trumpet HORTUS JAMAICENSI& til 



monts, two of the length of tire tul>e, and the other two a little shorter, they are ad- 

 herent three-fourths of their length, and free one-fourth, as they rise from the tuhe 

 they are curbed, and also at their extremity : the stigma is double, and each part ob- 

 tuse, and the spaee between them is commonly filled with something like farina. The 

 fruit is a berry, about as" big. as a boy's marble, globose, soft, smooth, and of a lovely 

 oiange or saffron colour* within it is filled with a soft white pulp, very sweet in taste, 

 and divi led into two cells ; the seeds are kidney-shaped, and placed near the pericarp. 

 The leaves surround the young branches in an alternate or irregular order; they have 

 do pedicel, but are fixed to the stem by a swelling joint, they are narrower near the 

 stem, and inci ise gradually in breadth to two thirds of their length, where they are 

 broadest, thence they decrease in breadth to the extremity, where the}' end in a point, 

 in a word their form is like that ol calabash leaves, tiieir upper part is very claik. 

 green, smooth, and p ilished, with plain reflected margins, marked with a yellowish 

 middle rib, hard!, 1 ble, alternate oblique side reins ; t li ir lower side is of a paler 

 green, and the mi Id e rib only conspicuous. The longest leaves are little more thai* 

 four inches long, nd broad, cf a sweetish bitter taste. The blossoms taste sweet like 

 liquorice, But much interior in degree ; I found it in blossom in the roa i that leach: 

 from Longville to the Chapel, in Clarendon. I transplanted it in blossom in the be- 

 ginning of the year, and it blossomed again in July of the same year. A. il, 



2. U.NBULAT.V. WAVED; 



Leaves lanceolate-ovate, drawn to a point at both ends, petioles very shorr, 

 tube of the corolla curved, border waved. 

 This is a shrubby plant, consisting of divers erect, woody, unbranched stems ; about 

 eighteen inches in height, bearing dusters of leaves upon their summits, hard and firm 

 in substance, in form and size like those of morindo or vaw-weed . amidst which arise 

 the blossoms, of a pale. yellow colour ; in which the rudiments of a fifth stamen rises 

 from the base of the tr.be. The clusters of leaves sometimes resemble tnose of the ca- 

 labash tree. The fruit is bigger than a hazle nut and round. 



See French Oak, Thorn Apple. 



TRUMPET FLOWER, PEACH COLOURED. SOLANDRA. 



Cl. 5, OR. 1. Pcntandriamonogynia. NaT. OR. 



This was so named after the celebrated Dr. Solander, a Swede, and disciple of Lin- 

 oeus. 



Gen. char. Calyx a one-leafed perianth, large, angular, permanent, three-cleft 

 or five-cleft ; segments lanceolate, erect: corolla one-petaled, funnel-form, very, 

 large; tube bell- shaped, ventricose, a little shorter than the calyx; border five- 

 cleft ; segments roundish, waved, patulent : stamens five filaments, filiform, 

 length of the tube, ascending at the top ; anthers obiong, versatile : the pistil has 

 a superior germ, oval; style filiform, longer than the stamens, bent in; stigma 

 obtuse, bifid ; segments ovate ; the pericarp an oval berry, conical at top, smooth, 

 four-celled: seeds very numerous, oblong, nestling. There is only one species, 

 a native of Jamaica, 

 Vol. If. Xl h. rand^ioh*, 



