See Inm n Fig and Melon Thistle. 



Traveller's Joy Sec Virgin's Bower. 



TREE ATROPA. ATROPA. 



Cl. 5, or. 1, P'entandria monogyma, Nat. or. Luridoe. 



EN. char. Calyx a one-leafed perianth, five-parted, gibbous; divisions acute, 

 permanent; corolla one-petaled bell-shaped; five subulate .listant filaments;: 

 anthers thickish : the pistil has a semi-ovate germ ^ a filiform style, and headed 

 stigma ; the pericarp a globular two-celled berry. One species is a native of 

 Jamaica. 



ARBORESGEKS. TREE. 



Stem shrubby, peduncles crowded, corolla revolute, leaves oblong. 



This is a small tree, orrather a shrub. Stem smooth, branched, branches subdivi- 

 ded, round, scarred, rugged ; leaves petioled, alternate, in tufts towards the ends of the 

 branches, lanceolate-ovate, acute, entire, nerved, wrinkled beneath, soft, and hoary, 

 of a dark colour. Flowers peduncled, heaped, scattered on the branches below the 

 leaves, white, sweet-scented, noddding ; peduncles numerous (thirty or forty) long, 

 filiform, one-flowered, whitish, smooth; calyx short, tubular, four or five cleft, 

 whitish ; corolla somewhat bell-shaped, tube narrower at the base, swelling at the top ; 

 border four or five cleft, with equal, ovate, blunt, reflex, segments ; filaments fuur 

 or five, equal, twice as long as the corolla; anthers ovate, upright,, two-valved. ; 

 germ roundish, superior; berry roundish, soft, black, containing many seeds. Na- 

 tive of Jamaica, on temperate mountains, flowering in Autumn ; the berries commonly 

 full of some worm. Szuartz. 



TREFOIL. STYLOSANTHES. 



Cl. 17, or. 2. Diadelphia decandria. Nat. or. Papilionacece. 



Gen char. Calyx a- one-leafed perianth, tubular, lohg, half five-cleft, corolli- 

 ferous ; corolla papilionaceous; germ below the coroila; legume short, thin, 

 shaped like a scymitar. Two species are natives of Jamaica, separated from the 

 genus hedysarum (see French honeysuckle) by Swartz, on account of the coroiife- 

 fous calyx and inferior germ. 



1. procumbens. procumbent. 



Asnanis non spinosa minor, glabra, procumbens, flore luteo. Sloane, 

 v. l, p. 187, t. 119, f. 2. Procumbens, foliis ciliatis nervosis ; si- 

 liculis monospermibus, acuminatis quinquestriatis. Browne, p. 298. 



Leaves ternate acuminate, linear, smooth, spikes many-flowered, stem pro- 

 cumbent. 



Root 



