CfO HORTUS JAMA1CENSIS. TRCMTrf- 



No English Home. TRTXIS. 



Cl. 19 OR .4. Sj/ngenesia polijgamia necessaria. Nat. or. Composite. 

 Gen. char. Common calyx imbricate, ovate; scales eight to ten oblong, acum- 

 inate, convex, almost equal ; outer somewhat keeled, membranaceous at the tip ; 

 compound corolla, numerous hermaphrodite corollets, females fewer ; corollets 

 of the ray trifid ; there is no pericarp, the calyx unchanged, converging ; seeds 

 hairy at the top, without any uovvn ; receptacle chaffy. There is only one species 

 a native of Jamaica. 



TEREBUSTHINACEA. TURPENTINE. 



Leaves ovate, serrulate, hispid, hirsute beneath, flowers corymbed. 



TRUMPET-FLOWER. BRUNFELSIA. 



Cl. 14, or. 2. Didynamia Angiospermia. Nat. or. Personated 



So named after Otto Brunfelsius, who published the first good figures of plants 

 in 1530. 



Gen. char. Calyx a one-leafed perianth, hell-shaped, five-toothed, obtuse, very 

 small, permanent : corolla one-petaled, funnel-form ; tube very long, slightly 

 curved inwards, (waved like an Italic J), border flat, five-cleft, blunt: stamens 

 four very short filaments ; anthers oblong, upright; two a little higher than the 

 others, prominent from the mouth of the tube: the pistil has a roundisb small 

 germ, a filiform style the length of the tube, and a thickish stigma : the pericarp 

 isacapsule, berried on the outside, globular, one-ceHed, two-valved: seeds very 

 manv, compressed, convex on one side, angular at the other, rugged with dots: re- 

 ceptacle fastened to the bottom of the capsule, chaffy ; chaffs coadunate, subulate 

 at the top, separating the seeds. There are two species, both natives of Jamaica, 



1. AMERICANA. AMER'CAN. 



Fruticosa, foliis suivillosis oblongo-ovatis, floribus singularibus. 

 Browne, p. 141. Cutcsbea. 



Leaves elliptic-acuminate; tube of the corolla erect, border entire. 



This is a tree from ten to fifteen feet in height, inhabiting the mountainous parts of 

 Jamaica. The trunk is smooth and even and the branches loose; leaves alternate.', en- 

 tire, smooth, somewhat shining, on cylindnc short petioles, somewhat reflex. Flowers 

 axillary,, terminating, peduncled ; corolla pale yellow, turning white, very sweet 

 scented, having a tube four or five inches in length, st; tiding in a cup, somewhat re- 

 sembling the Marvel of Peru : anthers globular bifid ; those of the upper filaments, 

 together with the stigma close up the aperture of the tube. The fruit is green with a 

 red conceptaclfe. Stearts. This plant is figured in Citrus's Botanical Magazine, 

 No. 393. 



Tiie receptacle of the flower is verv short, and has its base beset with vertical rows 

 bf purple, unequal, linear, hairy, stipules, the upper row is much the longest, reach- 

 ing half the length of the cup. The upper lip of the corolla is divided into two, and 

 the under lip into three, round segments, many equal : the ttuuiens are four fila- 



