0*8 KORTUS JAMA I C EN SIS. tkvmfm 



6RANBIFL0RA. GREAT-FLOWERED. 



This is a small tree, from twelve to twenty feet high, with a branching trunk, and a 

 -cloven ash-coloured bark, green within. The wood is spongy. The branches are 

 loose, be it down, divaricating, verv long. The leaves are in clusters towards the 

 ends of the branchlets, ob-ovate, oblong, acute, quite entire, smooth, thickish, and 

 .'Somewhat succulent, from three to seven inches in length, on round smooth petioles, 

 five times shorter than the leaves. Flowers terminating, subsessile, subsoiitary, very 

 large; peduncles very short, thick, round, smooth, one flowered; calyx fiom iwo to 

 three inches long, sub-qumquefid, as the fruit ripens bursting to the base into tirree or 

 five ii . .;:;; tube of the corolla greenish white ; border ten times shorter than the 

 tubi patulous, pa;e Hesh colour, somewhat irregnlar veined ; the opening four inches 

 in di neter ; segments wide, very bluntly waved, crenulate at the edge, almost equal, 

 1 i per ones being scarcely larger. Filaments inserted into the base of the tube, 

 low; anthers large, ferruginous ; germ smooth ; style ascending at the top and yel- 

 low lobes of the -stigma roundish, green; berry often the size of a hen's egg, but 

 icker below, acuminate with the permanent base of the stvle, smooth, and even, 

 white, pulpv, an 1 red within ; seeds black ; the very handsome sweet (lowers appear 

 in the r,. tntl i of January and February ; the fruit ripens in August, arid is i i i sweet 

 .. , ci I ',.. ur, Native of Jamaica on very large trees, or in the fissures of rocks, 

 scandent, and sab-parasitical, Swartz. 



TRUMPET-REED. ZIZAN1A. 



Cl. 21, on. 6. \fonrccia Itexandria- NaT. OR. Gramin<e. 



Gen char. No male calyx; corolla a two- valved glume, aunless, mixed with the 

 females: nectary two- leaved ; stamens six capillary, with linear bifid anthers. 

 Female flowers in the same panicle, bigger, no calj x ; corolla a two-valued glume, 

 cowled, awned ; stamens six minute filaments, with small barren anthers; the 

 pistil has an ovate germ, two vert small style-, and feathered eminent stigmas.; 

 there is no pericarp ; glumes closed, permanent ; seed single, oblong, equal, 

 shining; naked. Two species are natives of Jamaica. 



1. AQUATIC >. WATER. 



Arundo dlta gracilis, folih c viridi ceruleis, locustis minoribus-. 

 Sloane, v. 1, p 110, t. 67. Panicula effusa. Browne, p. 340. 



Panicles racemed below, spiked above. 

 This iits forth roots from even joint, sending up round hollow culms, pointed a* 

 evc ., inches distant, of a clay colour, and about the bigness of ones little finger. 



heath df the leaf covers'thi whole intenfode, and the leaf is near half an inch 

 br a.l at the base, tapers for more than a loot in length, and ends in a point of a bluish 

 green colour. The stalks rise fourteen . fifteen feet high ; thetopis a panicle of a 

 foot in length, brafiched ' into man; rough s;)ikes. It grows plentifully in th< la- 

 goon- ah tut the Fern, i ' i Shane. If tins be the same plant as the 

 North ' nericaii one, i ornvan excellent article of food, and are a good sub- 

 stitute for nee, and for this reason it is called wild rice iu America. 



2, PA1.USTRVS, 



